Another grain of intelligent substance from the whirlwind. "When the system is beyond repair...".
I think this may be the core conclusion that you and I do not share, Gigi. I do not see the system as beyond repair, and maybe some day I will eat these words. Partly I am a stupid optimist. Partly I have seen enough of the positive side of human nature to remember it when things look their darkest. I have seen things get better as well as worse over the decades.
But I also know, as I said elsewhere, that the devil is in the details and making change actually occur is like hauling gravel up hill without a truck.
Still, I am voting for possibility and Bobert's smidgen of hope that we can move things into a better vein, one RPM at a time.