Unregulated Competition Is A Naive Metaphor For

The Neo-conservatives, Who Are Closely Linked To The Neo-corporatists, Are Rather Different. They Claim To Be Conservatives, When Everything They Stand For Is A Rejection Of Conservatism. They Claim To Present An Alternate Social Model, When They Are Little More Than The Courtiers Of The Corporatist Movement. Their Agitation Is Filled With The Bitterness And Cynicism Typical Of Courtiers Who Scramble For Crumbs At The Banquet Tables Of Real Power, But Are Always Denied A Proper Chair.

It Is The Considered Opinion Of Most Members Of Our Rational élites That, In Any Given Difference Of Opinion With Reality, Reality Is Wrong.

A Foreigner Is An Individual Who Is Considered Either Comic Or Sinister. When The Victim Of A Disaster - Preferably Natural But Sometimes Political -the Foreigner May Also Be Pitied From A Distance For A Short Period Of Time.

In The Humanist Ideal, The Mainstream Is Where Interesting Debate, The Generating Of New Ideas And Creativity Take Place. In Rational Society This Mainstream Is Considered Uncontrollable And Is Therefore Made Marginal. The Centre Ground Is Occupied Instead By Structures And Courtiers.

Obviously We Don't Have 300 Million People. We Haven't Got A Big Army. We Don't Have Hollywood. We're A Medium Small-sized Country. We Have To Do What Medium Small-sized Countries Do, Which-even Though We're Not Smarter Than Other People-is To Make Ourselves Seem To Be Smarter. We Have To Work Harder And Know More Than Other People.