Someone has read Isaac Asimov. Asimov wrote, in his Foundation series, about a mathematics developed to predict the course of human events called Psychohistory. Its developer, Hari Seldon, foresees the downfall of the Galactic Empire and establishes the Foundation as the repository of all human knowledge. He utilizes psycho-history to predict crisis and appears in holographic form throughout the history of the re-establishment of galactic civilization in the wake of the fall of the Galactic Empire to offer advice on how to proceed--he becomes the old man who bids his descendants to have faith in themselves. There is, however, a second foundation with more of a behind the scenes hands on approach. The Mule is a mutant that upsets, perhaps, a too cozy status quo - even if vaingloriously and dangerously. But like the Arians who destroyed the stagnant ancient Indian society which for thousands of years even rebuilt every shack and shanty in the same footprint and manner... sometimes a little constructive destruction is warranted.