A Big Mac - The Communion Wafer

Not Only Is The Napoleonic Dream Stronger Today In Our Imaginations Than It Has Ever Been, But One Can Already Feel The Slow Falling Away Of Moral Opprobrium From Our Memory Of Hitler. In Another Fifty Years We May Well Find Ourselves Weighed Down By A Second Monstrous Dream Of Pure Grandeur To Match That Of The Emperor. Two Men Who Dared. Two Men Who Were Adored. Two Men Who Led With Brilliance. Two Men Who Administered Fairly And Efficiently. Two Men Who Were Modest In Their Own Needs But Surrounded By Lesser Beings Who Profited From Their Situation And Came Between The Hero And The People.

Obviously We Don't Have 300 Million People. We Haven't Got A Big Army. We Don't Have Hollywood. We're A Medium Small-sized Country. We Have To Do What Medium Small-sized Countries Do, Which-even Though We're Not Smarter Than Other People-is To Make Ourselves Seem To Be Smarter. We Have To Work Harder And Know More Than Other People.

Democracy Is The Only System Capable Of Reflecting The Humanist Premise Of Equilibrium Or Balance. The Key To Its Secret Is The Involvement Of The Citizen.

Now Listen To The First Three Aims Of The Corporatist Movement In Germany, Italy And France During The 1920s. These Were Developed By The People Who Went On To Become Part Of The Fascist Experience: (1) Shift Power Directly To Economic And Social Interest Groups; (2) Push Entrepreneurial Initiative In Areas Normally Reserved For Public Bodies; (3) Obliterate The Boundaries Between Public And Private Interest -- That Is, Challenge The Idea Of The Public Interest. This Sounds Like The Official Program Of Most Contemporary Western Governments.

We All Need A Bit Of Self-delusion. It Gets Us Over The Difficult Spots.