Thrift, the capitalist economics of family life. I mean that a world in which all things seem possible can still harbour the illusion of being a world of many dimensions. All it had left was a vast nostalgia. In the act of faith, the unitary societies of tribal and feudal times possessed a qualitative element of myth and mystification which was of major importance. But it didn't work.
Democracy triumphs along with social atomisation.
Democracy is the limited power of the greatest number, and the power of the greatest limited number. The great ideologies very soon abandon faith for numbers. Nowadays 'La Patrie' is no more than a few thousand war veterans. Ideology, information and culture tend more and more to lose their content and become pure quantity. The less importance a piece of news has, the more it is repeated, and the more it distracts people from their real problems.