Fred,

I am a wasp. My people have been here since Jamestown. I know the government is out of control and I know the powers that be are very good at co-opting any resistance. I see it from both sides.

I just don't see the logic of confronting a failing system and be one of those it focuses its frustration on.

I take the cosmic view, even if you consider it a cop out. I grew up as a younger child in a large family and I learned very early on that nuance and subtlety can prevail over brute force. The bull is power. The matador is art. I am not confronting it for moral failings, but logical ones. As I keep pointing out, to culture good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. Telling the demons they are bad only confirms them. It's telling them they are stupid, that confuses them.

So I think banking needs the attention, not politics. Money without leadership is like bacteria. All appetite and no judgement.

Obviously politics has just become a sideshow and not where the real power lays. Those clowns can get up and tell us which country to invade next, but they are not the ones deciding whether invading other countries is a wise use of our talents and wealth in the first place.

I am not going to be distracted.

When the bubble truly bursts, people will be running around, yelling and screaming even more, but eventually the fires will die out and some new growth will start again. Hopefully a little wiser.