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There is Moncler rousseau Men down jackets brown orange a danger in creative thinking and creative problem solving and that danger is precisely why the "Chamber of Commerce" types have been trying, since the election of Ronald Reagan (and probably before), to stamp it out. Creative problem solving always leads to solutions which threaten the status quo and thereby, the ability of those whose wealth depends on their exploitation of the previous generation s solutions, to continue to do so. In our current society, where money equals free speech and power it is well within the ability of our banking and business classes to prevent progress in any and all areas within the US (unless they can moncler vest price control it and gather all the benefits of it). In protecting their own status quo, of course, they are ensuring that all such progress occurs in other parts of the world to the effect that the US is already becoming an economic and scientific backwater. They, themselves, are not creative, nor forward thinking enough to look beyond trying to protect themselves and their own, and have successfully promulgated that same, "I, me, mine" attitude throughout society to the extent that it s unlikely anything can prevent their own fortunes from being seriously compromised or completely lost. Of course the rest of us will go down first. When Jesus said, "Those who seek [only] to save [their own] lives will lose them." it wasn t a new, personal, moral command he was issuing. It was a simple re statement of what happens when we do what we ve been led to do since Reagan announced, "morning in America" while leading us to charge toward the darkest of nights: each seeking after only our own and, thereby, ensuring the destruction of all that we hold dear

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