there's something called the law of doubles, it's mathematics, and has it's fundamentals in the laws of nature, as per the fibonacci ratio.

I was listening to a presentation on line by a US Uni professor some while ago. He indicated that if you had few fruit flies in a jar, and the population kept on multiplying by the same rate (which doubles every 10 years - ie the double), they would'nt realise that they didnt have enough room left in the jar, until it was something like 80% full.

There wasn't any detail on the experiment of course, it was just part of a much larger presentation which covered the supply of oil, rise of inflation etc, etc, just seems to be about what people get used to believing, becomes 'it'.

We create our own reality. Most people with the ability to do better, would. The issue is with those that can't, or those who just prefer an existence which although might be lower in quality is also generally lower in risk. You don't have much, but you don't have so much to worry about hanging on to. I'm talking about the UK system at the moment by the way, which is altering, we have more people sucking the system in the UK than anywhere in Europe, but a lot of it is about the way the system has been constructed, and since there are only now going to be major alterations to it, one must assume it suited the political classes in the past for it to be that way.

After all, if the majority was happy, and in work, how would fresh blood get into government?