On Oct 21, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Piya Tan wrote: > Joy, > > The European Enlightenment was evidently a great age, but I think > most of us > in > urban Asia missed that. We started only with the Industrial > Revolution and > have > become cog and wheels of a massive global system whose main nut is > in the > USA. > You care to name him? Jim Oh, and "Yikes"