I tend to believe its the job of the political class to reconcile technological change with societal well-being. I agree-- but I also don't trust the current "

I tend to believe its the job of the political class to reconcile technological change with societal well-being. I agree-- but I also don't trust the current "political class". It's made worse by the current Silicon Valley arrogance, which assumes everything "big" (esp. government) to be intractably mediocre (and, therefore, useless) because the whole populace (i.e. the full IQ spectrum) is a part of it. I feel like this secessionism is a rather Machiavellian move by the technological elite to convince their underlings not to see the big picture, because it's all mediocre and inefficient out there anyway. The attitudes coming out of both the technological and political elites (both anti-intellectual and limited in their own ways) are bad for both sides.