From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have just finished reading a splendid book, Only Human,
by Tom Holt.
In it were these two gems:
"Light is, after all, a bit like freedom; take it away
gradually and people won't notice it isn't there any
more. And if they do notice, get the papers to tell 'em
it gives you cancer. That's how elections are won."
And -
"The lemming waggled its whiskers. 'Well,' it said,
'there was that lemming, remember, and it wanted to be
the leader, and it said Don't jump. And so what I was
thinking was, instead of jumping, why don't we try
politics instead?' Some of the lemmings asked for further
details. What, they asked, is politics?
'Ah,' the lemming replied enthusiastically. 'Listen to
this.' So the lemming told them about politics; and after
a show of paws, they decided to give it a whirl. First
they had an election. Then, once they'd chosen their
leader, they held an improvised inauguration ceremony
and invested their new head of state with full powers to
represent their interests and act with full and unfettered
discretion on their behalf in all matters appertaining to
the public interest and the future of the species.
Then they threw him over the cliff.
'So that's politics, is it?' a lemming said, as they made
their way back towards the grassy hollow where the nice
roots were. 'You know, I think it could quite easily
catch on.' "
- Definitely a case for incorporation into electoral
reform methinks...
Tim : )
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