[Pangloss62]

Every time I hear John Lennon's Imagine, I have to laugh. Imagine is about all you could ever do with this world. Power and wealth is in the hands of the most aggressive (or their heirs). When you combine wealth, technology, and intellectual capital with aggressiveness, you pretty much control the world. Altruism is for losers. Those who don't have the wealth and intellectual capital tend toward fanaticism or are satisfied with the bread and circuses our tacky American culture provides. And it's like a disease. Last time I was in Brasil, for example, I stopped to look at the scene before me: to my left was a McDonalds, to my right was a Pizza Hut, across the street was a Blockbuster, and down the street in the distance was a WalMart. We're doomed by our greed.