it would be both a magnificent evolution and enabler of great revolutionary advances.

Imagine a nation where every ten steps forward weren’t accompanied by nine abysmally tragic and stupid missteps back...

since this nation seems unable to learn from our own history and we always end up going back and repeating our errors, wasting time, money and energy. I am a realist.

Still, surely realistic idealists can do more in creating processes that lead to the results needed? With the advent of IT, the right has had tremendous success in training populations to react emotionally, bypassing reasoning altogether. They're working with huge advantages of primitive emotions, especially fear, over the work of reason of course, but never forgetting that, in spite of those who forever drag us backward, mankind has always advanced.

Btw, we believed the educational and liberalizing effects of the internet would be revolutionary, before evil scoundrels developed techniques to use it for corruption and mental enslavement. But perhaps the big effects of having truth, information and the reasoning of fine minds immediately available to billions are just lagging behind those of lies, as they've always done..?

(Rising sun picture here.)