I didn't mean the post to be directed at you AM---sorry i gave that impression.
It is just a general view that dates all the way back to when i was posting on SI on foreign affairs thread and the like.
I have over the same time been working on my theory of anonymity lowers one position on the "who do we listen to?" foodchain.
That all humans are innately snobs and confirming for myself this is great line from The Boss
<<I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me
I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these
Badlands>
It also has the reverse rule, which is if a dangerously wrong-headed fool becomes the POTUS he will have power and respect---- the world is an absurd, pointless sick joke.
If Greenspan announced tomorrow that shit is more valuable than gold their would be a run to buy shit.