Vanity Fair magazine www.vanityfair.com has an article in its July 2008 issue titled HAS BILL CLINTON LOST HIS MOJO – OR HIS MIND by Todd S. Purdum. This kind of article, depending on how you feel about our political system and the people who have tasted the power connected with it, is always – actually, I’m at a loss for the right word. It does make one wonder how any of us can take many of our politicians seriously. And what’s really amazing is that any of us want to support the monster that our political system has become, since, for the most part, it appears to be about power, money and politics (in that order?).
Reading about the people feeding off the monster is an interesting pasttime. Because really what else is there to say about the power and greed that go on and on and on. Some just can’t get enough no matter how much they manage to accumulate.
And why is that?
. . . I know , for example, that perception is the key to the way we live. Whether we choose to perceive an event as good or bad, as making us happy or sad, truly determines how that event will affect us. I have found time and again that altering my perception changes the world; it can be hostile and forbidding or warm and sheltering, depending on how I view it.
– THE WORLD IS AS YOU DREAM IT by John Perkins
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