Democracy Is Finding Proximate Solutions To Insoluble

Since Inequalities Of Privilege Are Greater Than Could Possibly Be Defended Rationally, The Intelligence Of Privileged Groups Is Usually Applied To The Task Of Inventing Specious Proofs For The Theory That Universal Values Spring From, And That General Interests Are Served By, The Special Privileges Which They Hold.

That's Why History Is Not An Answer To Our Problem, Because History Complicates, Enlarges Every Problem Of Human Existence. Now, The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Didn't Believe This.

The Nuclear Age Has Refuted The Idea Of Progress And Marxism Has Been Refuted By Stalinism. Therefore People Have Returned To The Historic Religion.

Adam Smith's Was A Real Universalism In Intent. Laissez Faire Was Intended To Establish A World Community As Well As A Natural Harmony Of Interests Within Each Nation... But The "children Of Darkness" Were Able To Make Good Use Of His Creed. A Dogma Which Was Intended To Guarantee The Economic Freedom Of The Individual Became The "ideology" Of Vast Corporate Structures Of A Later Period Of Capitalism, Used By Them, And Still Used, To Prevent A Proper Political Control Of Their Power.

There Was A Time When I Had All The Answers. My Real Growth Began When I Discovered That The Questions To Which I Had The Answers Were Not The Important Questions.