For example some champagne socialist (who inherited a lot of supermarkets and bought himself a position in Mr Blair’s government) decides he want to become Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (it will be a new thing to impress people with at dinner parties).

So the man drops Cambridge a few million and the push out the existing Chancellor (on grounds of “ill health” although the position is not an executive role – and Prince Philip, who had been the Chancellor, then goes on a official visit to Australia).

Then there is a the “election” and all is done.

Think about it.

Bribes, lies and rigging.

The Cambridge elite are NOT monsters (they really are not) – they just think that is how people in the commercial world behave.

And some of them DO behave like this (George Soros, Warren Buffett – and so on), of course other people (Jon Huntsman senior, the Koch brothers – and so on) do NOT behave like this – but the “liberal” elite, do not know these people very well (if at all).

So when dealing with “commercial” matters the Cambrige elite act in a vile way – because they think everyone does (look back into the records of the various elite clubs at Cambridge and so on – the contempt for people in “trade” is obvious, they are considered vile people because of their “vile” occupations).

With this cultural attitude (described, for example, by Hunter Lewis in his book “Where Keynes Went Wrong”) would you not want to roll back commercial life as much as possible?

Oxford looks back to Aristotle (a man of many virtues – but no great friend of businessmen), but Cambridge looks back to Plato – someone with a fantatical hatred of businessmen (because he believed their world to be utterly vile).

With such a view it is only natural to seek to increase the role of government (and reduce the role of the vile “private sector”) as much as possible.

And, almost needless to say, Harvard followed Cambridge – and most American universities followed the Harvard way.

“But Paul – many businessmen and Conservative party politicians have been to Cambridge, and Peterhouse has historically been a very conservative college and……”.

No doubt many libertarians have been to Cambridge also.

But such a reply misses my point – my point being about a general cultural and intellectual atmosphere, not about exceptions to it.

The problem is not so much the government as the liberal education systems across the Western world. For example most UK politicians (and certainly the majority of the current cabinet) have had the same liberal education – mostly doing PPE’s at Oxford and Cambridge. Their European equivelents attend different institutions and obtain different qualifications, but the programming is all pretty much the same.

Don’t blame Cambridge for PPE, only Ofxord teaches that dodgy degree which seems to give only a tenuous grasp of any of its three subjects. However, Cambridge cannot escape its connection to J M Keynes. Sadly, I doubt it wants to.

And interesting comments.

This is why the primary views of politicians across the political spectrum appear identical in most respects, the fundamentals of Big State, ‘Keynsian spending’ (usually without ‘Keynsian surpluses’) and European unity are indoctrinated from almost the first day of University.

Given this it is unsurprizing that they are all headed like Lemmings (the game, not the animal) to throw themselves off a cliff by following the paper money cycle to its obvious and inevitable conclusion.

This is why I am transfering the majority of my assets and business (as well as my own arse) to the far east, in the hope of escaping the worst excesses of the inevitable collapse of western paper money.

I’ll probably still be screwed, but being screwed in a tropical climate might be more enjoyable.