Deep down, Donuiel, no matter how whacky his proposition may sound on the surface, is spot on. He has put his finger on a sorry, ugly, persistant truth: Whether because of Jungian archetypes, or some other kind of herd dramatization, the man who throws out the money-changers eventually gets stoned to death, or otherwise taken out.

Barack's the best chance we have had in a decade to make the country move onto a more rational path.

This is not a popular idea to some, because rationality itself is too painful a virtue. Tractability and compliance is much less painful, and more rewarding int he short term. The fact that it undermines civilization is of course not the individual's problem, is it?


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