The "power of money" is symptomatic. Money is a token of credibility and confidence. It becomes an obsession when the individual power to generate confidence and belief gets broken down, when his certainty of his own or her own power to generate new connections gets undermined. SOmetimes this comes about by pure physical overwhelm. THe problem is, of course, once one apple in the barrel goes rotten, the rest tend to follow suit to various degrees, and groups engage in a mass copy-fest of poor attitudes and low ethics. An example is the sweep of Republican war-centric beliefs durign the rampup to the Iraq invasion.

So it is not just about money, but also individual strength and ability to communicate and confidence.


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