Aldous Huxley

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I read this a few months ago. It keeps popping back to my thoughts every time I see politicians talk about the latest war (Iraq). Its like tribal times with these people, they smell the hunt then we seem all programmed to align to their blood lust. Its amazing how often the parliamentary executive stifle opinions with threats of disloyalty and misinformation. Why can we not arrest these tyrants?

Here's my problem with Tony Blair. He's blinded by religious faith, a belief system that is centuries out of date. He knows he is out of his depth but carries on anyway because he has been programmed from childhood to think that the feeling of hope is a good thing.

There is only one place we live and that is in reality, there is only one set of rules, one universal truth and it does not care about the Bush - Blair religious vanity and personal insecurities.

I think it was Jeremy Paxman who said the only distinguishable feature of all politicians is that they failed in their preferred walk of life. Blair we know wanted to be a rock star - so now he inflicts these dreams on all of us. I just wish he'd smashed his guitar over the people who have their hands up the Bush-Puppet arse (ignore Bush himself, he's just there to obstruct public scrutiny - his masters know that we won't probe him hard because he triggers such deep senses of either pity or loathing that we are unable to speak our minds in his presence).