The individual and the Crowd: two pistons of the same engine.

Due to this blindness of the mass, Heraclitus despises the crowd. It was not clear then, not even to a man like Heraclitus, and even less so today, to men like us, that history is dialectic and that the competition between individual and mass, like all antagonisms, is creative and irrepressible.

"The suppression of the antagonist, once it’s done, would reverberate in a crisis that is more difficult the more imponderable is the void that opens up to the winner."

To a vertical view, mass and individual appear as one reality, two pistons of the same engine. One could not exist without the other, just as a stick with only one end is not imaginable. They are inseparable aspects of a single reality.

So, if conducted by a vertical man, politics is a game. If conducted by a horizontal man, politics is arrogance, vanity, prevarication, hatred, and death.

Politics understood as division and conflict is over. It's dead. It has no solutions unless it takes a leap in degree, level, dimension - a quantum / evolutionary leap. Politics as we know is a static expression of existence; but if made dynamic, vertical, it becomes "the art of dreaming." The detached, conscious politics is born, seen as a game, part of the "dream". Political leadership must be visionary, continually renew itself; it must become poetry and as such, a process of integration of the Being.