As An Inclusive Quality, Imagination Is Thus

There Is Something Silly About Grown Men And Women Striving To Reduce Their Vision Of Themselves And Of Civilization To Bean Counting.

Our Belief In Salvation Through The Market Is Very Much In The Utopian Tradition. The Economists And Managers Are The Servants Of God. Like The Medieval Scholastics, Their Only Job Is To Uncover The Divine Plan. They Could Never Create Or Stop It. At Most They Might Aspire To Small Alterations.

Venereal: From Venus, The Goddess Of Love, This Word Refers To The Reality Of Desire. With The Rise Of Protestantism And Science, The Word Disease Was Tacked On In A Revealing Combination Of Categorization And Moralizing. Which Disease? The Disease Of Love.

Happy Hour: A Depressing Comment On The Rest Of The Day And A Victory For The Most Limited Dionysian View Of Human Nature.

The Best Defence [for A Democracy, For The Public Good] Is Aggressiveness, The Aggressiveness Of The Involved Citizen. We Need To Reassert That Slow, Time-consuming, Inefficient, Boring Process That Requires Our Involvement; It Is Called 'being A Citizen.' The Public Good Is Not Something That You Can See. It Is Not Static. It Is A Process. It Is The Process By Which Democratic Civilizations Build Themselves.