But for too long we have had an atmosphere of easy ‘success’, a deluge of paraders, a certain equality crashing through the spirit of expert mediocrity. Maestros are sprouting up all over with the help of the cane and the cushion: one time they crop up as ‘businessmen’, another time as ‘revolutionaries’, sometimes they are ‘writers’ or ‘idea throwers’ … There are more vociferous leaders than methodical political work, more writers than real books, more so-called doctors than discoveries, more ‘successful’ businessmen than factories whose accounts are in the black. Too often we greet serious orientations and methodical efforts with a snide smile, as something old fashioned; they are easily belittled, meeting with our skepticism or indifference.