Only When God Was Said

Elites Quite Naturally Define As The Most Important And Admired Qualities For A Citizen Those On Which They Themselves Have Concentrated.

Freud, Sigmund: A Man So Dissatisfied With His Own Mother And Father That He Devoted His Life To Convincing Everyone Who Would Listen — Or Better Still, Talk — That Their Parents Were Just As Bad.

A Foreigner Is An Individual Who Is Considered Either Comic Or Sinister. When The Victim Of A Disaster - Preferably Natural But Sometimes Political -the Foreigner May Also Be Pitied From A Distance For A Short Period Of Time.

The Citizen's Job Is To Be Rude - To Pierce The Comfort Of Professional Intercourse By Boorish Expressions Of Doubt.

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.