Basically, the world is supposedly run by a small coterie of people.


These people should be able to work together and solve all our

problems.

That they don't or that they try to and mess up means that

they are either incompetent or truly don't have our best

interests at heart.

This disregards the fact that most people try to live their lives

in such a way that they can safely forget their legislators,

leaders and rulers until such time as they need them

for verbal effigy burning or punching bags.

I know there are people who devote every waking and working

moment trying to effect change in the way the world is worked.

I also know that they, too, are capable of having their heads

shoved so far up their particular agendas (agendae?) that

keeping our best interests at heart is a secondary or tertiary

consideration.

Truly global thinking is hard to encompass without slipping

into focusing on a specialty.

The truth is that even the most useless of leaders and legislators

have a lot on their plate.

Looking busy can take more time and effort than actually

trying to accomplish something.


While I, too, occasionally succumb to the temptation to wonder

which drug of choice a certain leader is inebriated by

when I see that person mumbling incoherently on the boob tube,

I have to come to a realization, upon sober reflection,

that I'm really glad that I don't have that job.

Besides, when you are the monkey on top of the pile,

it's probably not hard to wonder why the one at the bottom

scratching his arse doesn't realize that it makes the whole

shebang tremble.