To: Giordano Bruno who wrote (228657 ) 11/13/2009 12:11:16 PM From: LTK007 Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 306849 Perfect, drawback is they are the mouthpiece of our WS ruled country/government-the leaders of this "Empire" i have read Chris Hedges "The Empire of Illusion", it brings forth that our "brightest and best" are cement minded mental inferiors that don't have the needed intelligence to perceive they are marching the U.S. into major DISASTER. i have next to no doubt he is correct(Why?Because he thinks like me---VBG:) Hedges background? A child of a Maine working class family, that manifested brilliance as a youth and got a scholarship to one of the most elite private schools,a school that teaches their students they are The Elite--he was their for 8 years, then 4 years Colgate, then 4 years Harvard, then 20 years a War Correspondent of the New York Times(and a Pulitzer winner). He is at Princeton at present. He states the best people he knows are the working class people of his family and of Maine, that they are far far more real and also are brighter than the "brightest and best". He goes into discussion as to why these "brightest and best" are really dangerously stupid, and some of a psychopathic nature. He depicts Obama as just one more member of this group, that Barack's friends and loyalties are of this ELITE, he is just another achievetron PRODUCT of our now Corporate Controlled/WS/Defense Industry controlled Elite Universities. It is quite a book that because it is written by one that went through the elitist system, gives this a bit more teeth. By elitist system, he means the system indoctrinates them with , "you are the elite,the entitled, the brightest and best" i myself was a working class scholarship child sent to an elite prep school that went through this system,and know what it is to see and hear and be a participant in the programming of elitism and entitlement. (i originate from "Philly") i thus connect intensely with Chris Hedges, and that yes the Hyenas RULE---and those that think all will get right i feel greatly underestimate what they are up against. . Max