Reason is cold and passive: it can only become power when it is put into action by energy. And energy, being hot, naturally introduces an element of chaos. The disorder inherent in struggle means that even the most organized political movements make mistakes. When these mistakes compound, they produce inhuman horrors and outcomes which are so severe they cannot be controlled, only survived.

Humans have never controlled the demons we call up from the depths: frequently they obliterate us and everything we love. On the occasions we survive such encounters, we use lies and political myths to shield our minds from the reality. Everyone involved in such "emission events" is prey. Josef Stalin and Hitler are as much victims of their movements as they are leaders. Most humans countenance the reality of large-scale human politics through psychological complexes of denial and repression.

Reality does not need to hide from us. It is staring us in the face. We are the ones trying to hide from it.

Our survival mechanism can be likened to those animals which mutilate their own bodies to escape predators. Like slow-worms biting off their tails, we amputate our minds to escape the basilisks that will kill us if we look at them directly. The English poet William Blake famously said "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite; For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

As Blake knew perfectly well, man did not shut his eyes without reason.