One of the great tragedies of our time is that in our desperate incapacity to cope with the complexities of our world, we oversimplify every issue and reduce it to a neat ideological formula. Doubtless we have to do something in order to grasp things quickly and effectively. But unfortunately, this “quick and effective grasp” too often turns out to be no grasp at all or only a grasp on a shadow. The ideological formulas for which we are willing to tolerate and even to provoke the destruction of entire nations may one day reveal themselves to have been the most complete deceptions. Already, in
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