What have the Peoples’ Republic of China, The United States of America and Trinidad and Tobago got in common? Along with many countries in between, all have provided members of that select band of the intellectual top 0.01% of the population who read Learning, Science and Society. The elite section of the population who, as Gore Vidal once observed, have existed in every society since the dawn of civilisation, and will carry its benefits through, despite the savagery which surround us on all sides. Who would have thought a small newsblog valiantly managed from a run down office block near East Croydon Station would have had such reach and influence? (No it was not a rat in reception this morning, just a very large field vole)
You’ll notice the pictures at the far left and far right on this post. One depicts the Renaissance, the other, The Enlightenment. Let these two advancing periods of humanity be your watchword dearest readers. For, although it is forgotten now, both ages were filled with cruel and selfish tyrants at the Top, and ignorant, violent rabbles at the Bottom. Yet we plucky Middles came up with all the arts and sciences that made life worth living-and thereby gave the others somewhere to go on holiday. (Actually, we’d prefer it if they stuck to skiing and Benidorm, and left the art galleries to us.) So here, gentle readers is the task before you. Nurture and preserve the spirit of human progress if you can. But above all keep reading. And send us your comments
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