“Light travels faster than sound.  That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”

Do you remember the movie  several years back, “The King of Hearts”,  where the inmates escape from their cells and take over the mental hospital?  It was a premise with a psychological twist.  They actually could run it better than the guards.  Do we need to take over?  Are we the inmates?  Or as Lady Astor supposedly said at her death bed with all the people standing around–“Am I dying or is this my birthday?”

Is the world system dying or are we about to celebrate a birthday?  From the looks of the headlines, facts and figures, it doesn’t look like a birthday party.  Death of an old way of doing things is more like it.  We seem to forget that a financial system put in place as early as 1913 with …