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They (the Novelists) Became The Voice Of The Citizen Against The Ubiquitous Raison D'état, Which Reappeared Endlessly To Justify Everything From Unjust Laws And The Use Of Child Labour To Incompetent Generalship And Inhuman Conditions On Warships. The Themes They Popularized Have Gradually Turned Into The Laws Which, For All Their Flaws, Have Improved The State Of Man.

We Have More Than Two Options. A Critique Of Reason Does Not Have To Be A Call For The Return Of Superstition And Arbitrary Power. Our Problems Do Not Lie With Reason Itself But With Our Obsessive Treatment Of Reason As An Absolute Value. Certainly It Is One Of Our Qualities, But It Functions Positively Only When Balanced And Limited By The Others.

After A Period In Which Technocrats Attempted To Become Stars And Stars To Become Politicians, The Political Void Has Been Occupied By The Force Of Mediocrity, Which Can Easily Master Enough Of The Star Techniques To Produce Inoffensive Personalities And Enough Of The Rational Vocabulary To Create The Sounds Of Competence.

Capitalism Was Reasonably Content Under Hitler, Happy Under Mussolini, Very Happy Under Franco And Delirious Under General Pinochet.

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