A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a person and lay them open.  ~Francis Bacon

The passage of time doesn't necessarily equate with actual change in society.

The issues that loomed over the financial markets in 2011 still persist at the start of 2012 and still weigh us down like a virus ignoring its antibiotic.

I don’t have to persuade you that our world is changing.  Globalization of commerce has changed forever how we do business.  The media continues to have a huge impact on our sensory perceptions of the world around.  In my opinion, this media impact is mostly negative.  It seems to me that the media has never met a negative story that it didn’t like....