Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Our belief in salvation through the market is very much in the Utopian tradition. The economists and managers are the servants of God. Like the medieval scholastics, their only job is to uncover the divine plan. They could never create or stop it. At most they might aspire to small alterations.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

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.

There is no need to search for global solutions, apart from an absolute necessity to destroy the idea that such things exist.