When our governments want to sell us a course of action they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images devious and prejudicial language dubious linkages weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
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It's part of a writer's profession as it's part of a spy's profession to prey on the community to which he's attached to take away information – often in secret – and to translate that into intelligence for his masters whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
