Bentler - 1:25 am on Dec 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

One more thought on this subject, or an opinion... I think the problems we're in now are pretty serious-- wide, deep, and fundamental, from the economy to global warming and our ever-burgeoning global population that we irrationally assume will continue to grow despite the fact that it breaks new records every year. With such vast and serious problems, it seems their solutions must be proportionally big in scope. And perhaps disruptive to how things work now.

Another thought is that many of the people on this board, as I recall, fall into a Myers-Briggs INTP, INTJ, ENTP and ENTJ types that think about stuff and how to make things work better. It's in our nature, something that is valuable to others who really think short-term, or how things work now, or did in the past. Especially in times like these, vast is good.