Human intelligence is catastrophically broken, and the evidence of this is that our most fundamental relationships with thought, language, and knowledge are consistently leading us into disaster — particularly where we assemble and empower sociopolitical entities through consensus.

So if you’re interested in repairing any of the results of this damage, I suggest that you re-frame your approach and focus on resolving the sources of these issues rather than the outcomes. Any other move will cost the same amount of effort and result in failure; because a new monster will simply rise to replace each one we take down — and each new monster thus empowered will generally be more resilient and more capable of repulsing our efforts than the one we thought defeated.

We must repair human intelligence itself (specifically: our cognitive relations with -=identity=-) before we can reasonably affect the problems this damage propagates.

And this goal is attainable.

It seems impossible, but 20 years ago, so did most of the technologies we now take for granted. We need to put the same sort of foresight and insight into our intellectual and relational technologies that we currently squander on our physical and industrial technologies. And we can make that happen: first, with ourselves… and then… with our relations.

And more: we can make this process astonishingly contagious.