Pessimism: A Valuable Protection Against Quackery.

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.

Our Civilization Is Locked In The Grip Of An Ideology - Corporatism. An Ideology That Denies And Undermines The Legitimacy Of Individuals As The Citizen In A Democracy. The Particular Imbalance Of This Ideology Leads To A Worship Of Self-interest And A Denial Of The Public Good. The Practical Effects On The Individual Are Passivity And Conformism In The Areas That Matter, And Non-conformism In The Areas That Don't

The Best Defence [for A Democracy, For The Public Good] Is Aggressiveness, The Aggressiveness Of The Involved Citizen. We Need To Reassert That Slow, Time-consuming, Inefficient, Boring Process That Requires Our Involvement; It Is Called 'being A Citizen.' The Public Good Is Not Something That You Can See. It Is Not Static. It Is A Process. It Is The Process By Which Democratic Civilizations Build Themselves.

Money Is Not Real. It Is A Conscious Agreement On Measuring Value.

The Faithful Witness, Like...socrates, Voltaire, And Swift And Christ Himself, Is At His Best When He Is Questioning And Clarifying And Avoiding The Specialists Obsession With Solution. He Betrays Society When He Is Silent...he Is True To Himself And To People When His Clarity Causes Disquiet.