>Rudyard Kipling
I posted a lot of Kipling back on cbts/CBTS but never got any traction despite the fact he was grounded in everything (real) anons value. Odd.
>weaponized-meteor-strike
I read a science fiction book years ago that had a space rock bombardment of Cheyenne Mountain as part of the story.
BTW, Lucifer's Hammer is timeless, a must read. Pournelle and Nivens knocked that one out of the park.
Created tens of millions of preppers in a single tome.
>It seems to me that stories & poetry can condense wisdom in a way that it carries through the ages so that that wisdom can be applied even under very different times & circumstances.
Real literature is timeless. It might not be in vogue today, but it will eventually cycle back into being known wisdom. What I came to realize about Kipling was he predated Smedley Butler by decades in seeing through the military/industrial complex, though he could not say the truth outright given his career, reputation and the "Empire", unlike Gen'l Butler living in what was almost a free country.
>The way to wisdom IS NOT Kipling or any other works of fiction.
I don't disagree about math, but Kipling was illustrating history and his experience and insight into colonialism. That defines wisdom, math is knowledge. Math cannot impart or relate wisdom unless the mathematician realizes his postulates will turn to shit with the next generation of genius's. That's wisdom.