"Monsanto GMO, " You made my case for me "Non-instituionalised religions prove time and time again to be cults." Institutionalized ones tend to be ...hotbeds

"Monsanto GMO, " You made my case for me "Non-instituionalised religions prove time and time again to be cults." Institutionalized ones tend to be ...hotbeds of child abuse, spousal abuse, fraud and grift on a mass scale. "The pharmaceutical industry is based on science, and subject to audits and regulation." You forgot to mention lobbying (AKA legalized bribary) which is used to tailor regulation (writing or enforment) in their favor. "A small fraction of police still commit violent abuses because America is full of aggressive, suppressed, violent people." "Folks are basically decent/conventional wisdom would say/but we read about the exceptions/in the papers every day"(Rush, "Second Nature" ) ACAB didn't appear out of thin air, and the "few bad apples" theory doesn't hold up once you consider that those "bad apples" are not held accountable and are supported by the "good" apples. We are not going to escape the mob (by which I assume you mean criminal?) mentality -just the opposite. Most of history has been strongmen oppressing those who can not fight back assisted by a religion that tells the oppressed that they'll get theirs "by and by" or in another life or that they deserve to suffer full stop (original sin, mixed with the divine right of kings). We had a bright shining moment of roughly half a century -but now that is over, corruption and superstition (Qanon, anti-vax,anti-maskers, flat earthers) are going to take us back to the brutality that most of recorded (and unrecorded) history has been. The only thing we'll be rooting out is weeds in the muddy fields of our multi-national overlords.