You are right about the beer and our confidence which seems to lessen with age(become more circumspect). In reality men would be just as happy living in a cardboard box, just don't tell the women I said that. More and more I am getting this urge to go live in a shack in the bush with enough level ground to be able to take off and land my plane.

Sounds all right to me. Maybe you just haven't met the right women.

Other than that, if the patriarchal societies that have dominated Western civilization up until, as able contends, the last 25 years or so had bothered to educate their daughters instead of teaching them cooking, needlework, and very little else, said daughters could have done some of that inventing for them (and there are numerous exceptions throughout history that support this). If you want to keep us ignorant and dependent, then don't complain that we've been . . . ignorant and dependent.