What we learn at the hearth, we live. That is why I cited latency numbers for sustaining the behavior. The hardest thing for Doug and most of us to face is that we live in our Monkey Brain. Slavish imitation drives not innovation, but replication with only chance and circumstance, the laws of big numbers applied to local politics to give a semblance of creative thought. Those victories provided by a wealthy education or by dumb luck still come down to victories in a game we must choose.
Wisdom is in the choice.
Freedom is the choice. After that, the Monkey Mind reneges on the promise of a self-determined destiny. The Preta requires the predictability of the Monkey mind to feed on the monkey. Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. From the Paris of the Prairie Enjoyed browsing.