But the more you distrust politics and your politicians, the more anger will manifest itself in uncontrollable ways, especially if your country is imbued with a romantic “revolutionary” tradition and culture. This is obviously the case in France, where, contrary to what the French historian François Furet thought in the immediate aftermath of communism’s collapse 20 years ago, the French Revolution is neither over nor a closed chapter in history.
但你越是不信任政治和政治领袖，就会无节制地表达越多的愤怒情绪，尤其当你的国家被灌输了浪漫“革命”传统和文化时就更是如此。法国的情况显然就是这样，与法国历史学家佛朗西斯• 傅雷在20年前共产主义刚刚崩溃时所预计的情况相反，法国大革命既没有结束也没有成为尘封的历史。