Until 'could', 'would', 'should', "I wish" and "I hope", become 'will', 'do', 'can', 'are' and "I see", your rhetoric, Little Hawk, means little. The point I have tried to get across is that the way this world is going *currently* is what we have to contend with. Our goal cannot realistically count on some idyllic far-off Utopia which does not appear all that likely to materialize. Who was it who said that planning on winning the lottery is not a good retirement plan? We are not talking about an informed, intelligent, mature people, we are having to make do with the people we have and hoping that there is a high enough proportion of them that are informed, intelligent and mature to make it possible to figure out the paths that mankind needs to take in order to survive.

(By the way, I'm enjoying our personal messages dialogue)