"For the moment, however, a different understanding of freedom reigned supreme, one that reveled in the unimpeded reign of economic enterprise, yet tolerated the coercive surveillance of private life and individual conscience. The proposerity of the 1920s and the elimination of "widespread poverty" (or so President Hoover claimed in his inaugural address of 1929) seemed to vindicate this definition of freedom. When the economic crash came, it would be swept aside..."
-Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom, pp. 192-3

a child of democracy struggling to be born

Progressive pre-emption

Much as we adore the self-satirising nature of Our Dear Leader, we at Lazenbee feel duty bound to point out to the Behaviour Actualisation community that bad form is no substitute for full spectrum dominance.
After all, if this keeps up, the "people" may start to notice.

Euston - we have a problem!

"It is an old and historically established maxim that obsolete social forces, nominally still in possession of all the attributes of power and continuing to vegetate long after the basis of their existence has rotted away, inasmuch as the heirs are quarrelling among themselves over the inheritance even before the obituary notice has been printed and the testament read -- that these forces once more summon all their strength before their agony of death, pass from the defensive to the offensive, challenge instead of giving way, and seek to draw the most extreme conclusions from premises which have not only been put in question but already condemned."

A "special" relationship

"...can I buy you dinner?"

Back with a vengeance

"What is unbelievably depressing about the...government's response is that they see, in the evidence about greenhouse gases, not an opportunity to promote environmental concern but a chance to make the case for nuclear power."

Investor news

We're always delighted to see new, innovative, solutions-based thinking at work. While the artless whine, the art world dreams of a better future. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, as Joey Bishop no doubt said.

And are we surprised that the effervescent Bono is one of those helping to pave the way forward?

No.

Ignore the man behind the curtain

"I defy anyone on the basis of this evidence to say that is an unreasonable demand for the international community to make when, after all, it is only the same demand that we have made for 11 years and he has rejected."

Behave!

One of the things that those of us in the Behaviour Actualisation community have been banging on about for quite some time now is that if you're going to achieve your ends, you must take control.

And yet, we have watched in stupefied amazement at the inept handling of the present situation. While it has been amazing to see the degree to which the Enabling community is willing to "pull the wool over its own eyes", no one should be under any illusions that the "public" will never wake up to the fact it is being offered the same shell game.

If things don't pick up some time soon, we at Lazenbee may need to take up Prof Blankenship's offer of sanctuary on Planet Q-78.

In the meantime, please - could everyone remember that the point of surplus acquisition is not simply "to make a profit" - but the ultimate goal: "the privatisation of the public".