I am reissuing the personal manifesto I have issued in previous general election campaigns and will no doubt continue to issue until time runs out on me.
In the background of all our lives there exists a fundamental and dominating lie. It is that material success counts more than anything else – indeed, that nothing else counts but material success.
People are not simply, or even principally, thinking machines. Most people absorb much more information from sense impressions and emotions than they do from abstract symbols. The world is not only, or even most importantly, material. Scientific reason can never be more than part of the story. Human beings are concerned most of their thinking lives with values whereas, as Ludwig Wittgenstein, that most exacting of philosophers, kept ramming home to anyone
