How to live in a world like this? To advance in a career, one had to accept the rules of the game. One had to choose hypocrisy over truth, opportunism over principles, cunning and intrigue over straightforwardness, and shallowness over greatness. One had to accept the fate of a nobody, prostitute one’s ideals and principles, hopelessly bite the tongue and secretly clench the fist, pander to the fools and canailles, and start believing that hypocrisy, intrigue, and money would dictate everything forever. And only repeat : get rich, get rich, get rich!
However, that is not enough : accepting the divine mission of money and participating in the intrigues and villainy of the epoch, it was necessary also to turn one’s back to the world of those excluded, harmed, and degraded. And one had to tremble with fear awaiting the moment when all those harmed and degraded would set out toward another Bastille to shout out : “Enough!”
The author of this book is a political dissident and journalist in Poland. This book is mainly about French Revolution and post World War II political scenario.
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