For tens of thousands of years, humankind has inhabited the earth. 

Humans have lived under every form of authoritarian government imaginable – from god-kings to emperors, dictators, presidents, and czars – yet for all of that time, very few peoples could ever consistently get enough food to feed themselves.

Famines, disease and pestilence have always killed multitudes, and still do in most places on the globe.

Yet suddenly in the space of a few generations, a relatively few people have used their energies so effectively that they have created a completely new world, where floors, toilets, electricity, telephones, computers and a thousand other things unimagined just a generation ago, are commonplace.

Why?

The physical earth has not changed significantly in remembered history. The raw materials were always there, as were the people.

The plain fact is that human energy and creativity has operated more effectively in these United States than it has operated ever before, and still more effectively than it continues to operate anywhere else on the planet.

Again, why?