I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour and particularly Old Labour does.
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Lorne finally said Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
A book is sent out into the world and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible Homer Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.