Disgusted by the happenings in Washington and on Wall Street? You should be. You just got fleeced by Wall Street and the U.S. Congress for about a trillion dineros (that's trillion with a 'T'). And, you didn't even notice – like a pickpocket or a thief in the night. Some would prefer to call it a daring daylight robbery. Absolute power corrupts – absolutely. Still true.

A character in the 1991 film Slacker called the Old Anarchist had some parting words for a misguided would-be thief. The character was played by Louis Mackey (1926-2004), a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas. Maybe his words will offer some sort of antidote for your rage.

To those (few) humans in whom I have faith: I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not – that one endures.

Dirque du Soleil

He's from the past, so he knows the future...

dirque@erichatheway.com

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