The impossible is occassionally possible

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Re: “The new forms of tyranny are well documented”, Have Your Say, November 16

According to the theory about black holes, such is the gravitational influence inherent to the phenomenon that nothing should be able to escape their embrace, not even light itself. However, the late physicist Stephen Hawking postulated that blackbody radiation is emitted as a result of quantum activity near the event horizon, the so-called “point of no return”. 
I offer this analogy to remind the readership that the impossible is occasionally possible after all, and sometimes things manage to escape. Think of it this way: Nigel Pike avowedly holds himself to be diametrically opposed to democracy, seeing as it conflicts with his extremist instincts and skewed, self-centred worldview. Indeed, many of his confused upchucks here are predicated on his open intolerance of the “Other”. So much for the fictitious “empty vessel” bluster crawling out of said echo chamber.
Pike, the bull who carries his own china shop with him, is an unashamed apologist for some of the more corrosive, narrow-minded ideologies currently occupying the European and American political landscapes, epitomised by Donald Trump. Indeed, and given his propensity for attacking those who cannot fight back, we should not be surprised that he picks on people who have done him no harm. Further-more, Pike shamelessly uses throwaway words like “tyranny” as the mendacity of choice when it suits his agenda. Oh, the irony.
I suggest that he reads the letter about the Frankfurt School on the same page as his latest outburst, the better to try and grasp what it actually signifies rather than what his echo chamber deludes itself into assuming.
Dr Frank