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Everyone Has An Equal Right To Inequality.

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

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.

The Recession Is Over." This Phrase Has Been Used Twice A Year Since 1973 By Government Leaders Throughout The West. Its Meaning Is Unclear. See: Depression.

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