Ok, I think I'm going to lose some of my timidity here, and begin to lay out my heart and the details of lots of models which I have put together over the years about things. I realize that most USAer folks who read my words will misconstrue them. Because the premises behind many of my models is so far outside the box, they won't know how to make heads or tails of what I'm saying. However, this blog is not really written for a general audience anyway, and the real people I'm trying to reach here with my words are the folks who have put some time previously into looking at the world around them and pondering it - dispensing with preconceptions, and looking at things with a fresh perspective.