If reason is an idea and rational society an abstraction, then our whole age has turned and continues to turn upon language. Just as the unleashing of ideas and myths of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cleared the way for endless changes in state and social structures, so the subsequent pinning down and splitting up of language into feudal states has now made it possible for the citizens to participate seriously in society. The inviting humanist irony of the early days has given way to the off-putting rational cynicism and sloganeering of our time. If there was something fatally flawed in those original changes, at the core of reason, then that flaw must still be there, locked up inside the inaccessible structures of our society.

This idea of universal understanding still survives in our memory. Stephane Mallarme, who was later echoed by T.S. Elliot, said that we should "purify the dialect of the tribe." Fortunately for us, as we enter a new millenium - a new era perhaps - one man stands at the forefront of this grand task, this purification rite; the stripping away of byzantine structures in search of our historical outline and our contemporary reality. This man is Kool-FM's very own. The lovely, the talented.......nay the legendary........Brian Bourke!!!

Brian is also an accomplished website designer and manager. He manages the very popular Waterloo Girls Softball Association Website. Click on Brian's picture to check it out!!