[Stratoscope]

Your comment frankly terrifies me. (But I upvoted it nonetheless for being so thought-provoking!)

How does an entire civilization achieve a dramatic course correction without one group of people forcing others to do their will?

Even if it may seem undeniably necessary, who decides what the course correction should be and how it will be implemented?

Or can a course correction be made without somebody deciding for others?

I mean these as honest questions, not just adversarial arguing points. Would very much welcome any insights, thanks!

[salawat]

Generally speaking, the things you've been mentioning have been happening for the last 250 year's. Systems have been put in place that have reinforced certain ways of being as being the ideal or easiest way to do things.

Stuff like class hierarchies, zoning policies, corporatism, segregation... All these little quirks and nudges from the past that may or may not be relevant anymore.

This is why some of the founding fathers did not believe in legislation that was considered binding in perpetuity. With a once and done mindset combined with a psychological reluctance to undo what those before us have done, we lay the foundation through which attitudes hundreds of years old still affect us in our day to day for good or ill without OUR generation having consciously discussed and new a positive decision that a law is worth keeping.

A Government that operates without sunset dates on its laws resembles more a Tyranny of the Dead than a Government of the Living if you will as time goes on.

It doesn't HAVE to happen with violence. However, there has to be some very frank, realistic, high integrity people combing through a lot of detritus for a long time. Making conscious decisions others are willing to back up.

It's not an easy thing. The Framers really never set out for easy in their defense.