Whilst I always leave America richer for the experience I have some thought’s I like to share. (I leave sunday 17th,July carmeggedon permitting). I have had many conversations with Americans whose angst seems to be more focussed on the US faltering at home and abroad rather than China’s success for example. But it seems to me the American populace has to decide whether to side with wisdom and their own abundant creativity or focus on the many absurdities that abound in the country contributing to fulfilling the dire prediction of Socrates that is – that all democracies fail due to giving equal voice and votes to people with no integrity and are ignorant. Historians point out that the average duration of a democracy is usually only 2 to 300 years.

The common conception is that capital means wealth or money in the bank. This thinking fails to recognise that the true source of capital is the creativity of the mind from which the accumulation of money is only the consequence. America has inspired the world with it’s creative genius. It is this that is the “capital” out of which wealth has come about along with millions of jobs and the rise in prosperity. It not only lifted it’s own people but carried the rest of the world with it. Everyone is free to create the next new idea or great invention. Creative minds birthed the majority of great industries and inventions that support the economy.

An enormous side benefit that has come out of this has been the emergence of another great American institution, that of philanthropy. These amazing people have returned to the world great and immeasuarable benefits of their generosity.

My wife Vicki and I have had the great honour of been invited to America to celebrate and honour such a life and to play our music at a most inspiring event. We return to Australia with great faith in the American dream. Long live America.

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