ECONOMIC RATIONALISM Economic Rationalism, like heroin, invades a vacuum. Its tyranny feeds on little people - and little people invite it. The Middle-Class Left invites it, by its intellectual laziness, smug narcissism, and loudly-talking-in-public-places Good Opinion of Itself. The late Working-Class, now the Subcontracting Class, invites it by their loss of solidarity and culture to materialism.  Economic Rationalism is the home of the talentless. Under its management, Australia's SBS, once the best TV station in the world, now looks like an in-flight magazine. The quality is squeezed out of our culture by the relentless weight of management - carefully chosen for their lack of imagination, and Obedience.  Obedience to who ? Cui Bono ? Well, of course, the Corporations. The soul-less, the creators of a language devoid of life, for all of us to speak and think in. The authoritarian organisers of the race to the bottom-line.  Their commentators are all like Gerard Henderson of the Sydney Morning Herald, agents of entropy, Black Belts of inertia. They talk with the enthusiasm of a civil servant who writes because it is 9 o'clock in the morning again. Hitler's was a corporate Reich also, but this one has no room for the genius of a Riefenstahl or a Speer. There are no strange dreams of Aryan mythology, just the clicking of accountants' keyboards, and the fatal litany of dead words. An Iraqi Holocaust - 600,000 - lie smothered under the snow of “collateral damage”.