If Polish leaders don't reconcile with Polish society, they lose all distinction from the murderers and terrorists in whose stead they claim to be governing.
The point of the painting, Jonathan Crary tells us in 24/7, isn't just about industrialisation: it's about the erosion of all distinction between day and night.
All distinction vanishes between chemists, social scientists, particle physicists, snail taxonomists, people who chop the heads of little chickens with giant scissors - they're all "scientists".
In films, people tear themselves away from one another weeping, watching their loved ones' disappearing faces until all distinction is lost.
They suggest that true contact with the transcendent involves going beyond all that we speak of as God even the Trinity to an inner "God beyond God," a divine Darkness or Desert in which all distinction is lost.
Even a good corporate man like Greg Gumbel pointed out at kickoff that the throwbacks were ugly — though ugly is not so much the word as measly, in their indigo and yellow nothing muchness, lacking all distinction, not even a logo or a corny mascot or insignia.
