Our associated future remains unwritten. We can still master our own fate. I wish I could make you believe that. " . . . there is a grave danger that the subject will develop along the line of least resistance, that the stream, so far from its source, will separate into a multitude of insignificant branches, and that the discipline will become a disorganized mass of details and complexities. which describes all too well what has happened to communism, sorry, string theory. . . " ( WOIT ) https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/ Reposts not a rehash