20-12-2012, 07:02 PM
Greg Burnham Wrote:Forgive me for interjecting, but I'd like to make what I believe is an important distinction: Wealthy people do not necessarily equate with powerful people.
While wealth is most certainly required in order to empower on a deep political level, wealth does not necessarily and always corrupt. I have long rejected
the notion that certain famously wealthy individuals are necessarily suspect by virtue of their wealth alone. Don't just follow the money. It is much more
utilitarian to Follow their POWER. From that perspective one can perhaps gain insight into what motivates them to take action and what things they may
perceive to be a threat to their interests and, in some cases, a threat to their existence.
Yes.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene