anyone born to parents who are type-a careerists can attest to how abandoning it feels, the meagre contact, the endless tension of the high-stakes lifestyle brought into the arena of the home, with frequently disastrous results, from the childrens' psychological point of view.

the type of person attracted to, and with the singleminded ambitious drive and stamina to endure the commitments of time and energy needed to ascend the greasy pole of success, has had to renounce many things along the way there.

the ego-softening, longterm responsibilisation that occurs naturally in the heart when childrens' demands make a parent slow down and lighten up, entering into play to communicate, are often largely absent in these streamlined, lean mean success machines.

this helps explain to me why leaders are so callous towards the future, and so lacking in human compassion.

as they say, once you can fake honesty, the rest is easy...

and we keep expecting these sociopaths to make conscious decisions that are for the greatest good of all, while the results speak for themselves!

duh

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty