@tedd, about the tin hat: “One may wear the hat in the belief that it acts to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading; or attempt to limit the transmission of voices directly into the brain.” (Wikipedia).
If that is your meaning about tin hat which honestly had not heard the term before, then the retort was to indicate that our world as we know it IS changing and we may have to redefine some standards…. and the light bulb is both literal and figurative of where we are if we don’t see things shifting quite rapidly. Even Wolf Blitzer is looking around as of yesterday, wondering whether US is losing its super power status. There seems to be a refusal to consider that U.S could lose its dominancy in the global shift.
Many nations on earth are not solvent and for a whole variety of reasons running from greed to natural catastrophe to wild weather aftermaths and industry moving from North America to Asia, India, Brazil. Given everything we see in the news today why is it so hard to recognize that change IS? In the event things cannot perpetuate to keep solvency in most nations, including USA, what are the alternatives to prevent anarchy from taking complete root? Would not some kind of global policing be necessary? Wouldn’t world zones be a likelihood? I hate the thought of it. I love democracy!