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Faustians cross the boundaries of the system and wrestle with forbidden mysteries. Flockers bury themselves in a bevy of others like themselves and follow the certainties preached by an authority. Faustians take off on odysseys, occasionally returning with fresh visions, Promethean flames around which to shape subcultural societies. Flockers crowd into the warmth provided by the Faustians' discoveries.

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By the mid-eighties, Japan had more money controlling more resources in more countries than any other nation in the world. Its foreign exchange reserve was the world's largest. It was the world's leading exporter and source of loans. The shares on Tokyo's stock exchange topped in value those on the Big Board in New York. Japan possessed 54 percent of all the cash in the world's banks. The top twelve global banks, in fact, were wholly Japanese. The average Japanese per capita income had surpassed that of U.S. citizens, who still spoke of themselves mistakenly as the weatlthiest in the world. (p. 171)

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Sales (of opium) were brisk - eight million pounds of the narcotic were smuggled into China during just one year (1836) - and American merchants like Warren Delano, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandfather, wanted in on a good thing. Many of America's elite families had made their initial fortunes shipping sea otter pelts from North America's frontier to Chinese ports. Now the Coolidge and Forbes clan followed the British lead and took up drug dealing in Canton.

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