Content Is An Obstacle To The Exercise

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.

If Allowed To Run Free Of The Social System, Capitalism Will Attempt To Corrupt And Undermine Democracy, Which Is After All Not A Natural State.

Governments Produced By The Most Banal Of Electoral Victories, Like Those Produced By The Crudest Of Coups D'état, Will Always Feel Obliged To Dress Themselves Up Linguistically In Some Way.

Which Is Ideology? Which Not? You Shall Know Them By Their Assertion Of Truth, Their Contempt For Considered Reflection, And Their Fear Of Debate.

Whenever Governments Adopt A Moral Tone - As Opposed To An Ethical One - You Know Something Is Wrong.