Rightangle, you got that damn straight! I agree with you in every point you said. I also think that a lot of *us*, as you said, think in this way. The question for me is always: what the hell are we to do about it? I mean, we somehow need to band together and *do* something about this mess! The problem is, a lot of us are in the survival trap, where you have to spend a large portion of my time working just to pay the rent and feed the family. This is of course exactly what the ruling elite want (threat to bio-survival in a society of excess), since it keeps the thinking people who aren't in the power-game too busy to actually do anything about this situation. Anybody read "When Corporations Rule the World" by Korten? I started it awhile ago but have been distracted by work (bio-survival threat mentioned above). I haven't gotten to the good parts yet, but in the intro he says that one of his goals in writing that book was to outline an alternative course of action. -z