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	`...it is an important feature of the ideological system 
	to impose on people the feeling that they really are incompetent 
	to deal with these complex and important issues: they'd better 
	leave it to the captain...'

	As Andrew rather insistently tells us, Noam must be right. 
	I freely acknowledge that the system's worked with me. 
	In fact it's worked a treat.  Whenever the question of European 
	federation comes up, or global warming, or what to do about 
	battered wives, or should anything be done with Saddam or 
	whatever, my instinct for participatory democracy undergoes 
	instant blight. 	

	I look into the honest, boyish faces of Bill Clinton & Tony Blair 
	& thank God that the captains are on the bridge.  Where could 
	you possibly find a more intelligent, concerned, wise, splendid 
	pair of men ?  Not, I hope, among the general specialists at 
	the end of the bar.

	Scottie B.

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