Public Lives of the Rich and Infamous

An even bigger crisis than any of those I usually recount appears to be opening up before me.  I have just received notification that...

...Kate the Great has bought a significant number of shares in one of the main companies involved in the Immense Capabilities Boondoggle Consortium.

To make matters worse, Kate has been offered the opportunity to live in the consortium's headquarters, namely the house next door to my own.  I am most distressed and rather tearful and fearful.  Kate has been known in the past to gain vast quantities of financial and mineral resources from several sources and to buy up libraries, news services and many other institutions for her own glorification.  Nothing is safe or sacred any more.

I do hope the consortium is not currently seeking permission to mine underneath my beautiful kitchen garden in search of pink diamonds, lucrative and ludicrous smelly energy, or even somewhere to store excessive quantities of a greenhouse gas.  Such activities should never happen in mine or your back yard or lovely garden.



Kate's love of pink diamonds

An Australian pink diamond

A fracking nuisance

Guests and gas

Carbon sequestration



You may recall that I briefly mentioned Kate recently, in an oblique and relatively non-obligatory way.  I have also previously mentioned the consortium and the house next door to my own.

A Mr Swan has recently been expressing concerns about rich and infamous persons behaving in a domineering manner in public.  I am more concerned about negative impacts on the private lives and civic-mindedness of nice, ordinary, forgotten persons such as myself.  It is a topic I frequently discuss with Mr Menzies.

I believe both Mr Swan and Mr Menzies wish to assist me in overcoming the excessive power behind both the Immense Capabilities Boondoggle Consortium and the LobbyRule Party.

Mr Mozart is also interested in preventing excessive power, of both the political and musical varieties.  He does not believe anyone has the right to use amplification if it interferes with the lives of others.

You may be aware that Mr Mozart considers himself to be middle class, like Mr Menzies and Mr Swan.  I, on the other hand, prefer to think in terms other than class.  I am, after all, a leader of the 21st century Enlightenment.  My mind is always open to a wide range of attitudes regarding latitudes and social status.

So, my dear reader, what do you believe should be done about the domineering public lives of the rich and infamous?