The Mystiqie of Robin Hood

Emotions are central to who and what we are. Marketers ply there trade in playing on humanities emotions. Toy makers advertise in such a manner that children have to have the latest toy...or they'll "just die!!!" Phone makers are packaging their new phones as MP3 players, as digital cameras, as small computers, and even as phones. Charities are displaying disadvantage children to troll for more money for their organizations. Emotional manipulation is a full time business.

Robin Hood is the classical heart string player. The "rob from the rich and give to the poor" motto is what this thief used as his bow in playing his emotional violin. Please take the time to answer the short poll. I am interested in what people think.

The "Robin Hood" theme was played out in the 80s with a show called the "The A Team." It was a show of renegade military people rescuing the down and trodden from people who weren't quite legitimate. It played on the emotions of the underdog striking at organizations or people who were taking advantage of the down and out.

Fast Forward to 2008. TNT has a new show called "Leverage." With the exception of Timothy Hutton the cast is young. The concept is an "A Team" retread. The cast of characters in both show share some similarities. Each team has a "crazy" person. Each has an African-American. Each has male "eye-candy" and each has an older, wiser leader who runs the operations. It is Robin Hood modernized, again.

I always worry about those who start vocalizing their positions against big companies. I worry about those who say some people earn "too much" money. I worry about an organization that thinks that they should take money from those who have and redistribute to those who have not. I worry about a country where the Tree of Liberty is dying at it's roots. I worry...jsf