I always thought we were built on ingenuity, well at least until I was 20 something. American ingenuity is a phrase I believed in. But then it became only ingenuity for making money. While the space program billions could have gone into other things, at least it was mostly ingenuity and not all about making a dollar. Even though many made big bucks off of it.

Now I know our ingenuity is based on the stupidest most racist wars we will get into. We have had some kind of "war" on average every 10 years of our existence. Of course, we do get "better" weapons each time to fight our even stupider wars. That is the extent of our genius. Not because we do not have other kinds, but the wars ruin us more the other way than they help us get better at being better people.

We can escape the ruin, but we must crank up the common good ingenuity velocity as well as release the gravity of external wars, and fighting ourselves, from our negative ingenuity ballast.