Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

refreshing thread. i remember what it was like to be young and naive about how the world works... to always think i understood... understood change and thought the future was going to be nothing but butterflies and rainbows.

of course, later i began to understand how the world actually works. how a two party political system works... how many interests there are that actually vote... how corrupt you have to be to get anything done in a corrupt system and that politicians do and say everything upfront to make you believe they are going to change the world... then in the end, they end up being a part of the same sucky system that requires compromise after compromise after compromise to get anything done at all and to do anything even remotely good.

the dream is nice though.

there is definately something to said for being naive. its pleasant.