No matter how many toys, gadgets, and gizmos we create, we're still batting zero in social evolution. Mostly. (We can talk about one exception, later on.)
Considering the number of apologies we've received from the banksters who nearly collapsed the world economy with their charlatan scams and bottomless greed. My count still stands at Precisely None, in both the Forced and Unforced categories.
Same can be said for quickie payday loan companies and self-financed car lots who routinely gouge customers at 30% interest rates, or more. Same can be said for the Martin Shreklis of the world, who believe a 4,000% or 5,000% price hike on a drug is good for everyone, including consumers.
Same goes for the then-new, Neo-Con con-artists who decided on decimating a cradle of civilization in search of nonexistent WMDs. A million dead, more injured, a few trillion dollars more in debt to no good purpose -- I'm still naive enough to want some sort of basic apology for this, as a start, as a prelude to real change.
I will be waiting a long time, I know: I am not that naive.
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