"McGrath, had you called Barry a "free market liberal" to his face, you might have disturbed him somewhat. "

Good. And that goes for Reagan. And the English Cobnsevative Party. None of them have the conservative temperament. Neophiles all of them.

Star wars, I ask you...A clear giveaway. A techno-freak. A right wing radical.

The other word for what I'm talking about, I suppose, is Luddite:

"I saw great Cobbett riding, the horseman of the Shires,
And his face was red with judgement and a light of Luddite fires...
A trailing meteor on the Downs,
he rides above the rotting towns,
The Horseman of Apocalypse, the Rider of the Shires"

G.K.Chesterton (An Old Song)