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All our political forms are exhausted and practically nonexistent. Our
parliamentary and electoral system and our political parties are just as
futile as dictatorships are intolerable. Nothing is left. And this
nothing is increasingly aggressive, totalitarian, and omnipresent. Our
experience today is the strange one of empty political institutions in
which no one has any confidence any more, of a system of government
which functions only in the interests of a political class, and at the
same time of the almost infinite growth of power, authority, and social
control which makes any one of our democracies a more authoritarian
mechanism than the Napoleonic state. - Jacques Ellul

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