I had a weird dream Saturday night. It was about "German Calculus". Never heard of that before, so in my dream I looked it up on the 'net and went to the Wikipedia page for German Calculus. According to my dreamt Wikipedia page, German Calculus would be more accurately characterized under Economics than mathematics. The page explained (yes, I was reading a Wikipedia page in my dream, so weird) that the idea is that wars serve as a critical impetus to move economic production forward. The lack of a war and war machine slowly sees a nation slide into contraction, recession, depression. Then, a war so jolts the economy into production and expansion that it goes into a massive new economic level. I know this is controversial stuff, and I'm not picking on Germany, that's just what the Wikipedia page said. Then I woke up. I know, weird.