Wittgenstein

The trouble with feeling good under false pretenses is that sooner or later you want to feel good all the time and before you know it you're hooked.

It's the same feeling many political and business people want you to feel, wanting you to like them and saying almost anything so that you do.

So that a man like Bill Clinton, whose deeds are pretty much in direct opposition to his words, can be liked by so many people and thought of by these people as being their champion when in reality he is their oppressor and has hopes of remaining so.

Now that America has become a big--or a little--Europe, having fulfilled the supra-capitalistic instinct of pulling itself up from its bootstraps so that now it owns its own bootstraps, it is allowed its dynasties, though not quite in the style and category of the Wittgenstein's of Austria.

The wealth of the Wittgenstein's gave Ludwig permission to think about such things, like why we love looking at illusions and need to have so many illusions in our lives.