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Strategies & Market Trends : Roger's 1998 Short Picks -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: vegetarian who wrote (12908)	8/18/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18691

More to the point: The message which people are clearly giving off is: In the post-cold war world, much of the importance with which we accorded our "leaders" just isn't there anymore. With rare exceptions, they are mostly a source of self-important entertainers. Politicans are removed from reality. People realize they are removed from reality. People don't care because nobody is looking to them for leadership anyway. Ultimately, our entire set of beliefs about what government is and how it needs to work may need to be questioned in the post-superpower, post-industrial age. The "leaders" themselves may be the last to realize that they are obsolete. Of course, a government-addressable crisis like a war (as opposed to a crisis like Y2K, which is too fragmented for a government solution) could change this -- at least for the time being. But so long as we don't need strong leadership, we won't get it. mg