He changed his own life and that of a great many others. Do you limit yourself to just a single group of humans? That would be far too limiting for me.

Like everyone else I have my good points and my not good points, my areas of wisdom and also of foolishness. But I don't believe any are necessarily superior, nor inferior, though all are unique in their own way.

I frankly expect mankind to go extinct because we rearrange things that are better left alone. All of our past civilizations have mostly self-destructed, each believing they were special and never learning the mistakes that destroy such groups.

I think the United States is losing any importance it thought it had. The same level of corruption that took down Britain before us. Civilization world-wide is crumbling. High-tech civilization is far more fragile than pre-tech. One good solar storm can crash it. So can out of control AI can do it.

If Earth creates another intelligent being will it be an improvement. Scientists suggest the possibility that no beings survive their civilization. That would be the ultimate joke.