Konyok,

I stand corrected. You are most assuredly right. The shortest feedback loop – and the foundation of our cultural innate immunity – is the individual, ourselves.

However, I would say that no man is an island, and if everything else is screwed up – family, neighborhood, city, state, and national – an individual cannot long stand. Except for the Great Man, which is, as we discussed, in short supply. System-wide, we don’t stand a chance if we require a Great Man.

Sinners are many; saints are few.

L3