Brown Motion

Watched an interesting PBS documentary titled the 'Faces of America', which chronicles the genealogy of a dozen prominent Americans from present day to three centuries back in time. It tried to underscore the idea that through the centuries America has gone from strength to strength with the best that it's immigrants had to offer, sometimes in spite of facing severe hardship and bigotry themselves. The courage the first migrating generation showed was to uproot their self from what was familiar to them growing up and replant themselves in a foreign setup and then begin to establish a new identity. The present generation has the advantage of all the foundational groundwork these pioneers put in and have indeed in the examples highlighted shown how they have scaled to their respective pinnacles. From a purely genetic standpoint there is something to be said about these individual scenarios having the benefit of organic code making them successful at risk taking. How...