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~inquiry

Looking back at the varieties of "eternal septembers" I've endured over the decades, forgive me if I'm a wee bit too jaded to embrace the word 'we' when it comes to species progress. My experience has been more like:

1) A few intelligent people invent and mutually enjoy an amazing thing.

2) Hoards of morons arrive to entropy (as a verb) it into a cracked, faded, often miserable husk of what it was when mostly intelligence populated.

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~tetris wrote (thread):

When I was younger I really used to believe in people, and would chalk down any talk about the 'ignorant masses' as just pure elitism.

Sure, some of it was elitism, but now as I get a bit older and more jaded with this world of ours, I am swaying more into the camp of 'at least the elites know what they are doing'.

I just hope the elites can empower everyone as they progress, instead of this widening gap I keep seeing.