What's Wrong With A Bit Of Nostalgia

There Seems To Be Something In Humanity Which Will Not Bow Meekly To The Insolence Of Power.

The Political Currents That Topped The Global Agenda In The Late 20th Century - Revolutionary Nationalism, Feminism And Ethnic Struggle - Place Culture At Their Heart.

The Government Spokesman Announces That There Is No Truth In The Charges Of Widespread Corruption Within The Cabinet; Nobody Believes Him; He Knows That Nobody Believes Him, We Know That He Knows It, And He Knows It Too.

What Persuades Men And Women To Mistake Each Other From Time To Time For Gods Or Vermin Is Ideology. One Can Understand Well Enough How Human Beings May Struggle And Murder For Good Material Reasons - Reasons Connected, For Instance, With Their Physical Survival. It Is Much Harder To Grasp How They May Come To Do So In The Name Of Something As Apparently Abstract As Ideas. Yet Ideas Are What Men And Women Live By, And Will Occasionally Die For.

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.