Jim, I grok your concept, but it's a bit limiting to think that every Raja is processing it. Sure seems they would all be doing so, but I've met soooo many second generation rich kids, now grown up, who just seem to believe they're minor gods at least.
They were raised in milieus we know not of. There's many such types running their businesses in FF -- running through daddy's accounts fast or using their family's coat-tails to grab OPM. I've seen $40,000,000 slide through the fingers of one company in FF before it went bust -- run by a rich kid who used his father's moola and business connections to grab OPM. Several are operating constantly in the red, hoping to still some day stop the hemorrhaging of hard won family funds. They're usually very hoity toity, and it may only be hard for them to put on the robes cuz the material "is so scratchy," but otherwise, hey, they're THERE for the deal. And tomorrow, after all, millions of kids will dress up in costumes that look about as cheap as raja clothes, so, wow, just think, there's our whole culture training future rajas. I've never met someone high-up in the TMO and rich to boot who was a chummy person -- they're hit up for money constantly and are just forced into these strange, furtive, role-playing, hardened personalities. Costumes might give them that psychological distance from the masses that they long for. Okay, they're doing something we just can't know the costs of, but I don't think I could keep a straight face meeting one of them. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > gotta say that you both sound like a couple of pussies-- I > honestly > > > would not be able to do what those guys do-- not that I want to, > but > > > I really don't have the balls to dress up like that and buy into > > > that reality so deeply and with such commitment and dedication. > I > > > guess that makes me a pussy too...and while your at it, pass me > a > > > shot of tequila, the good stuff, please. > > > > > > > Both Peter and I did buy into that reality so deeply and with such > > commitment and dedication at one time Jim. Then we caught a clue. > > > > Looking like a douchebag is your idea of manliness? It doesn't take > > balls it takes self-delusion to be a Raja. If they are your heroes > > then I think you will be drinking alone. > > > These guys aren't anywhere near my heroes- I don't know where you > got that idea. I'm just asking the question if you could do what > they do, whatever the motive, and you are saying no way, and I > couldn't either. I am not asking like I buy into it, I'm asking you > if you have guts enough to do it, the cajones dude-- not what comes > naturally to you or me, playing music, or working at a company, but > dressing up and preaching stuff that not even one percent of the > people on the globe buy into. Maybe they all wake up one day and > think, god I made such an ass out of myself. I don't know that, and > neither do you. I'm just saying that whatever the motive, it takes > more balls than either you or I have. >
