Indeed, we should demand better. But it's important to emphasize the bitter lesson that a lot of naive people don't want to learn: identifying a bad thing and t

Indeed, we should demand better. But it's important to emphasize the bitter lesson that a lot of naive people don't want to learn: identifying a bad thing and then tearing it down will often just cause it to be replaced with a worse thing. Power abhors a vacuum, so before you create that vacuum, you better be prepared to replace it with something that will resist the influence of the powers-that-be.