Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate

My Belief, For What It Is Worth, Is That City Dwellers Cannot Understand The World. Insulated From Reality By Complex And Expert Systems Of Provision And Police, Baffled By Fashion And Spectacle, City Dwellers Can Distinguish Neither The Sources Of Their Existence Nor The Consequences.

Since The Attack On The United States On September 11 2001, And The Us Retaliation In Afghanistan And Iraq, There Must Be Few People Who Have Not Felt A Twinge Of Nostalgia For The Cold War.

Life Without Oil, In Fact, Would Be So Different That It Is Frightening To Contemplate. We Are Addicted, And It Is No Comfortable Addiction.

Were There Peace And Justice In The Middle East, The Arabs Would No More Need Their Tinhorn Dictators Than They Would Their Corpulent Princes.

The Prevailing Ideology Of The Modern West - Which Is Political Economy - Is In The Doghouse. Having Failed To Notice Atmospheric Pollution, The Economists Then Frightened Themselves With The Sort Of Financial Crisis They Said They Had Abolished.