Tug of War

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. - Oscar Wilde

While the world is running rampage on economic crisis and swine flu, some of our top political people are busy playing tug of war over the General-Estates...(remember the Tennis Court Oath). They have a simple choice of giving back to power to the people to choose but they rather sit in court playing. Sometimes I wonder how did they expect Mat Rempit to have courtesy when the one sitting on top is acting like a truant child.

It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. - Benjamin Disraelli