Comment: We've been brought up to believe our ancestors were "hunters", when i n fact, they were mostly "prey" until about 50,000 years ago, when our pre-frontal cortex "suddenly" developed (the fossil record of artistic symbolism in humans doesn't run further back than 50 kya)
Armed with the ultimate WMD (Einstein's term for the brain), we proceeded to exterminate so many animal species that, for instance, when modern humans found their way to our continent, they left a trail of broken animal-bones from modern-day Alaska to Patagonia.
All of this to say, that our bodies as those of all primates, evolved from eating plants over several million years. In fact, our "brain-less" cousins, Chimpanzees and Gorillas, who share 98% of our DNA and have a good-size brain, but no pre-frontal cortex, keep on eating vegetables over 95% of the time.
Comment: Exactly! Only, they have been calling it, Keynesianism, to make it sound historically-rooted and sophisticated. But, wealth redistribution, like all Ponzi schemes, only works in its initial stage, while new inflows exceed outflows.
In the final stage, as capital has been swindled or is inaccessible (worth below par and generating negative income), the schemers make bold assurances to kick the can forward, while desperately grooming the biggest possible fish in the tank (think of the EU persuading China and others into the EFSF!).
Regarding your last paragraph. Sadly, Utopian siren songs are impossible to detect by its own beneficiaries. How can you convince a generation bailed out by Central Banks and ultimately Debt, at every economic crisis since 1987, to believe in a different solution this time?
No wonder Prince and Dalio are managing 125 Billion. Aside from the returns, their investors must be attracted to their strategy's coherence with the real world, the one that never learns to manage debt and every 40 years or so, crushes under insurmountable loads of it, no matter it's being happening for 800 years.
Comment: Your argument doesn't answer Noonan's request for an official explanation from the president to the american public, yet you have a good point. People like Chavez, Castro and other US bashers were quickly discredited by the UN announcement.1 Recommendation