John Cleese got it right thirty years back: Virtue is built on the targeted “Other”
…. thanks to Fiar Dinkum whose note said “John Cleese recorded this 30 years ago, but he could have recorded it today”
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Thuppahi's Blog · This web site presents the interventions of MICHAEL ROBERTS in the public realm with reference to Sri Lankan political affairs. It will embrace the politics of cricket as well. ROBERTS was educated at St. Aloysius College in Galle and the universities of Peradeniya and Oxford. He taught History at Peradeniya University and Anthropology at Adelaide university. He is now retired and lives in Adelaide.
Actually, John Ckeese said this, not me
I mean John Cleese. Big fingers, small keyboard on phone
He’s right and it shows how humour can clarify certain truths about the human behaviour.