keelie @ 98: “Is there any possibility that any one of these outstanding ideas will be acknowledged by anyone with real influence (and know-how)?”

That question implies a world where there is a Political Class living on a different plane from mere taxpayers. But what about a world in which that Political Class has demonstrably failed, has lost the Mandate of Heaven, has no legitimacy in the eyes of the overwhelming majority?

The latter is the world we are rapidly approaching, the world after Peak Government; the world when no-one will lend money to the Political Class, or take the Political Class’s rapidly-inflating currencies; the world in which the Political Class will be unable to fulfill the many promises they have made to their hangers-on, be they wealthy windfarm Subsidy Sluts or indigent single mothers on never-ending welfare.

In that new world which is even now abirthing, “real influence” will lie with a completely different group of people. Our challenge is to make sure those new people have the opportunity to learn from history and make sure that no Political Class emerges ever again. Those people with future “real influence” are the ones we want to reach — and maybe even now are reaching.