Mountebanks and their Claques' Cliques.

A book titled Explaining Hitler by Ron Rosenbaum has introduced two new words to me: mountebank and claque; the second of these words being merely a coincidental fit with the concept of a Clique. I knew neither of these two words nor their association in Rosenbaum's book before I picked it up and read it.

Saying that, I'm probably a bit, unfortunately, of a claqueless mountebank. I have a few supporters for my idea, but sensing yet no one so bold as to be counted a member of the claque that I lack. Maybe others are waiting for this claque to materialise before they join.

Witnessing the phenomenon of mountebanks and their claques in many of my exchanges on email groups, the concern that I lack one of these appears a considerable obstacle to the promotion of Clique Space(TM). Saying that, I think it is only a concern to me insofar as I currently have less than 11.5 months to garner a well-moneyed claque before the PCT lapses.

In regard to lapsing PCT's, one cannot commit too much emotion to this process; the tax to one's sanity would otherwise be too great. I have done my best, and if no one likes my idea (I accept the possibility that my idea might be crap, but am yet to accept the substance of that possibility itself) I will have to be philosophical about this outcome. The idea that I need to spend 150 thousand dollars to secure national phase patent applications is unattainable by me as an individual. Maybe, also, my idea might be too abstract to be sufficiently enforceable, but I doubt this one currently as I still have not seen another make an adversarial move which might indicate this possibility.

I believe society will embrace Clique Space, or a similar idea that empowers individuals with the facility to control their virtual presence and collect activity logs of their interactions with any other individual over any electronic medium capable of being represented in any number of Clique Spaces. Whether or not society responds to this embracing inevitability in time for me to see a consideration for it will be decided by others.