Where I am living, the power goes off nearly every day for anywhere from 10 minutes to nine hours. Given what they charge for electricity, my guess is that most of the money that should have gone for System Maintenance instead went for Corrupt Managers’ Lavish Lifestyle Maintenance. The formerly civilized Western World, aka, the First World, appears to be jealous and to be in a lemming-like dash for the nearest cultural cliff, at the bottom of which lies full membership in the Third World, a world growing like a gargantuan, humanity devouring tape worm.