Every attempt to reason about politics fails through the lack of a non-political starting point - this in common with any discourse rich enough to reflect itself, but somehow more so in this instance, since the reflection is so multifarious. It is not up to an interpretation to demonstrate its freedom from ideology, this could only come about if it were of no use to any party, in other words if it never existed. Nothing is what it appears to be in this context because its being is determined by its strategic utility, which varies according to the pre-existing interest which mobilises it. Whoever gets to it first gets to co-opt it. In this way it provides a severe paradigm for the mind, not its normal state, perhaps, but an exacerbation, a sort of psychotic mode, which can never be ruled out. Less obviously, the mind can't be reasoned about, or reasoned with, because there's no getting outside it. No motives are revealed but there is nothing which is not motivated.