The Really Really Big Picture of What Is Happening On Wall Street Today!
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How has it happened that a monopolistic "top down" hierarchy is being circumvented by "bottom up" awareness. The way you are accessing this information right now is proof of my point. In the era of dead tree publishing controlled by big business interests, the statements and conclusions that follow—right or wrong—would have been relegated to crank-a-dank "2 cents worth" letters to the editors column, if at all. The bottom up access of information from the consumer seeking answers at his own expense, instead of "paying" for free entertainment by accepting that their role in society was to do exactly what big business wanted, besides turing advertising on it's head, has fueled a revolution of how things (goods, services, companies, wages) are valued.

In fact, writing about the abuses of Wall Street a few years ago might have led to a dismissing of any publication pointing to flaws in how stocks were marketed, as a "socialist rag," totally ignoring the fact that such words may have been written in support of the truest form of capitalism—free enterprise.

It also should be noted that the cold war against the "evil empire" of communism, was won by freedom of information. It never really was a battle between the have, or have not, ownership of industry. It was totally about a few having the power to suppress the majority. Those at the top (Wall Street, or the Kremlin) both ran their business interests with the attitude that they were benevolent protectors of the ordinary man on the street. The "top down" control of the masses for both the "free world," and the USSR was effected by what was doled out to them in the newspapers, where an article in Pravda (Russian for "The Truth") about a new five-year plan was matched by the in-depth interview of Enron's forecast of the future.

The top down/bottom up struggle is really based on a "scarcity" attitude—"I have to fight for what I get; there isn't enough to go around"—clashing with an "abundance" awareness that civilization has developed through the sharing of ideas, opportunity to develop, and free enterprise, that strangely enough follows these principals—"to give life, and that more abundantly." Who said that? A Middle-Eastern activist named Jesus Christ. Maybe in this age of examination without top-down leaders interpreting ideas—"for our own good"—those words might be re-read for the true meaning.