I wrote: ...future exploitation is best left to specialists.
That should of course be ...future exploitation is best left to specialists, and what the specialists actually do, should be shrouded in ultimate mystery, authority must have its mystique. For example, a war is fought in Iraq. Why is this war being fought then ? Is it about oil ? Is it about the defence of the West ? Is it about an evil dictator ? Is it about something else ? Do we know why the war is being fought ? Is the war worth it ? Great terms of debate, great new detective story. In this regard, you're better of reading the words of Goldstein in Orwell's novel 1984: there must be a war, because it's class society, it's capitalism, it's bourgeois society, it's imperialism, and if you want to live you life in peace, you ought to be an artist or something - until art gets attacked, and soft eggs end up in the Hilton Hotel, and Herman Brood commits suicide by throwing himself out of the top of the Hilton Hotel. If all we are saying is "give peace a chance", we are gambling with the future, because while we're being peaceful, we're being attacked. There's the limits of Capital, and then there's human limits. J.
