And isn’t waving a rebel flag a de facto call for righting a perceived wrong? Otherwise, it sounded like he was describing Yankee ingenuity. One might even say a Connecticut Yankee is one of the ur-templates.
Say whatever you want, an evening of assembling a rocket array on your head or welding together a beowulf cluster out of junk computers beats an evening with losers whining about injustices and wrongs and calling for (or, worse, celebrating) various marriage bans, or, even worse, racial policing.
