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Greatness

What makes any thing or any one great? A society, a country, a civilization. Since man began counting time and recording history it is evident that there have been many a tale of rise and fall of entire civilizations over short and long periods. As I recently watched a film about what the Ancient Indians knew, hosted by an Australian and produced by the help of English and Americans and broadcast on a US cable channel I was struck by the disconnects at many levels. It is plentifully clear that the ancients (in the Indus valley) and what is now called India were a learned bunch to the point that the nucleation of complex mathematical and scientific thought occurred here. That subsequently translated into a plentiful state of being and a truly/holistically wealthy society. Take that visionary thinking then and fast forward to 2012 and you see large scale variance in almost any metric you could care to measure in 'modern India' (another oxymoron for the books). Greed and ab...