The Prevailing Ideology Of The Modern West

My Belief, For What It Is Worth, Is That City Dwellers Cannot Understand The World. Insulated From Reality By Complex And Expert Systems Of Provision And Police, Baffled By Fashion And Spectacle, City Dwellers Can Distinguish Neither The Sources Of Their Existence Nor The Consequences.

There Are Signs That The Age Of Petroleum Has Passed Its Zenith. Adjusted For Inflation, A Barrel Of Crude Oil Now Sells For Three Times Its Long-run Average. The Large Western Oil Companies, Which Cartellised The Industry For Much Of The 20th Century, Are Now Selling More Oil Than They Find, And Are Thus In The Throes Of Liquidation.

Profits In Business Always Depend On The Rate Of Interest: The Higher The Interest, The Higher The Rate Of Profit Required.

Liberty In Islam Is The Liberty To Be A Muslim, Democracy Likewise, Individualism Likewise.

When Gordon The Brown, In London In 1997, Commissioned A Great Inquisition Or Survey Of His New Realm, The Result Was The So-called National Asset Register (nar), Which Was Immediately Dubbed By The Boomers Of The Uk Treasury "the Modern Domesday Book".