Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable:

 - The aim of the High is to remain where they are.

 - The aim of the Low, when they have an aim - for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives - is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

Thus throughout history a struggle which is the same in its main outlines recurs over and over again. For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both. They are then overthrown by the Middle, who enlist the Low on their side by pretending to them that they are fighting for liberty and justice.

As soon as they have reached their objective, the Middle thrust the Low back into their old position of servitude, and themselves become the High. Presently, a new Middle group splits off from one of the other groups, or from both of them, and the struggle begins all over again. Of the three groups, only the Low are never even temporarily successful in achieving their aims. From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters...

After the revolutionary period of the 'fifties and 'sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low. But the new High group, unlike all its foreunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

By comparison with that existing to-day, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient ...and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking... Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.

Canada housing affordibility takes hit (payment costs 50% of income) & Canada's changing family (same-sex-marriage, childless couples, common-law, single parent, poverty). CBC, Sep 12, 2007

Bono gets honourary knighthood (joins Geldof, Gates, Spielberg) & Bono preaches charity (profits from buyouts, tax breaks). BBC/Bloomberg, Mar 29, 2007. Go to BONO ARCH-ARCH CAPITALIST

INDIVIDUAL A THREAT TO THE PARTY (reader wonders why). Apr 13, 2005

WINDMILLS ARE GREEN STALINISM (hundreds of miles of ancient countryside & shoreline will be disfigured). Telegraph, Jul 24, 2004

'Whitefella Jump Up' writes Greer (Australia belongs to Blackfellas). Guardian, Jun 19, 2004. Go to 10.Rulers & STUPID WHITE MEN NOT & DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT BLAME

GULLIVER DESCRIBES GOVERNMENT (a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments). Apr 23, 2004. Go to 10.Rulers

Greenspan urges Social Security cuts (reduce benefits to retirees & keep raising retirement age). MyWay, Feb 26, 2004. Go to GREENSPAN FROM JEKYLL ISLAND

Forces still fear feces (men defecate by sides of roads). National Post, Jan 14, 2004. Go to 12.Ministry of Peace (War) & CANADA'S TRAUMATIZED SOLDIERS

Greenspan defends Chicom's trade surplus (resulting in 2.8 million US job losses due to slave labour & floating currency). Wash Times, Dec 11, 2003. Go to 10.Rulers & GREENSPAN FROM JEKYLL ISLAND & RED CHINA & CAPITALISTS

UK BLAIR'S SOCIETY (this is Orwell's vision). Dec 4, 2003. Go to 4.Old World Destruction