[nationcrafting]

I'm not sure why so many people still keep advocating elections in an age when it ought to be clear to any objective observer that the average voter is sleepwalking into a new dark age.

Perhaps it's intellectual laziness, or perhaps it's a trait inherited from a time when a single person's voice still made a difference because communities were only a few hundred or thousand people.

Buckminster Fuller said something that I'm sure will resonate with many HNers, and that seems more likely to bring about positive change:

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, design a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."