LOL! Well, Peace, I think that putting Shatner at the helm...and not only in the USA, mind you, but give him world power...and then, by God, you'd see some changes! Yesiree. My head swims just thinking about it.

Don, I sympathize with your viewpoint. I even empathize with it a bit. ;-) By all means, if you think you can do something about the great forces in charge of society, go to it. That goes for anyone else who thinks they can do something. Guest figures to do something by writing to his state's Attorney General. Great.

But, hey, do I think I can do something about it? No, frankly. I am one little person living out a life here, a life that is in its latter stages now, and for me it's just one life in a series of many. My main job in this life is to do something about me....about my own personal development as an evolving soul. I've got karma to work out. I've got rough edges to smooth out and weaknesses to work on eradicating. I am not here to redirect the gigantic political trends and forces of the early 21st century...or to control other people. My big job is to control myself.

But that doesn't mean I'm not interested in what's going on around me.

As far as I can see, big money runs everything. We live in a system that is of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. And it's been that way for a very, very long time (long before the USA even existed). It's quite something to observe.

I would be foolish to become so bitter about it or so addicted to fretting and raging about it that I screw up my own life experience in the process. My own life, after all, is what I am here to experience, right? Part of being alive is just accepting that most of the world is going to do whatever the heck it decides to, regardless of what you think about it, because just like you they have their own free will about what to do and how to do it.