The alarm was sounded some time ago. It has become rather loud in the last 6 months.

For various reasons various groups will not hear it. I really don't know what we can do about this. One group which saddens me deeply is the "less advanatged," they do not register the mainstream.

Another group which angers me is the bankers, in traditional society they were a force of sometimes destructive conservatism, but this is no longer. They have let loose the money of heir institutions and the tax payers into something which defies all common sense.

This marks a society in trouble, the trend is manifested all over, an optimistic don't worry be happy approach is all over economic choices and led to Iraq. The main reason we went in was that the admistration thought it would be easy, a quick victory, a rise in the polls, a transformed world.

One problem with unrealistic optimism is that it often leads to a pessimism equally detached from reality.

And traditional checks in the system are not working.