You can't go wrong quoting Sapolsky, heathcliffe. Like many things in life, I think there's a balance to be found between the individualist and collectivist poles. We live in a ultra-competitive world that often rewards individual achievement, but more often than not, you have to be able to cooperate with others to achieve larger goals. And I keep reading that one's selection for a job is often predicated upon how the hiring group perceive your ability to easily mesh with the established work culture.

Watching Trump and Xi go at it is like that rare occasion in professional wrestling when the two heels (bad guys) go at it, and the audience isn't sure whom to root for. It's akin to watching Moe (of the Three Stooges) going toe-to-toe with the episode's "heavy". As much as I utterly loathe our unhinged evil hate clown of a president, he doesn't have a million Uighurs incarcerated in re-education camps. Nor does he have the People's Liberation Army poised to bust heads in Hong Kong. Though if Trump had those options, he might do the same.

The Chinese obviously want Trump out, and they have to be calculating how to harm our economy and stock market, while minimizing the damage to their own. They must be working overtime in the psychometric department gaming a multitude of button-pushing scenarios, all with the goal of greasing the skids to ensure only one term of erratic behavior from the alleged leader of the free world. I'd like to be a fly on that Great Wall of China to know what they're thinking.

Peter T.