 It is an idea that in this big, easy world of yackety-yack seems to violate the rules of game theory, if not of reason. It violates the ideas of Adam Smith's invisible hand, our ideas of human nature, and probably the second law of thermodynamics. And that idea is this. You are your brother's keeper. Eight years, and he said patriotism didn't bring him through as much as he loved the country. They punished him too greatly and severely.