Or is the word *malarkey*?

This is about getting up-off of your butt-and your worn-out knees.

-Secrecy was-essential from the start for absolving subsequent generations of the obloquy heaped upon their ancestors, as well as of responsibility or knowledge of what their capital was doing on the ground. Increasingly sophisticated instruments distanced the possessors of Old Money, as aqueducts did their cities, from the consequences of its getting and perpetuation.-

-You must imagine for yourself what the condition of society is under these circumstances. It is nowhere; there is no society. Any appearance of social convenience that may be found is a mere temporary and temporizing expedient by which men cheat themselves to believe they are not savages.- — Frederick Law Olmsted on San Francisco