![]() ![]() I fear for the shape of things which may come from the heat of O'Neill's plague. ![]() It's like some terrible plastic memory sitting there in the dark of our minds, ready on the instant to reshape itself into primitive patterns the moment the heat touches it. There's a peculiar human susceptibility you see when you look at the Soviets, them building an almost exact copy of the czarist regimes: the same paranoia, the same secret police, the same untouchable military, and the murder squads, the Siberian death camps, the lid of terror on creative imagination, deportation for the ones who cannot be killed off or bought off. This may be the lot of any government, Marxist Russians included. Such separation requires docile Subjects as well. ![]() Sometimes it's done with great subtlety as it was in America, the slow accumulations of power, law upon law and all of it manipulated by an elite whose monopoly it is to understand the private language of injustice. They always resolve themselves into widely separated Ascendants and Subjects, the latter being more numerous than the former, of course. ![]() It comes of having lost our ancient ways - the simpler laws, the rath and the family at the core of society. It has a peculiar shape with the Irish, though. To Ned Brown For his years of friendship PRECEDE There's a lust for power in the Irish as there is in every people, a lusting after the Ascendancy where you can tell others how to behave. ![]()
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