Interesting posts Dopeboy. Some things I disagree with, other things I think irrelevant or tangential to the big picture, but mostly I like the fact you're actually thinking.I won't do battle with you now on those elements I disagree with, but keep up the good work :)In many ways it's the effort that counts. I mean, if you have just 1 or 2 original ideas, conceptions of the world, then you are at a distinct advantage. Thinking is like a magic trick, it's the small amount of information the audience doesn't know that gives the magician this enormous advantage in seeing the bigger picture. We don't have to be right about everything, in fact we're usually wrong about something (compare and contrast how people think in the 18th century with the 19th century, or the 20th century with the 21st), but what's important is that we keep coming up with new ideas, collecting the best and discarding the rest. That's how we get places, whether we're about empires, societies, corporations or individuals.