Sublime Politics

How can we imagine such a thing?

Has it existed?

Sublime politics are approached most closely in submarine war, the heart of the cold war.

In a military sense, the ocean is vaster than outer space.
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Above ground, where crews and brotherhoods are not absolute, with political parties, political bureaucracies, statecraft in the sense of shaping the way humans behave, politics must be radically vulgar - at least in the sense in which it can be accepted. The sublime is far more offensive than the vulgar.