Initiation and initiative : an exploration of the life and ideas of Dimitrije Mitrinović

170 LIFE AND IDEAS OF MITRINOVIC

is all they will ever remain—distant images beyond the bounds of reality. The only way to translate one’s ‘utopian visions’ into reality is to try, and to be brave enough to risk failure. Even if they did fail to reach their goal, they did not lose. Those who were involved caught a glimpse of the ‘worldas-it-might-be.’ For them, “something happened which was new in the realm of human experience.”7¢