"The more I think about it, the more I realize that the current paradigm that so many adhere to in the world of business is utterly mundane."

Absolutely, and that sentence right there touches on a huge area of my thinking that I have simmered in for quite sometime, as my brain has built so many connections between various areas of the 'mundane' and the state's evil 'grand design' for caging the human spirit and shutting off creativity.

It's incredibly insidious--both in its inception and in its expression in society en masse--this notion that success and happiness is defined by whatever the government has funded and put boundaries/papers/borders around.