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Is There a Difference in the Idea of the Individual?
I do think that the idea of the individual has been articulated most fully in the west. And from an evolutionary perspective, that's, it's instantaneous. It's like, while a new idea has to arise somewhere so it's going to be somewhere first. I mean, christianity, for example, spread so rapidly that it's absolutely beyond belief. Is actually spreading more rapidly in china now than it did in ancient rome. So i wouldn't say necessarily that the fact that other belief systems emerge in the aftermath of the collapse of the overarching belief system, i don't think that's necessarily a bad idea. You told us you wanted more data for your money. We listened