^ not going to listen to intparent, although that is a great guinea pig picture.
As for comfortablycurt, thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. You say that the people that you see had revolutionary ideas, that is most true, but I want to argue that point. The top 3 tycoons that I admire, the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan, both made their mark in industries that already existed, or at least were already known. Morgan was a banker, and bankers were already quite common at the time. Even Rockefeller had a oil business that did not really go places until some funding by Vanderbilt.
The most revolutionary of the bunch, Carnegie who took steel and made it cheap enough to use for construction, already had a rough understanding, and was not really that revolutionary.
You bring the point of my extreme dislike for upper authority, that is from my realization that I will never be great if I’m not at the summit at the mountain. Honestly when I was young I was a great student, aced with 98-99’s in all my classes and got hundreds of stickers and praise from my teachers. Heck if I stayed on that path, I would easily be a 4.0+ GPA student, likely valedictorian, and having everyone help me pick an ivy :). A lot has changed since then, and I realized that I am going to be a normal person no matter how high the grades got, for I was surrounded by well teachers. I know that to be great, I must be the absolute highest, with no ‘boss’ or manager above me.
I want to be clear that I am not hating on teachers, in-fact I believe that they have one of the most noble responsibilities of this nation. It is the system, and the disgrace of a ‘education’ that children receive that is really my problem. My ideas are well planned, have multiple fronts that I am going to smack into, and have spent years upon years doing meticulous research and planning. I can assure you my ideas are sound.
I will finish with a question regarding your final point about the upper elite class.
With the exception of Morgan (father was already a powerful banker), and a few others. Every family, including the Rockefellers and the Carnegies, started from humble beginnings (immigrant etc), and then rose. So if the entire prestigious family group really had a founder who came from the bottom, why does everyone say that only those born into the class can get in?