When you hear the idea of "The New Renaissance", what do you think of? What are you imagining? When I think about what Daniel Quinn's vision of humanity is, I am often stuck with the concept of what I don't want to be. I think of a tribe of capitalists holding together their capitalist ways on that sliver of land known as Manhattan. I spend time imagining space for other ways of life, but I am somewhat stumped to think of what it might be other than what I've already got to work with.

There is a concept in game theory that, simplistically put, states that if two people are playing the best strategy they can, with no rational way to change, they will stay in equilibrium even if an overall change could be beneficial to both players.