Pussy Riot is at it again.  Its latest song, another clever and biting attack on the ruling powers of the world, particularly those in Russia, demonstrates, once more, the vast gap between those who rule and those who do not.  Although democracy seems ascendant around the planet, in many ways it is not.  Pussy Riot captures this reality acutely.
     Even if rulers in a democracy serve by virtue of election, too often they serve only a few people, usually their closest supporters and friends.  Moreover, from the day they take office, they are looking at being re-elected (except perhaps in Mexico, where the president serves only one six year term).  Consequently, they frequently sacrifice a nation's long term health for their own reward.
     
     Regardless of where Pussy Riot stands on the question of God, its newest song makes an important point:  no ruler is an island, accountable only to him or herself.  Ultimately, a ruler is beholden not just to the people who elected him or her, but the greater meaning that pervades the cosmos, a meaning that, try as they--and all of us--endeavor desperately to grasp, they and we will never fully comprehend.
     We are beachholds in a vastly random and divinely measured sea.