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Many different possible cartoons spring to mind reading this article.

Seth 'Pre Batch' presents an ideal steed for the Maverick Executive to ride jauntily into the sunset of Western Civilization upon.

Think Frederick Remington, Bronco Buster, something like that, for a start.

'Maverick Entrepreneurs': Really erratic: they change overnight, black, then, mauve. Thurston Robert Macaire Howell, will turn on you, overnight, one slip up.

Marx had pointed out, 'mode of production determines form of life'.

Wittgenstein had elaborated, looking at different aspects of similar phenomena, in a very different, very loose, but loosely related set of contexts, 'A language game determines, so one could say, a form of life.'

Oligopolistic Market Capitalism has combined these and other 'insights', with still others, technical and otherwise, to generate such nonsensical human 'mercantile' forms of behavior, unmoored from all that had gone before, really.

Market states create, among many other innovations, so called 'market language games persons' (there is not one kind of game, but a whelter of them, just as there is not one kind of 'market game person', but many kinds).

A helpful fool to the truly Hitlerian entrepreneur, say Gilligan, 'one mistake, little buddy, out of the 'life boat', stultifera navis!'

That's the model for global start up success here in America.

Hypomania is also, oddly enough, arguably, a description of a really good hunting dog; some might equivocate on this.

You don't stay with these good quick ventures. Venture capitalists are short term pimps of the Casanova hand.

Hit and run investing, make it big, sell before the idea is stolen in the global underworld, converted suddenly to an offshore mega industry.

We once, long ago, had one, a bird dog puppy, a Scvngr-like animal, named 'Flirt', really super erratic, totally;

sadly, she was actually run over by a train, broad daylight, 'rail to rail' as the venture capitalists also so picturesquely point out, while we were hunting with her.