Kelrakh t1_iteoj5j wrote on October 23, 2022 at 1:55 AM

Reply to comment by Lord0fHats in Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems by nastratin

I still think you only need a critical mass of elected people who are mostly honest about most things when it doesn't affect their bottom line for things to work out.

E.g. We don't have small children working in coal mines in western nations anymore.

This didn't happen on it own.

Proving that laying out what the world ought to be, rather than accepting what is, did change the world. Otherwise why would the world have any changes for the better at all.

We can't let perfect be the enemy of good nor can we let good be the enemy of slightly-above acceptable. Not if the alternative is a downhill slide.

Lord0fHats t1_iteoyn5 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 1:59 AM

To be honest, I think this is already generally true.

For every famous 'lying' politician, there's 20 or 30 you've simply never heard of because they're too busy working to get on TV. A lot of the betrayals or let downs people complain about are really idealism running headfirst into reality and the expectations people had of the political system were unrealistic.