A Commercial Civilization Is Money-oriented, Profit-oriented. Commercial

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.

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.

There Is Something Silly About Grown Men And Women Striving To Reduce Their Vision Of Themselves And Of Civilization To Bean Counting.

United States:. A Nation Given Either To Unjustified Over-enthusiasms Or Infantile Furies.

The Neo-conservatives, Who Are Closely Linked To The Neo-corporatists, Are Rather Different. They Claim To Be Conservatives, When Everything They Stand For Is A Rejection Of Conservatism. They Claim To Present An Alternate Social Model, When They Are Little More Than The Courtiers Of The Corporatist Movement. Their Agitation Is Filled With The Bitterness And Cynicism Typical Of Courtiers Who Scramble For Crumbs At The Banquet Tables Of Real Power, But Are Always Denied A Proper Chair.