The entire point of this thread was about the dynamics of large systems, a topic I have great interest in and love to speculate about. It has implications on everything from thermodynamics to science fiction to ecology. This is the sort of conversation I can't get anywhere else but here.

You somehow seem to have found my purely academic remarks about these abstract issues a threat to your political religion and felt compelled to divert the whole conversation into yet another anti-liberal witch hunt. And it's not the first time. It's hard to talk about anything here without you using it as an excuse to commandeer the dialog into what you want to talk about.

Take Ms Rand's advice yourself, and stop taking charge of all activity on this board and bending it into a referendum on your obsessions. I have no idea what inner demons have taken over your life, Tom, but I am tired of having to come here every day for recreation and fellowship and being forced to face your shrill jihadism instead. Providing you with emotional therapy and political reassurance is not my reason for existence.

I don't give an Albanian pussy fart what Ayn Rand says or thinks. She was just another neurotic emotional basket case who took out her personal shortcomings and aberrations on everyone around her by substituting her anomalistic political fundamentalism for whatever was really poisoning her life. I refuse to be lured into a detailed dissection of her hormonal imbalances.