"We live in an ever smaller global community and we probably are at a point wherewe believe having some language skills is a useful thing - it's what I would call a vocational skill really, " he says.
And in a world whereweare being told what we might like based on what we liked before, it becomes ever more difficult to recognize the true archetypes who walk among us.
"There is less money - and because there is less money it's more important than ever that the resources we have are targeted where they're needed most, " he said.
If there ever was enough blame to go around for whereweare in that regard, that's the area of what's happened to our intelligence over the last many years.
It marks another step into a future where corporations are able to peer inside our lives to a far greater extent than we would ever allow a government to do.
We glorify people standing in line to shop, but how often have you ever seen a story where there are depositors lined up outside of their community bank trying to deposit their paychecks so that they can make sure that their kids have money for college.