Elite is a rather flattering term for what is in fact a clutch of overgrown teacher’s pets.
Apr 262017
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Apr 122017
The conquerors enslave the conquered, when the gap between them is small; when it is large, they exterminate them.
Apr 102017
A suppressed idea mutates to ever more virulent forms, which are then invoked to justify its continued suppression.
Apr 042017
The desire to rule would be impotent without the desire to be ruled.
Mar 172017
In order that our boys shall not have died in vain, a great many of our boys die in vain.
Feb 272017
Leader, n. The champion follower.
Feb 162017
Elite political opinion is influential because it is believed to be. When the belief disappears, so does the influence.
Jan 182017
Crime committed on a large enough scale ceases to be criminal. It becomes business as usual, or Realpolitik, or statesmanship.
Jan 052017
Historically killing deprived its victims only of life; the modern refinement is to deprive them first of agency.
Jan 022017
Most of the enlistees in a struggle against oppression regard it merely as a struggle for spoils; the rest are insane.