The problem with the academic world is that it can be a sort of refuge to avoid reality. It is difficult, for example, to pull people from their realities and then place them in a controlled environment. Even for the purposes of a simple survey it is very difficult to get the best possible answers from the cohort. However, when one simply walks into a social setting and asks a question, the answers will come out as real as anything anyone can expect. Out here, people come from all over the world to spend their money and rip it up. Vegas is a place unto itself. So, in my book, there is no better place than here to ask someone this question: If you had it to do all over again, what would you do or not do? The answers are very real...

The Monopoly of Life - It all goes back in the box

The Best Speech about Humanity - Carl Sagan

Alice In Chains - What the Hell Have I

I think maybe too many people among us think far too much of themselves. It reflects poorly upon themselves and the world around them. In order to be full of yourself, you have to forget your place as a human being on this tiny little place called earth. You have to discount the reality of everything. That... is "a" definition of what it means to be insane.

All that has taken place before us... is within us. All those involved... walk among us. Everything is connected to itself and all other things. What is true has been true longer than there has been a human capacity for thought. Mankind is best viewed as a mutation of the stars... a galactic mixed bag of inner turmoil and spiritual meanderings.

Pink Floyd -"Echoes" Pompeii