100%. I'm equally suspicious of the tech escape hatch. Unlimited cable news channels and unmoderated social media is what gave us the current mess. Our species is not proving able to cope with everyone having a megaphone. The federal government obviously cannot cope. It feels to me that nation states are breaking up and being replaced by online tribes.

Still, as the saying goes, "Everyone is a libertarian until their house blows down," meaning we still need to make our country work and, unless we choose left or right wing dictatorship, that process has to start at the ballot. One of the two parties no longer believes in the ballot, due to Donald Trump's verifiably horseshit lies. That's a problem.

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It would be great if ecery tribe could have their planet and you choose the planet on the basis of the tribe you'd like to belong to?

I guess people have to find out a way how to do it on one planet without killing each other. But still it would be nice if the tribes didn't have to force their will on others because they would have their countries/cities/neighbourhoods with their own rules instead of this ever increasing push for "one size needs to fit all".