“It’s like trying to cut metal with a paper knife, or a bird attempting to fly with its beak, and then becoming angry when it remains grounded while predators approach.

Having failed to advance the systems upon which our government and societies are founded, we are faced with a bizarre double-bind; voting is at once a kind of elaborate tragicomedy, and yet somehow necessary.

No one would be upset to discover that a paper airplane is obliterated by a bullet; but the common people are confused when voting fails to establish a just or humane (or intelligent) society. Perhaps they cannot see that these results cannot ensue from our societies as presently established, in part due to the fact that the priorities they embody are fundamentally falsified, and in part because we have never accomplished the intentions of the founders — specifically, that revolution is a necessary ingredient in anything that we might reasonably refer to as democracy.

Yet it remains both possible and deeply necessary that we employ the staggeringly advanced technologies we have developed for such purposes. You cannot run photoshop on a TRS-80, and, similarly, we cannot run democracy on the bizarre and intrinsically conflicted systems presently in place… especially when those few developments we have implemented came not in its favor, but its shadow.

It is thus clear that we must learn to employ out technologies in new ways that empower individuals and communities to acquire meaningful roles and identities in the process of correcting our governments, their foundations, and their future. And we are perfectly capable of doing so… indeed, we have been for many decades now.

The need is so urgent that it should easily outcompete nearly all contending agendas, and our ongoing failure to attend it is among the most devastating tragedies of history, for it is a different matter to extend suffering and confusion to a few thousand people than it is to many billions… and the entire future of life on Earth.”

— an intelligence agent