This kind of post is why I like the members of this site. We have a good protocol for keeping things real and the issues are discussed from lot's of different angles. We are starting to learn. What is really interesting about your post is that you also see the strategic complexity of the moves available to us and our side. It also starts to suggest that if we could put together a set of training materials that could be taken, graded and self examined for an individuals in a particular area we could start building up our people giving us the distributed skills that we need to survive in the chaos that is coming our way. Just like you can become a great plumber or a great electrician, we can train our people to become great tacticians, great analysts, great at history, great at mythology, great at media, great at persuasion, and so forth. I have been thinking about one area that we really need to start training our people in: species level warfare. It's not a great name, but, when you start to think in terms of human speciation you get an interesting way to start categorizing humans and start quantifying each of the human species behavioural assets. Once you understand each member of each species is simultaneously and individual enabled by the species level collective, you can start to reason about how and why every member of a species acts the way they do. Once you can start to reason about how individuals of a species behaves you can also start to reason about how a species behaves. Once you get all of that, all of a sudden everything starts to make sense and you can start to see what game we all are playing, what the rules are, how many moves each piece on the table can move and so forth. Once you can reason about how each peace in this game we are playing can move, you can start to see strategy. Once you can see strategy you can start to see and quantify the work that needs to be done to turn the tide. I can now see the giant machines that our enemies have built in our own lands to turn our children against us, and I can now see that our ancestors were perfectly happy to allow our enemies to build these giant monstrous machines in our lands to turn our children against us. Note: I wrote the last part down for my self. As we all chat and learn along here, each new lesson lets us see further ahead with more clarity. Thanks for the comment.