Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

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.

The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result of such a denial is a growing imbalance which leads to our adoration of self-interest and our denial of the public good.

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