It may be useful if self elected EUropean gods look at history, may be they see their future – sure, the price of the tragic part is too high though and not (yet) paid by those gods …
If it believed in its own essence, would it try to hide that essence under the semblance of an alien essence and seek refuge in hypocrisy and sophism? The modern ancien regime is rather only the comedian of a world order whose true heroes are dead. History is thorough and goes through many phases when carrying an old form to the grave. The last phases of a world-historical form is its comedy. The gods of Greece, already tragically wounded to death in Aeschylus’s tragedy Prometheus Bound, had to re-die a comic death in Lucian’s Dialogues. Why this course of history? So that humanity should part with its past cheerfully. This cheerful historical destiny is what we vindicate for the political authorities of Germany.
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Introduction
COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND 