Content Is An Obstacle To The Exercise

Elites Quite Naturally Define As The Most Important And Admired Qualities For A Citizen Those On Which They Themselves Have Concentrated.

Marx Was Fortunate To Have Been Born Eighty Years Before Walt Disney. Disney Also Promised A Child's Paradise And Unlike Marx, Delivered On His Promise.

Of Course, Corporations And Governments Have A Right To Something For Their Money. They Pay The Wages. But They Don't Have The Ethical Right To Literally Purchase The Copyright Of A Citizen's Potential Contribution To Society. In A Democracy They Should Not Have The Legal Right To Silence The Quasi-totality Of The Functioning élite In Order To Satisfy A Managerial Taste For Control And Secrecy.

Moral Crusade: Public Activity Undertaken By Middle-aged Men Who Are Cheating On Their Wives Or Diddling Little Boys. Moral Crusades Are Particularly Popular Among Those Seeking Power For Their Own Personal Pleasure, Politicians Who Can't Think Of Anything Useful To Do With Their Mandates, And Religious Professionals Suffering From A Personal Inability To Communicate With Their God.

In General, Democracy And Individualism Have Advanced In Spite Of And Often Against Specific Economic Interest. Both Democracy And Individualism Have Been Based Upon Financial Sacrifice, Not Gain. Even In Athens, A Large Part Of The 7,000 Citizens Who Participated Regularly In Assemblies Were Farmers Who Had To Give Up Several Days' Work To Go Into Town To Talk And Listen.