The StrutAny guy under 45 is still growing up, and when, midst their second adolescence, such guys are confronted with the prospect for more power and wealth than their earlier years had foretold, they often succumb to an affliction: The Strut.
“I’m cool, I’m very cool, cooler than you and you and you. I’m so cool that I can complete a press release in five minutes, in which I report revenues and leave them suckers guessing about expenses.
When you’re in my league; you can look down at all the little people who’re begging for a glimpse into what I know and they don’t.
I strut; they watch, and that’s how it is. They’re lucky I don’t relieve my bladder on them.”
*Public Health researchers at Johns Hopkins are studying The Strut among a sample of hedge fund managers and investment bankers. One unexpected diagnostic sign is that when foxes are in the presence of a strutter the foxes run away; hence the name running fox. Dr. Alan Greenspan, a true visionary, is credited with preparing a cure for this affiction, even before The Strut was identified.