The Void In Our Society Has Been

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

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.

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.

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.

I Have A Theory Of Statistics: If You Can Double Them Or Halve Them And They Still Work, They Are Really Good Statistics.