ABSTRACT
In practice, we were pawns in the Chinese tactics. […] We wanted so much for it to be the Mecca, we wanted so much for it to be the dawn of a new world […] There is only one explanation for this: we didn’t want to see reality, we wanted a kind of utopia in front of our eyes, we wanted to maintain the utopia. So the boat turns to the right, the boat turns to the left: we always said that the boat was going straight. It’s frightening, in retrospect, to see how blind we could have been.
