Good story, thanks for posting.

I’d never heard of that term, “Passionarian ethnogenesis theory”, maybe because the title sounds so exotic and academic.

I agree it is true, but would go a step further and say it applies to all people, it is not limited only to the more creative.

Things have moved on since the right thing to do with new developments was to patent and build an empire on the intellectual property arising, as was done most effectively by the example of the most successful patentee of all time, James Watt, a proud product of my own home town.

We should now recognise that our planet and all of us on it are sustained by a single inexhaustible energy source, the sun. We should recognise also the parts of our collective endeavours which have added net value to our planet, rather than detracting from it, and all of our creations should now belong to the commons, where we are all now similarly equipped by modern technology to add value to them.

We are capable, by collaborating and putting aside our destructive tendency to compete with one another, of adding infinitely more. All have value, much more than is needed to sustain each of us as individuals.

I just wish this could be stated in a way that makes sense to all people!