No, it wasn't. You aren't English and you don't know why that is. Of course, if you knew any history you would remember that Zen comes from Japan, which was your enemy in a long-ago war which you have forgotten. But you don't. All your sort thinks about is grubbing money and you trade with just any tinpot nation that comes down the pike. In fact, you are just any tinpot nation that comes down the pike.
I can assure you, Lynx is a person who is about as least interested in money as it gets, aside from keeping his family safe and sheltered. And what resources he does get, he uses to help other people.
Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering what happened in your life that has made you automatically look down upon and assume everyone else around you to be intellectual paupers?
You would completely scoff at my family, as my grandparents were uneducated farmers, and my dad worked as a bagger in a local grocery store instead of going to college (rather, he wound up working his way up and becoming a head partner of the company chain instead.)
My parents saved every dime they earned, were able to retire early, and fulfill their dream of going into financial ministry (helping people get out of debt and find financial freedom.) They also made it available to as many people as they could, driving out to see those who couldn't afford the gas money, and supplying all the materials to anyone interested in their classes at their own expense, because they were dismayed at the thought of people not being able to get help due the fees others were charging.
My grandparents saved everything they made as well in order to travel the world, during which their lessons were things like African safaris in tents, and the running of the bulls in Spain. As a kid, I loved the stories of their travels and it was always an inspiration to me to meet people from others places and cultures.
I understand that God teaches us to seek wisdom, but He has also said that in addition, He places wisdom in uncommon things and in unlikely people.
What is it that's happened to you to that you have made what you perceive as your own intellectual standard your God, and the ruler by which you feel entitled to measure everyone else? What do you think of some of Jesus' own disciples being simple fisherman, who were despised by the intellectual and spiritual experts of that time?
I couldn't help but notice that the entire first paragraph of your original post is just one long run-on sentence, and I would have thought that someone professing such intellectual superiority would have caught and revised it.
I am neither a writer and I am certainly not someone of high intellect (by your given standards,) but even I could recognize that your introduction was written in a style that makes it extremely hard to read.
However, you simply write it off as being that your audience is too stupid and far behind to be able to understand you.
Why?