Captian Horatio Hornblower or Katie's most extraordinary cat

In the beginning there were the children, art and imagination and all was wonderful. Big business saw what was being done by these little ones with their imaginations and they then said. “This could become a source of excellent revenue, a very profitable one at that.” And so they began filling the earth with marketing tools, research and consumer-study groups. They then began to grow tiny little micro publishing houses all over the free and democratic world, replacing children’s imaginations with more reliable grown-up ones. And all was profitable.