ZombieChicken

Two issues:

1. Most of history isn't written, and when it has been, it was the ruling class that wrote it.
2. Most of, if not all, the world has been under a ruler of some form for the vast majority of it's history

Don't start thinking that Capitalism started with The Wealth of Nations. Greed has always been there, and it has always been rewarded.

You need to put that knob and note into a shadow box and hang it up.

Are you talking about the neural networks that underly so-called "AI"?

Antichrist have been with us since Christ was here. 1st John 2:18, not that your average megachurch "preacher" would teach that.

Personally, I think the GOP is run entirely by a small cabal that dictates everything. If you go far enough in that org, someone has something on you to make you dance.

Nothing new. The US has been losing scientist for decades. There is a reason so little innovation comes out of the States these days.

I disapprove of you posting a photo of me on my day off. How dare you!

That looks like self-propeled bacon.