anniversary of Vidal Gore's death.
He was of our age but, in a way,
not part of it. In his
passing we
witnessed the departure of a
literary
titan, whose like we
shall not see
again.
polemicist whose natural milieu
would have been the
Age of
Revolutions. Then and as more
recently, he would
have used his
gifts of scholarship, penetrating
mind and wit to
articulate
fundamental truths about how
society should
function by
deconstructing the established
order of things
for the betterment
of man.
Vidal's views on morality
and the
political process were not
accepting of
pragmatism, but
more a reflection of the broad
sweep of history.
These tended to set him
apart
from the ephemera of
contemporary society and
the
fragility of its mores and beliefs,
where political
and moral vision
have been displaced by a
growing democratic deficit
between
government and the
governed.
A true torchbearer for
democracy,
Gore Vidal is quoted as saying
"The genius of
the ruling class is
that it has kept the majority of the
people from ever questioning the
inequity of a system
where most
of the people drudge along paying
heavy
taxes for which they get
nothing in return." His
views on
events in the EU do not
appear to
have been recorded.
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