The only way to make progress off into the infinite future, is to have this vision of knowledge that popa had. The wealthiest places in the world now are the ones that have the best ideas. To have a maximumly creative society, you have to have freedom and liberty. And therefore you will have a non violent society. You will have a society which values creativity as an end in itself. All the new fortunes are being created in idea space. In fact if you're starting out with real estate today, you don't go into extraction of physical resources to create wealth. You go into idea space - programming books, movies,. blogs and building pod cars.