In my opinion the sad reality is that societies mostly advance by sticking their finger in their fire. - If not for nukes we'd still be going full-on against e

In my opinion the sad reality is that societies mostly advance by sticking their finger in their fire. - If not for nukes we'd still be going full-on against each other in war. - If not for Hitler, we'd probably still be engaged in top-down government driven eugenics. Something many do not know is that US "progress" on this topic was an early inspiration for Hitler. And here too the solution will likely be letting things reach their natural climax. It's not difficult to imagine a practically infinite number of extreme scenarios when you have centralized authorities with effectively unlimited informational access on their population and perceived 'enemies' - foreign and domestic. One of these scenarios will eventually play out, at which point this dystopic nonsense can hopefully go the way of government driven eugenics as people realize what this can, and inevitably will, culminate in. Oh no no, governments will only involuntarily sterilize the [not me] people. Oh no no, governments will only use mountains of personal and private information to exploit [not me] people.