>> is this cup half empty or half full, Mr. Tighe? << It's completely full if you include the air - Daniel Suarez

Freedom is overrated. You can be completely free and starving in an igloo in Antarctica. Business is what makes people’s lives better, not democracy. The world is filled with dysfunctional democracies, paralyzed by idiots with votes.

It's knowing one's ... limitations ... and then ignoring them.

The people behind the modern global economy will prevent any meaningful change until it's too late.

But the question that needs to be answered is whether civilization's inability to adapt is a failure of leadership — or an unwillingness in humanity itself.