~ ASAASACDT ~ A Subject And A Sovereign Are Clean Different Things ~ Charles I ~ 30-01-1649

~ TDO-P-O-LAD-OP-STBOOTSOAOND ~ The Desire Of – Persuading – Of – Leading And Directing – Other People – Seems To Be One Of The Strongest Of All Our Natural Desires ~ Adam Smith ~ The Wealth Of Nations ~ 1776

~ TGGFTGN ~ The Greatest Good For The Greatest Number ~ Jeremy Bentham ~ Easy On The First Principles Of Government ~ 1768

~ S-APNOBTWAL-B-TTWATBB ~ Society – A Partnership Not Only Between Those Who Are Living – But – Between Those Who Are To Be Born ~ Edmund Burke ~ Reflections On The Revolution In France ~ 1790

~ GM ~ GerryMander ~ Boston Gazette ~ 26-03-1812

~ DBLOS-WAE-DOA-WICTB-GU-TAIARWTR-A-TTSAL-DNBW ~ Dominion By Land Or Sea – Will Appear Equally – Destitute Of Attraction – When It Comes To Be – Generally Understood – That All Its Advantages Rest With The Rulers – And – That The Subjects At Large – Derive No Benefit Whatever ~ Jean-Baptiste Say ~ A Treatise On Political Economy ~ 1832

~ TOH-WAMWAWR-WAP-WHPTTW-R-TNH-IOWAAR-R-WHPTTA-WAP ~ The Old Hypocrite – Was A Man Whose Aims Were Really – Worldly And Practical – While He Pretended That They Were – Religious – The New Hypocrite – Is One Whose Aims Are Really – Religious – While He Pretends That They Are – Worldly And Practical ~ Gilbert Chesterton ~ What’s Wrong With The World ~ 1910

~ MIA-WHVITA-A-DTFF-SAC-OAFYB ~ Madmen In Authority – Who Hear Voices In The Air – Are – Distilling Their Frenzy From – Some Academic Scribbler – Of A Few Years Back ~ John Maynard Keynes ~ The General Theory Of Employment, Interest And Money ~ 1936

~ AGT-RPTPP-CADOTSO-P ~ A Government That – Robs Peter To Pay Paul – Can Always Depend On The Support Of – Paul ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ Everybody’s Political What’s What ~ 1944

~ AB ~ Administrative Behaviour ~ Herbert Simon ~ Administrative Behaviour ~ 1947

~ TTT-CP-KWTWADTGI-GAH ~ The Theory That The – Common People – Know What They Want And Deserve To Get It – Good And Hard ~ Henry Mencken ~ A Mencken Chrestomathy ~ 1949

~ ARMMAAHAFNBIDAP-B-BTRIOFT-A/B/M-OAIE ~ A Rising Mass Movement Attracts And Holds A Following Not By Its Doctrine And Promises – But – By The Refuge It Offers From The – Anxieties / Barrenness / Meaninglessness – Of An Individual Existence ~ Eric Hoffer ~ The True Believer ~ 1951

~ T-TEC-SBAR-F-F-TTL-IT-PIAGOC ~ Totalitarianism – The Essential Conviction – Shared By All Ranks – From Fellow-Traveler To Leader – Is That – Politics Is A Game Of Cheating ~ Hannah Arendt ~ The Origins Of Totalitarianism ~ 1951

~ SITUTTHF ~ Statism Is The Ultimate Threat To Human Freedom ~ William Buckley ~ Up From Liberalism ~ 1959

~ BOE ~ Banality Of Evil ~ Hannah Arendt ~ Eichmann In Jerusalem ~ 1963

~ TSHNBITBOTN ~ The State Has No Business In The Bedrooms Of The Nation ~ [French] ~ Pierre Trudeau ~ 22-12-1967

~ TLWTP ~ They Lived What They Preached ~ Erich Fromm ~ Prophets And Priests ~ 1967

~ OT-FO-HTATB-P ~ Only The – False Ones – Have The Ambition To Become – Prophets ~ Erich Fromm ~ Prophets And Priests ~ 1967

~ FEOM-DNATMOTS ~ Free Election Of Masters – Does Not Abolish The Masters Or The Slaves ~ Herbert Marcuse ~ One-Dimensional Man ~ 1969

~ OP-SDTJ-A-WAPHOTP-CBAIATDP ~ Ordinary People – Simply Doing Their Jobs – And – Without Any Particular Hostility On Their Part – Can Become Agents In A Terrible Destructive Process ~ Stanley Milgram ~ Obedience To Authority ~ 1974

~ EI ~ Economic Imperialism ~ Fred Hirsch ~ The Social Limits To Growth ~ 1976

~ T-OPS-A-U-W-TBIBLANWS ~ The – Ordinary Political Safeguards – Are – Unreliable – When – The Burdens Imposed By Law Are Not Widely Shared ~ Cass Sunstein ~ Laws Of Fear ~ 2005

~ B-IAS-MB-FONOTR-A-S-NRD ~ Both – Individuals And Societies – May Be – Fearful Of Nonexistent Or Trivial Risks – And – Simultaneously – Neglect Real Dangers ~ Cass Sunstein ~ Laws Of Fear ~ 2005

~ TWOSHBOTBTWCFWL-B-MWC ~ The Whole Of Society Has Been Organized To Believe That We Can’t Function Without Leaders – But – Maybe We Can ~ David Bohm ~ On Dialogue ~ 1996

~ TPO-OTTP-IRF-RFTF-IA-GP ~ The Principle Of – Obligation To The Public – In Return For – Rights From The Public – Is A – Generalisable Principle ~ John McMurtry ~ Values ~ 2002

~ RFPP ~ Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed ~ Lawrence Lessig ~ Free Culture ~ 2004

~ IITATDU-NTCWUAAR(WAWWD) ~ It Is The Act That Defines Us – Not The Cause We Use As A Rationale (We Are What We Do) ~ Gordon Livingston ~ Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart ~ 2004

~ B-WFGTDTRT-CBAHE-AA-TOP ~ But – Waiting For Government To Do The Right Thing – Can Be A – Hazardous Enterprise – And A – Test Of Patience ~ Andrew Nikiforuk ~ Pandemonium ~ 2006

~ RHIOR ~ Rot Has Its Own Rationale ~ William Bonner + Lila Rajiva ~ Mobs Messiahs And Markets ~ 2007

~ C&ID ~ Cooperation And Its Discontents ~ Mark Buchanan ~ The Social Atom ~ 2007

~ TOOAVMDEOTOIWPV ~ The Outcome Of A Vote May Depend Entirely On The Order In Which The People Voted ~ Mark Buchanan ~ The Social Atom ~ 2007

~ UFM ~ Untruths For Money ~ Matthew Goodman ~ The Sun And The Moon ~ 2008

~ TQGIOWTMRDMTP ~ The Quiet Gathering Is Often Where The Most Radical Decision Making Takes Place ~ Joe Calloway ~ Becoming A Category Of One ~ 2009

~ WTAP ~ Winner-Take-All Politics ~ Jacob Hacker + Paul Pierson ~ Winner-Take-All Politics ~ 2010

~ SWPNTOITHBEWTW-ATSN ~ Sometimes What Politicians Need To Do Is To Hear Bankers Explain What They Want – And Then Say No ~ John Lanchester ~ I.O.U. ~ 2010

~ TO-AN-T-P-O-F-B-P-I-A-I ~ The Obstacles – Are Not – Technical – Practical – Or – Financial – But – Political – Intellectual – And – Ideological ~ Susan George ~ Whose Crisis, Whose Future? ~ 2010

~ ITFPWAHT-BS-RTTRC-WATFATPET ~ It’s Tempting For People Who Are Hurting To – Blame Scapegoats – Rather Than The Real Culprits – Who Are Too Far Away To Provide Easy Targets ~ Susan George ~ Whose Crisis, Whose Future? ~ 2010

~ IWTTPTPTWTATS ~ Institutions Will Try To Preserve The Problem To Which They Are The Solution ~ Clay Shirky ~ Cognitive Surplus ~ 2010

~ TBPOTRIHTMAHSCCOHBIIAAPRCABCASTOC ~ The Basic Problem Of The Revolution Is How To Make A Hitherto Subaltern Class Capable Of Hegemony Believe In Itself As A Potential Ruling Class And Be Credible As Such To Other Classes ~ Eric Hobsbawm ~ How To Change The World ~ 2011

~ WG-CT-WW ~ Water Grabs – Could Trigger – Water Wars ~ Fred Pearce ~ The Land Grabbers ~ 2012

~ RI ~ Restore Integrity ~ David Cay Johnston ~ The Fine Print ~ 2012

~ WOIGHTMP-ISIGPTBIRTPTWBSAAW ~ When One Interest Group Holds Too Much Power – It Succeeds In Getting Policies That Benefit Itself – Rather Than Policies That Would Benefit Society As A Whole ~ Joseph Stiglitz ~ The Price Of Inequality ~ 2012

~ T-GMDICP-IA-TRAROM ~ The – Great Missing Debate In Contemporary Politics – Is About – The Role And Reach Of Markets ~ Michael Sandel ~ What Money Can’t Buy ~ 2012

~ C-AN-P-A-M-IN-S ~ Corporations – Are Not – People – And – Money – Is Not – Speech ~ Thom Hartman ~ The Crash Of 2016 ~ 2013

~ B-AAAP-A-AHB ~ Banking – Is All About Politics – And – Always Has Been ~ Charles Calomiris + Stephen Haber ~ Fragile By Design ~ 2014

~ CD-TAMOL-AMB-LMG-WDAOI ~ Countless Decisions – That Affect Millions Of Lives – Are Made By – Like-Minded Groups – Who Don’t Allow Outside Input ~ Dean Burnett ~ The Idiot Brain ~ 2016

~ A-IC-TSIGUT-A(TROTBBD)-A-T(TROP)-AE-P(TROTPR)-WA-N ~ An – Ideological Change – The Strange Idea Grew Up That – Aristocracy (The Rule Of The Best By Descent) – And – Theocracy (The Rule Of Priests) – And Even – Plutocracy (The Rule Of The Present Rich) – Were All – Nasty ~ Dierdre McCloskey ~ Bourgeois Equality ~ 2016

~ IATDBTAL-ITPOF-WTP-SDF ~ Indifference About The Distinction Between Truth And Lies – Is The Precondition Of Fascism – When Truth Perishes – So Does Freedom ~ Simon Schama ~ 2017

~ SHDTST ~ Street Hustlers Do The Same Thing ~ Gary Lachman ~ Dark Star Rising ~ 2018

~ TPOC ~ The Politics Of Chaos ~ Gary Lachman ~ Dark Star Rising ~ 2018