Today, fear of the truth is not a fear of the unknown, but a fear of something we know very well. People are afraid of themselves because they know w… - Alexander Zinoviev

The ancestors are generally only a caricature of the contemporaries, and the descendants a caricature of the ancestors. p. 127

“It is not a question,” I said, “of acting as if there existed somewhere a ready-made dialectical logic, which we would only have to identify as such. This science does not exist and the expression “ dialectical logic" has several meanings. The problem must be posed differently. No one questions the fact that there exists a mode of thinking and a dialectical approach to phenomena. In this approach we use forms that logic describes formal. But we also resort to other means which allow us to orient ourselves in a complex, changing and contradictory reality. It is these means, which make dialectical thinking possible, which must be taken as the object of study of logic . And it matters little whether we view this science as a particular dialectical logic or as a branch of formal logic. Incidentally, these modes of thinking have already been studied by John Stuart Mill, to name only him." p. 316

Which means that we are seriously mistaken when we hope to see science play a role as an instrument of progress and civilization.