Walks like a duck...

Sometimes I go to a lake, squint and the reflections of the sun on the mildly rippled surface look just like candles. Today, owing to lack of wind, there where only two short ones on the side of a small branch that swam in the water.

I'm a little exhausted, so I'll write a very easy post to write. I've just been listening to David Knight on the roots of the modern left. Universities? Sure. We studied and they plotted. But then we believed that being qualified would serve us better than being part of a subversive network. In a sense it's fair and square: a bet on the future. So the outsiders of the outsiders made it big time. Almost humiliating. But wait a second: Are not the inception and the breakthrough point of any enterprise two different things? And are universities not full of odd characters that go by unnoticed?

So, why would anyone pick the oddest specimen around as his champion? Class divisions don't exist in America? It is more promising to divide Americans along different notions of sexual identity? Oh, yeah? I think Occupy Wall Street worked just fine. And the direr the economic plight of the people is getting, the better it is working. On the other hand: the more someone needs feeding, the safer the hand is that feeds him.

And I'm not ashamed to ask again: Nothing to see here?

In the early 80s? When the man on the left was best known for shaking the hand of the man below?

Are you deaf, dumb, blind and stupid? (Well, it sounds better than kidding me...) No, this whole thing is not worked by communists, even if some self-described communists came up with the slogans you now see written large.

Oh, well, another post. I'll try to return to form.