Meditate on This...

Further proof of the inverse relationship between artistic acheivement and sensibility in today's world....

US film director David Lynch hopes to raise $7bn to fund a giant meditation programme he believes will bring about world peace. The Oscar-nominated movie-maker is to launch the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-based Education and World Peace.

The foundation's aim is to raise money to allow meditation to be taught in schools and eventually spread across the world by practitioners.

"But the real joke is that we don't laugh when the US government develops a bomb for $2bn that only serves to kill people. "They spend billions of dollars on military projects and people don't bat an eyelid. That's a pathetic, sick joke."

I'm guessing Mr. Lynch isn't planning to start in the Saudi and Pakistani madrasas, either.