I feared that this book had become, by force of circumstance, a book about a lifeless past. But it has not, because the experience it speaks of, to those who still retain the memory of their own existence, is an ongoing experience. The experience of servitude remains deeply relevant. It was not only communism that annihilated and crushed peoples, but also modernity itself, which we experience today as complete liberty, complete emancipation—a modernity that shatters civilizations, cultures, and destinies. Like a tide, the wave of this technological nihilism wipes out the memory of everything we have ever been.
More than ever, our future is inconceivable. What remains is only the present of what we really are: an identity without memory, without a past. Communism itself was nothing but an experiment of terrible magnitude in what is presented to us today as liberty, reason, and the power of technological reason.
We should therefore be prepared for the new servitude, the one in which the definition of a new hybrid humanity has become an increasingly dictatorial and dogmatic process.
Mihai Gheorghiu