Maybe. But You could have said that 10 years ago, too. It could be that a society that doesn't even try to reward its most ambitious and brightest people, and i

Maybe. But You could have said that 10 years ago, too. It could be that a society that doesn't even try to reward its most ambitious and brightest people, and instead focuses all of its government's efforts in protection of second/third generation deep power structures, that they will never cultivate a innovation oriented of intellectual culture. Who knows, though.