30-01-2014, 08:01 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:This, for me, is a reactive response to his wealth.
It has often occurred to me that the truly rich and powerful often do spend a great deal more of their time suffering from paranoid fears and other psychosis, because deep down they realise that the inequality they represent and propagate, is a betrayal of their own inner-selves. That is why, I think, that many of them go on to found and fund charities to aid the poor - as a salve to their conscience.
The irony, I think, regarding the rich and powerful is that they could have their cake and eat it too. Take the Saudi royals, instead of oppressing their people and being continually paranoid about being assassinated they could easily make the whole Saudi society prosperous and happy and eliminate the well earned source of their paranoia. But these people don't think the same way that regular people do, they are in a competition with the other rich and powerful to have more. They have a sick sense of entitlement and cannot see the forest for the trees.