"… with much disquiet for the cynical the increasingly manifested problem for all Western democracies is the nagging reality that affluence seems to nurture attitudes and opinions and behaviors that tend to be at odds with the very attributes that made the affluence possible in the first place… call it the none too surprising phenomenon of the spoiled child syndrome writ large on a national and even god forbid civilizational stage… rarely does the indulged creature amount to anything more than a mere and quite unremarkable afterthought to the thing that created it…"
