“What’s wrong with David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’?” you ask in your leader and article about the British prime minister’s new venture (“No Such Thing” and “Platoons under Siege,” February 12, 2011). Many things, indeed. Most of them you tackle. Quite valiantly, too. But there is something that you miss entirely: Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” of the Sixties. Having inherited John Kennedy’s throne quite by chance, the hapless president was trying to buttress the American society, which was already starting to show signs of fatigue after the mighty boost of World War II, with a few new tricks. All sorts of programs were invented on the spot to ensure social cohesion. And they all led precisely nowhere. What is amazing about Cameron’s pet idea is that his predecessor is not even mentioned. What is even more amazing is that the lag of half a century is sufficient even for the mighty newspaper like yours to miss the trick, as well. The big society? The great society? Hmm, how about the great big society, instead? Cameron and his advisers would surely love this entirely new idea.