That is why democracy shall never stop provoking hatred. It is also why this hatred is always present in disguise in laughing tones against asses and horses in Plato’s time in furious diatribes against Benetton campaigns and episodes of Loft Story in the time of a worn-out French Fifth Republic Whether these masks are amusing or scathing the hatred underneath them has a more serious aim. It aims at the intolerable egalitarian condition of inequality itself. So we can reassure the sociologists both professional and occasional who declaim the worrying situation wherein democracy is now deprived of enemies. Democracy is not about to have to brave the anguish of such a comfort. The government of anybody and everybody is bound to attract the hatred of all those who are entitled to govern men by their birth wealth or science. Today it is bound to attract more radically