Yeah Mike, I know that Plato, Aristotle, Socrates and the boys were able to sit and gaze at it and take it all in at a supposively simpler time. And man did they come up with a complicated way of explaining it to us who don't have 20 minutes any more to sit down and read a portion of a treatise.

To many schemers now aday mike, no purists.

I was thinking yesterday at a coffee break after a conversation about men of valor that once roamed the earth. They are no more.

The ego is so strong in our drive now until valor seems a weakness.

You have people who are willing to destroy dialogue because of a comma or capital letter misplaced. Worried about what someone else will think of the race of the misplacer. And in a huff declare a death wish on a generation that would surely include their own beloved. I do understand Mike that not many realize the power of speech and write of idle talk as being hip.

But the issues of a man's heart erupts from his throat.

We are in trouble all around.

One thing though mike, I have always felt that the world was better off with me being me. It certainly takes effort sometimes to stay focused, but I enjoy being able to keep control even as the world tries to wrest it from me.

China is pulsing mike...Africa is a gem in it's eye......watch who makes the deals with her and their rise. all the same though....swiss banque accounts and lavish villas in foriegn places with proxy hanger oners raping the mother land....