I love listening to a large portion of the techno-elite speak. It’s so depressing, and speaks well for their impending doom. I hear more and more darwinistic talk all the time. I keep hearing people say that it’s perfectly acceptable for people at the top of the heap to behave badly. Because, well, they’re there. Its ok for Microsoft to set the government’s policy on software design, because they’re the most successful computer software company going. Its ok for Haliburton to get the contracts to rebuild Iraq, because they were a succesful company that made some fantastic strategic contacts. The moral decay is astounding. I feel like I’m watching the edge of a precipice. I see the capitalists at the top shouting “Let them eat cake!” I make no predictions of how it will end, but I’m pretty sure if Sophocles and Shakespeare have endured for hundreds of years on the universality of their stories, then corporate America is nearing its end. Its how the story goes. It is inevitable. I posit that ultimately the saying should not be “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.”, but rather “Those who try to outsmart the past…”