09-12-2009, 10:10 PM
Quote:Hi,
I couldn't agree more. I think the aspirations of those who want to be the next Trump or Turner are perversions of the dream. Not that there's anything wrong with great expectations or even megalomania. :whistling:
--Pete
And, oddly, I couldn't disagree more. Our countries were built on the backs and corpses of the many who rushed in - searching for that 'get rich quick' opportunity. The California Gold Rush springs to mind. So does the hunt for the NorthWest Passage. And the efforts of those who opened new routes for the fur trade. They may, quite often, have been escaping penury, starvation or other dire things but they had fervent hopes for 'The BIG find'. Indeed, I would argue that is part of humanity. Why else have snake oil salesmen prospered so often? :(
And you may call it righteousness
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake
When civility survives,
But I've had dinner with the Devil and
I know nice from right.
From Dinner with the Devil, by Big Rude Jake