A velha noção antropomórfica de que todo o universo se centraliza no homem — de que a existência humana é a suprema expressão do processo cósmico — parece galopar alegremente para o balaio das ilusões perdidas. O fato é que a vida do homem, quanto mais estudada à luz da biologia geral, parece cada vez mais vazia de significado. O que, no passado, deu a impressão de ser a principal preocupação e obra-prima dos deuses, a espécie humana começa agora a apresentar o aspecto de um subproduto acidental das maquinações vastas, inescrutáveis e provavelmente sem sentido desses mesmos deuses.
H. L. Mencken1880 - 1956
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. The political intermediaries who are, in all societies, the guarantors of freedom, disappear to make way for a booted and spurred Jehovah who rules over the silent masses or, which comes to the same thing, over masses who shout slogans at the top of their lungs. There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus—in other words, the party—which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Fuhr-erprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism. Mussolini, the Latin lawyer, contented himself with reasons of State, which he transformed, with a great deal of rhetoric, into the absolute. "Nothing beyond the State, above the State, against the State. Everything to the State, for the State, in the State....