late eighties a playwright from East Germany wrote a book called Knights of the Round Table . What future awaits them? Lancelot asks. "The people no longer want to know anything about the Grail and Round Table ... No longer believe in our justice or our dream ... For the people of the Knights of the Round Table are a pile of crazy, idiots, criminals. " Did Lancelot himself no longer believes in the Grail? "I do not know" answers. I can not answer that question. I can not say yes or no ... "No, probably never find the Grail. But no reason King Arthur when he says that what matters is not the Grail, but your search? "If we abandon the search for the Grail, we gave ourselves." Just to ourselves? Does humanity can live without the ideals of freedom and justice, or without those who devote their lives? Or perhaps even without the memory of those who did so in the twentieth century?
Eric J. Hobsbawm, "Being a communist" in Interesting Times: A life in the twentieth century , p.145.
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