After all, when your Congress would rather focus on scandals than its lack of an agenda and your president is worried more about how history will remember him than all the issues he cared about when he took office, there's nothing much to cover besides sex. And it doesn't seem to be hurting mutual funds just yet. Many folks like to tell me idealism is dead - that you have to be realistic. But if you haven't noticed, the world is a rather surreal place, especially in 1998. We're far more worried about whether a man named Michael will bounce a ball next year than wh ether India and Pakistan will incinerate a billion people in a matter of minutes next year.
Idealism is a concept, a word.
It lives if you believe it. So in the remaining 17 months before the ball drops and the Russian farmers cower again, I want you to think about what we've accomplished in a thousand years. No other species on Earth ended slavery, wrote the works of Shakespeare, and sent a remote control go-cart to Mars. Then think about what we haven't accomplished. At least, not yet.