David A. Aldrich
I came into this world small and will likely leave large. In between I have alternately treated life as either too absurd to be true or too cruel to be ignored.
What has always disturbed me greatly is this conundrum: In a putative democracy, doing good requires a critical mass of people, which is nearly impossible to obtain given two constraints: (1) the corruption of money; and (2) the distraction of the masses. The first begets the second. As a result, we in America have neither a government of, by, and for the people nor an economic system that provides everyone with the necessities of life.
