A quote courtesy of Hector Rottweiller's Web Log, which has now gone into hiatus.
"Under empire, rhetoric cannot look to the future, and can exist in the present only as hypothesis and speculation. Its most significant role is in rewriting the past to suit the whims of power--but in this, it need convince no one, because of the very fact of power. It is nothing but an ornament, a diversion, a way for personal pride to pass the time."
Mike Edwards, Power Words