An Individual Who Stands Out, Or Disagrees

The Neo-conservatives, Who Are Closely Linked To The Neo-corporatists, Are Rather Different. They Claim To Be Conservatives, When Everything They Stand For Is A Rejection Of Conservatism. They Claim To Present An Alternate Social Model, When They Are Little More Than The Courtiers Of The Corporatist Movement. Their Agitation Is Filled With The Bitterness And Cynicism Typical Of Courtiers Who Scramble For Crumbs At The Banquet Tables Of Real Power, But Are Always Denied A Proper Chair.

Capitalism Was Reasonably Content Under Hitler, Happy Under Mussolini, Very Happy Under Franco And Delirious Under General Pinochet.

The Faithful Witness, Like...socrates, Voltaire, And Swift And Christ Himself, Is At His Best When He Is Questioning And Clarifying And Avoiding The Specialists Obsession With Solution. He Betrays Society When He Is Silent...he Is True To Himself And To People When His Clarity Causes Disquiet.

We Have More Than Two Options. A Critique Of Reason Does Not Have To Be A Call For The Return Of Superstition And Arbitrary Power. Our Problems Do Not Lie With Reason Itself But With Our Obsessive Treatment Of Reason As An Absolute Value. Certainly It Is One Of Our Qualities, But It Functions Positively Only When Balanced And Limited By The Others.

The Most Powerful Force Possessed By The Individual Citizen Is Her Own Government. ... Government Is The Only Organized Mechanism That Makes Possible That Level Of Shared Disinterest Known As The Public Good.