i stopped reading after "my heroes, wylie and grant"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/magazine/30food-t.html?ref=magazine

it just go to show how big the US is in terms of niche genre markets.  how each interest can be so fully developed and marketed to the point where modern day heroes no longer fall into the realm of ur classic revolutionary, ur classic philospher, ur classic breadwinner.  these days, in times where leisure is the focus and bottom line for the avg citizen, personal hobbies and interest have the complete opportunity to be honed and nurtured into a full fledged respectable career.  this free spirited risk taking mentality is the only thing the US at this point can hold onto as the forefront of superpower domination.  progressive risk taking purely for the passion of finding greatness in free will (ie pixar/dreamworks).  however, it's this same know-it-all-notion that fuels the lazy, fuels the empty dreamer, fuels the ignorant american arrogance.  and with a country led by an elected C - student, hedging the future on this top half of the top percent is cause for "distress"  viva la RMB!