Let me just finish by saying we have to remember I think that there is a direct relationship between big abstractions and the regression, the shrinking of the public good. Big abstractions are bad for democracy, they're bad for the public good.
Democracy is a positive creative evocation of our limitations, of our reality.
It's not natural, democracy, we created it, we put it in place, and I think we've forgotten the energy which it required our fathers, and it almost sounds like a clich , but it's not our fathers and our mothers and our grandparents and our great-grandparents to put in place the basic structures of Australian and Canadian etc democracy such as the public education system. You know this whole business that nations are about love, I mean it's nonsense. I think this year, next year, the next decade if we want to turn this thing away from disaster. Let me just finish with a number of points. We've been at this for 2500 years, we kind of know.