Comment by Yoric

All of this is research from the 90s, with a few decades of polish.

Now maybe we could start looking at what research labs have come up with since then.

> Hell, the state the US is in currently is largely explained by the fact that most all the problems in society have been solved to the extent that people have to invent bogeymen and elect a demented felon into office on the promise of solving those problems.

That's... an interesting point. I don't really buy it, though. The same could have been said of the fascist movement in Italy, or the royalists in France in 1905.