This phrase has been popping through my mind a great deal of late. I seem to have assimilated the general principle of the idea as I certainly don’t remember learning about Rousseau. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract)

Anyway, I seem to recall a vague memory of Wilson making this “contract” after Heath had failed against the unions in the early 70’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Contract_(Britain)) If those times called for rewriting of the “social contract” because one side (the unions) had too much power, then these times surely *scream* for the same thing because the power of politicians, the (laughably entitled) Elite and, possibly worst of all, the corporations (incorporating their bloodsuckers the Waltons, the Kochs et al) are killing democratic society.

That so many public services have to be cut back because so many companies (Google “Do No Evil”) avoid taxes is a moral failure.

It seems curious that in the west, we view young men who take up arms in the name of fundamentalist religion against us as abhorrent. I wonder, and the Scottish referendum suggests that the politicization of youth is gathering pace, what the PTB will make of things when the youth of Britain decide a new contract is required…