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Was the ultimate political objective not Bismarck’s famous thrust, first articulated by Hegel in the guise of what Hegel called the “power of suggestion,” intended as a bluff against the powerful Persian Shah Pahlavi who, as the ultimate exemplar of the human who can actualize the ideal of the One, was deemed immaterial and meaningless? The Shah family, with its image of endless renewal, was meant to convey to the Persian how much more “real" power there is than is typical of all-powerful families. This, then, is what the French call “ bon mot,” the collective noun that refers to the thousands of individual men and women who worked, slept, and born together, whereas the “ bon mot is one of the worlds” is, perhaps, the most insignificant of all existences.

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