And when you do go over the edge, your head explodes and will never, ever fit back into "The Box" again.
That's why Fascists and authoritarians of all stripes despise out-of-the-box thinkers - and can't do it, themselves, worth a damn. Hitler was a great example; one of his classic, "out-of-the-box" ideas having been to allocate the revolutionary Me-262 jet fighter to bombing ops - evidently for their retaliatory/terror potential - at a time when Allied carpet-bombing was turning Germany's cities into charnel houses! (Terror begetting Terror, begetting Terror...as opposed to defense.) A Wrong Move, to say the least.
Meantime, he was blocking fast-track production of the Type XXI blue-water sub - a truly quantum leap forward in submarine engineering, whose design would still instruct the Allies, 15 years after capturing some - the early deployment of which could seriously have influenced the war. A yet more stupendously Wrong Move, if ever there was one!
And of course, the list goes on: "Hey Guys - let's simultaneously attack Russia and declare war on the USA - even while our plan to subdue England is going off the rails..." A Bad Idea - and more than a little akin to the present-day example of: "Hey Guys - let's give ethically degenerate investment banks 10 times the money they just lost making bad loans, so we can prop up an 'economy' based on unpayable loans!" (Anyone who actually believes this kleptocrat/corporate lie, after taking a good look at it, is just a moron. Buy gold bullion - now, while the price is down.)
Oh my (the downside of the mind out-of-the-box is that it is completely free to wander )! To return to the subject: Thank You for the compliments, Phil - this could be the build that winds up in a JaxCon competition - I'm glad you're enjoying it, and hope to impress you further, buddy!
Cheers,
-Matty
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