Excellent. Should be published as an op ed or letter to editor. I would just drop the word "male" in the last line. The issue is "power corrupts" and therefore checks and balances are needed, always.
arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 4:40 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] Yesterday was Reality Day Yesterday, an academic who spent his lifetime in relative obscurity became the happiest man on earth. Also yesterday, the career of a banker of world-wide eminence was brought down to something equivalent to a Dickensian boy-clerk. Yesterday, with the likely confirmation of the Higgs Boson, the world of science may have gained its first chink of light into the workings of the universe, 95% of which, at present, is still a total mystery. Yesterday, with the most decisive rupture yet of the hitherto incestuous relationship between high politics and investment banking during the last century, ordinary folk may have gained their first chink of light into the workings of the currency world -- printed banknotes, arcane derivatives, artificial interest rates and all -- which has been a closed shop to them so far. The action of the first, of course, took place at the 27 kilometre circular underground particle-crasher, the CERN reactor, in Switzerland -- the most sophisticated piece of engineering in the world, built to the finest tolerances. It cost about $4 billion. The action of the second took place in a small unprepossessing committee room of the House of Commons in London, the most sophisticated financial centre in the world. It cost nothing, apart from a few carafes of mineral water and plastic cups. Professor Peter Ware Higgs, 83, wiped away a tear of joy when the discovery of his long-awaited sub-atomic particle was announced. Mr Robert Edward Diamond, 61, ex CEO of Barclays Capital, Barclays Corporate and Barclays Bank wasn't observed wiping away a tear yesterday as his career and Barclays' reputation was humbled, but he might well do so in private. Indeed, if I were his doctor, I'd probably advise his family to put him on suicide watch for a few weeks. The immediate effects of the Higgs Boson discovery will be zero for a while before the minds of the 10,000 visiting scientists who make use of the CERN reactor start to chew over the matter. With luck, the immediate effects of the exposure of the Diamond's negligent management and cowboy antics of young traders at Barclays and about ten other investments banks in America and Europe who've affected the movements of $450 trillion and the lives of millions of people and small businesses ought, if there is any justice in the world or any common sense in governments, reinforce the so-far feeble attempts at reforming the banking and financial sector. We'll see. At all events, yesterday ought to be Reality Day as regards to two of our deepest instincts and where they take us, the one being our deep curiosity, the other being the male's need for power and status. Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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