So the new school has been of some use after all. The glorious robes of liberalism have fallen away and the most repulsive despotism stands revealed for all the world to see. This, too, is a revelation, albeit a negative one. It is a truth which at the very least teaches us to see the hollowness of our patriotism, the perverted nature of our state and to hide our faces in shame. Revolutions are not made by shame.
Shame is a kind of anger turned in on itself.
And if a whole nation were to feel ashamed it would be like a lion recoiling in order to spring. The comedy of despotism in which we are being forced to act is as dangerous for him as tragedy was once for the Stuarts and the Bourbons. And even if the comedy will not be seen in its true light for a long time, yet it will still be a revolution. The state is too serious a business to be subjected to such buffoonery. This doom is the approaching revolution.