William BenningtonThanks! I know I was kind of all over the
  place but it was something I wrote quickly during a discussion
  I'm having with a friend over on Google+. It's actually a
  discussion about the roots of modern thought as it relates to
  our connection to ancient Greece. The guy knows way more than me
  so I'm having a great time with it as he's filling in some of
  the details I didn't have or that I had forgotten.