[mdp2021]

> The average ... has what I'd consider a high level of stress, chronic health conditions, one or more pharmaceutical prescriptions, and our food system is sorely lacking and borderline poisonous. With all those factors in play I can't put too much weight behind my view of the average person's intelligence

Affluent societies that abandon an ideal of personal development bound to forces that bring to a catastrophic configuration of society, with devastating effects: the absurdity, the risks and impact, the diversion from propriety merit all focus.

I shall add: the Great Scarcity today is... Societies.