Good points. Our primitive aspects are real. My hope is to get them out in the open to be examined. Just as man has always struggled, man also shows consistent capacity to slowly improve morally. It doesn’t happen by itself. It happens thru ideas and leadership that grow into movements that turn into change. There have always been the cynics and there have always been the idealists. There is massive futility in both, but less so for the idealists and dreamers, who rightfully own all the positive changes that have occurred in history, and when you add them up, you must admit there are MANY. Today’s idealists are no different. Most of us are spitting in the wind, but it is the combined efforts of millions that lead to the few whose names are associated with change. Which team are you on: that’s the only remaining question.

Your point about the mechanics of rhetoric and confirmation bias is astute. Articulating the problem is half of finding a solution, so you’re doing good work. Thank you.