When I was at Yale for a year with Wally back in 1984-85, we saw first hand the "secret societies" building on the campus. No windows, tall concrete buildings taking up entire blocks with wrought iron fences in the appropriate shapes (serpents and swords, etc...) Only one way in and out and we never saw anyone entering or leaving these buildings. One of the fellow devinity school students, who was also attending law school at the same time, said that he had seen people entering and leaving these buildings of national secrets in the wee hours of the morning. One time, the door was left ajar and he went in to see what the big "secret" was - what he found was a large rotunda entranceway with grand staircases ascending into an upper level. He could hear voices coming from some of the side parlor rooms. As he quickly glanced around, he saw portraits of obviously moneyed prior members, some of whom he recognized from the areas of politics and finance. He heard the voices getting louder, so, he quickly exited via the sole door he entered through. He tended to go joggin at 2 or 3 am, as that was the only time he had to give to that pursuit. He said that one evening he saw more limos tan he had ever seen in his life circled around such a "Secret society" building. So, if this is the environment that breeds the heads of Fortune 500 companies as well as the political leadership of the US, is it any wonder that their arrogance exceeds to levels of hubris? If the very principles that the founders of this country are violated on a very basic level so that the collective "people" are no longer allowed to participate in the exercise of power and their own pursuit of a livelihood to reach that promised "happiness," how can expect that the result would be anything less than completely devasting?