We Are What We Do, Especially What

Poets And Beggars, Musicians And Prophets, Warriors And Scoundrels, All Creatures Of That Unbridled Reality, We Have Had To Ask But Little Of Our Imagination, For Our Crucial Problem Has Been A Lack Of Conventional Means To Render Our Lives Believable. This, My Friends, Is The Crux Of Our Solitude.

In This World Which Is Losing Faith In So Called Representative Democracy, There Are New Developments In Participatory Democracy. These Are Very Interesting Developments, Reflecting The Revitalization Of Community Power With A More And More Active Presence Of Minorities In Political Life, Including The Presence Of Women Who Are Of Course By No Means A Minority.

From The Point Of View Of The Economy, The Sale Of Weapons Is Indistinguishable From The Sale Of Food. When A Building Collapses Or A Plane Crashes, It?s Rather Inconvenient From The Point Of View Of Those Inside, But It?s Altogether Convenient For The Growth Of The Gross National Product, Which Sometimes Ought To Be Called The "gross Criminal Product."

There Are Some Writers Who Feel They Are Elected By God. I Am Not. I Am Elected By The Devil - This Is Clear.

The Big Bankers Of The World, Who Practise The Terrorism Of Money, Are More Powerful Than Kings And Field Marshals, Even More Than The Pope Of Rome Himself. They Never Dirty Their Hands. They Kill No-one: They Limit Themselves To Applauding The Show.