What we need, and may be arriving at by the same process the Titanic used to arrive at the iceberg, is a New Age of Enlightenment. Many have seized the mantle of this over the last 100 plus years, but all were partial in nature at best and steps backward into the darkness at worst.

What we have seen is mostly the acquisition of physical knowledge, much of it false, and almost all of it misinterpreted. Even philosophical advances such as the Civil Rights Movement almost immediately sunk back into the very morass of ideas-without-thought that it was supposed to rise above.

What we need is a genuine recognition of What Really Works and What Really Has Not. The current awakening is driven as much by the realization that the tired old rusty Kaiser Frasher is never going to run, pollution free, on moonbeams extracted from cucumbers as it is driven by philosophy.