I watched 'Civilization: the West plus the Rest with Niall Ferguson' on PBS. Niall Ferguson's idea is: Western Civilization identified Management the World from the fortune of combining six 'killer applications', i.e. (one) Competitors; (2) Science; (three) Modern Drugs; (four) Democracy; (5) Consumerism; and (6) the (Protestant) function ethic. So http://campbellu126liv4.loginblogin.com/profile