United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

We must discover how to ask simple questions of ourselves.

Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right to literally purchase the copyright of a citizen's potential contribution to society. In a democracy they should not have the legal right to silence the quasi-totality of the functioning élite in order to satisfy a managerial taste for control and secrecy.

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