Absolutely. No doubt. I completely agree on how widespread and acceptable HYPOCRISY is in western society.Originally Posted by Mario F.
Altho -- and I am not much of a U2 fan -- I think Bono (like Bill Gates) is very very exceptional, as far as multi-millionaires go, with his efforts to actually do something significant. Way more so than any of the Beatles or Rolling Stones, or 99.4% of the "Fortune 500", AFAICT.
They are light years ahead of the "Rockefeller" types, who play the public for fools by donating land (here, there, and everywhere) to become high profile but trivial parks with their name on it, as if they were actually philanthropists. It would take both hands for me to count the number of parks I have seen in my life named "Rockerfeller", which clearly this practice went on for generations, at the same time as they threw money into draconian lobbies which keep "the masses" impovrished, or imprisoned. I guess the idea was to seem nice enough because after a lifetime of behaving properly and making money for them, you could hang out on a bench and feed pidgeons.
Unfortunately, the majority of the public will always have an absurd respect for the very wealthy -- otherwise they would not exist
