Okay, Doug, granted. But what is life actually about...in the final analysis? Is it about money? I don't think so.

Why do you help out your family members when they are in trouble? Would you refuse to do so if they didn't put some money in your hand first?

Why do you defend your country when it is invaded? Would you refuse to do so unless the government paid you a handsome fee first?

Why do you treat your neighbours decently? Would you refuse to do so unless there was a "profit to be made" first by so doing?

Life is actually about love, and we are ALL family...and as a matter of a fact even the animals and plants are family...in a more indirect sense. Without each other, without a bountiful nature around us, our lives would be barren and without hope.

These are philosophical considerations, but they are what lies at the heart of life.

I submit that we are living in a society which has so over-emphasized "the bottom line" that it is digging its own grave in the process.

And it won't matter how much money you have in the bank when they lower you down into that grave...or how many possessions you accumulated...but it will matter who loves and remembers you for the love you demonstrated to them.

It is because the business world denies or is blind to that greater truth that I get upset with the business world. Oh, they may pay lip service to it occasionally, but only so they can sell more product.

- LH