Sunday 6th September

-[How simple Janek makes it all seem.  Of course, in essence he was right, the con-gloms did create jobs for people.  But only because we forced them to.  He has still failed to grasp the delicate balance of our society.  The con-gloms and gov are not one and the same thing, but each knows they have to work closely with the other.  The con-gloms only trade with Gov permission and complete control of their profit and prices, and Gov only exists because someone needs to control the whole show.  The world’s economy has survived for almost thirty years without a major catastrophe; this was unheard of in the oft-lauded Twentieth Century.

Unseen by the likes of Janek though, adjustments are being made constantly to keep the whole system in some sort of balance.  Of course we turn a blind eye to the occasional small farmer employing people and paying them in food.  We tolerate a little slack in the situation at the edges in order that the centre remains strong.

In life everything is a compromise, although of course our long-term objective is to eliminate all risk and create a perfectly harmonious and sustainable society, we know that that can only be created with patience and a few failures along the way.  At least we have a plan, imperfect as it may be.  What sort of plan does Janek have?  What has he really discovered; that humans left to their own devices soon degenerate into alcohol and drug dependence, prostitution and working for scraps of food.

Some discovery – we could have told him that for free.

For the moment he seems content, but as you must be aware, this won’t last for that long.  Our friend will soon discover that life amongst these misfits is less than perfect.  Let us leave him for now in what he thinks is a new-found freedom.]-