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

In All Earlier Civilizations, It Should Be Remembered, Commerce Was Treated As A Narrow Activity And By No Means The Senior Sector In Society.

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.

Not Only Is The Napoleonic Dream Stronger Today In Our Imaginations Than It Has Ever Been, But One Can Already Feel The Slow Falling Away Of Moral Opprobrium From Our Memory Of Hitler. In Another Fifty Years We May Well Find Ourselves Weighed Down By A Second Monstrous Dream Of Pure Grandeur To Match That Of The Emperor. Two Men Who Dared. Two Men Who Were Adored. Two Men Who Led With Brilliance. Two Men Who Administered Fairly And Efficiently. Two Men Who Were Modest In Their Own Needs But Surrounded By Lesser Beings Who Profited From Their Situation And Came Between The Hero And The People.

Governments Produced By The Most Banal Of Electoral Victories, Like Those Produced By The Crudest Of Coups D'état, Will Always Feel Obliged To Dress Themselves Up Linguistically In Some Way.