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But a real genius can figure a way out of the mess all us idiots got ourselves into.

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They already have. It was called the Enlightenment, and it was where reason and compassion won against the evils of religion and superstition. You live in a pleasant world today because of the collective works of a handful of brave and intelligent people.

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I have no problem accepting your point. But what I see as the relative issue is, in plethora of movements that occurred, they weren't attacks against something as much as they were actions toward something. The establishment of the United States, wasn't a destruction of a Monarchy, it was the movement towards a positive goal. I think the lesson of the Enlightenment wasn't that the good comes about by the destruction of the bad, but that if you focus your energy on the creation of the good, the bad just goes away.

You simply can't stamp out darkness. You just light a candle and it goes away. In other words: you Enlighten. Light is a positive force that darkness has no power over. Fighting darkness, substantiates darkness.