by a certain "test-tube Machiavellianism

 We will write here a short paragraph on the GREAT POLITICS OF VIRTUE for those who wish to learn its current vicissitudes; not HOW we become virtuous, but HOW we make ourselves virtuous, or HOW we buy a virtuous image in the American Market-Media---or even HOW to make virtue reign against the facts. Some sacrifice is required, and they have risked it correctly, recognizing and anticipating some truths that must be constantly taught: that one can only reach the kingdom of virtue by other means, and not by means of "virtue itself." The ideal of great politics is delimited by a certain "test-tube Machiavellianism," which aspires to perfection through "induced hesitation," in the swamp of objectivisms to order. But Machiavellianism ''pure'', I say: ''sans melanges, raw, green, in all its strength, in all its apprehension is... SUPERHUMAN, DIVINE, TRANSCENDENT; common men have never attained it, and have only vaguely approached it, AS I said: by induced hesitation'', that is: phobias, greed, anxiety disorders, resentments and other reactive pestilences that purge the political world. In that type of narrower politics, in force in the realm of liberal aspirations, that is, in the politics of virtue, it also seems that such an ideal was never achieved. Admitting that they did in fact have (they do not, AS EYES ARE), eyes for the ''hidden things'', one discovers, even among the most independent and the most supposedly ''conscious'' moralists of the liberal camp (and the pejorative name of ''moralists'' is well suited to these politicians of morality'', and to all these ''makers of new moral forces'') one discovers, I say, traces of this fact that has also paid its tribute to human weakness: an essential defect in the ''political capital'' of every moralist, especially when it comes to ''making transparent'' his ''most cherished'' matters.