From each...to each ...

Stance:

Last month, there was a 9/11 style attack on an Austin IRS center by an American itself. The alleged attacker left an elaborate suicide note on why he was disgruntled with the IRS. A person going to the level of attacking something as uninteresting like an IRS center ready to risk his own life, kind of kindled my curiosity to such an extent that I had to browse through his suicide note. Other than usual disgruntlement with the politicians, political system and how its not standing for common people but biased towards vested interests, the whole note seemed nothing more than a vexed soul pouring out. The final punch or rather only punch, in my view in the whole note was its concluding sentence which succintly and clearly summarized where capitalism is headed. Since I have had my own issues with the capitalistic world, I found the following sentence very interesting and ironically enough, it rhymes with the statement which is considered cornerstone of communism.

"Communism - from each according to his capacity, to each according to his need.

Capitalism - From each according to his guillibility, to each according to his greed."

These words were very well put and really caught my attention in light of how the recent credit crisis put lot of innocent folks life and job in jeopardy while the greedy who should be held responsible (read "execs of failed financial majors") escaped unscathed with a golden severance package parachute.

Again, the bottom line is - no matter which side you are in, unless you respect what you believe in, its going fail.

Now the lighter side of the above story - the family of one of the IRS worker who died in the above said attack is suing the wife of the attacker saying she should have acted responsibly as if she was aware of whats going on in her husband's mind. Loosing a family member in the attack, I can fully empathize. But "suing the wife of the attacker", I dont know how it makes sense.

Still:

Taken at San Diego Zoo obviously, the golden sun making the predator merge with the background and the blurred cage wires adding more meaning.