[Q] Jacek, compared with '81, are you now really an optimist? 
What does that mean... I think that the category of optimism-pessimism are
beyond rationalism and means only as much as the person who is thinking in this way means.
At that time I used to say, we need to walk on a thread to cross a precipice.
This appraisal of the situation sounds pessimistic. But I believe that we will succeed and this is my optimism.
So I was an optimist then and I am one now.
Then, we had a 5% chance, 2% but now I'd say we have a 30% chance.
I believe that we'll make the most of that 30% and so the fact that I believe this is a sign of optimism.
That's somewhat irrational.
However, the fact that we have a 30% chance can already be seen as a realistic chance of winning in this case. I'm saying that
there is a 30% chance of it working in this way, by these means because I'm absolutely certain that it will work eventually.
Totalitarianism can no longer exist, that's obvious.
In effect, it doesn't exist any more, and operations like martial law can only be a one-off venture.
We need to realise that the imposition of martial law wasn't a return to totalitarianism
but was in a sense its contradiction
because, as I've said here, totalitarianism relies on co-operation and on lies.
In this case, there was neither co-operation nor were there lies.
This time they told us clearly: we have the power, and we will take you, the entire nation, and we will crush you
while you will listen to us. In no way does this resemble totalitarianism, it was simply a military coup
and a military dictatorship which by their very nature are extremely short-lived.
