FN strikes again. Fab. Recd

I don't mean to be unduly contrarian; but business is not rocket science. It doesn't take much to understand it or make one out of whole cloth, so to speak.

It also doesn't take a great mind to read a contract; so a "priesthood" is hardly necessary to interpret for us.

One can be conversant and analytical about a great many things; and also opine about those things with factual certainty. What the Randians and neocons have argued since before The New Deal is certainly predicated on faulty logic, but also perpetuated by out and out lies.

That is why it doesn't take much intelligence to ferret out that our financial, political and judicial institutions are populated with ideological crooks who are tasked with dismantalling this Democracy and substituting it with a Malaysian- style, authoritarian oligarchy.

In fact, it is so obvious that one cannot deny it, cannot run or hide from it; that is why the following quote has always resonated with me:

"A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach, and with regard to the existence of which his nearest and most intimate friends may be ignorant; his mortal danger conceals itself from their eyes, and equally so his regained security. Such a hidden nature, which instinctively employs speech for silence and concealment, and is inexhaustible in evasion of communication, desires and insists that a mask of himself shall occupy his place in the hearts and heads of his friends; and supposing he does not desire it, his eyes will some day be opened to the fact that there is nevertheless a mask of him there--and that it is well to be so."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Thus Spake Zarathustra"

Perfidious? I was just using that very word to describe the way the cook messed up my eggs over easy this morning. Perfidious-that's exactly what I said to the waitress.