Dear Editor,
If, in the hypothetical Republic of Tuberville in the United Socialist States of Savage the People’s Party, having newly won the first-ever free general elections with a majority massive enough to assure victory at any future elections, yet appoints all its senior workers only on term contracts, ought one to regard as reasonable the action of some of them who refuse employment, giving as their main reason not the lack of security of their personal employment but of seeming hesitancy and fear in the mind of the state for its own security of tenure; action which, in their considered opinion, does not augur well for their families’ futures?
Or might their refusal arguably be viewed, as some commentators on the matter might be won’t to do, as a case where a word, ‘security’ here, has been so inextricably driven into the minds of these intellectuals since pre-conception, there taken root, and over time given birth to an insatiable desire to confess it – at even inconceivable opportunities.
It might well have now become the case that “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting” is not invariably true.
Yours faithfully,
Hilary Lashley-Bobb
