Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails,

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3. Some excellent points.

" we will be left with a bunch of people whose minds haven't been changed, who are eager to make it all better like it was before", who will follow some goofball preacher that says his snake oil will get us all better again"

...Just as it's been for century after century. Our only hope ultimately will be the changing of those minds. It only took one religious zealot to start the collapse of the Renaissance. It will have to be a monumental change since it is deeply ingrained in human civilization and has even become a "gene of the mind" memetics if I may, and it's root is in fear and greed, two even deeper aspects of human behavior.

It's gonna be a big job. We'd better get crackin'.