I used to think David Brin made good points when I first read him. Now I just think he cherry-picks to support his own political views, which I find fairly dist

I used to think David Brin made good points when I first read him. Now I just think he cherry-picks to support his own political views, which I find fairly distasteful. He makes a large amount of totally far-off claims and doesn't cite them at all. There are only a handful of links in this entire thing and that speaks to how supported it is. If you rely on priming and the availability heuristic to make your point about cultural trends you've already lost. I get that David Brin wants to live in a world full of competent people; I get that he wants to be able to trust every human with literally everything; but we aren't there yet and no amount of complaining about culture will make that happen.