Damn, fat fingers, small screen 😖

Anyway, 250 years ago the fundamental fabric holding it all together was the necessity of a virtuous people.

John Adams said, “Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” That is the wrench you’re trying to engineer away from (as do I in my writing). The problem we have as engineers is thinking the chaos of millions can be controlled by equations - predicted, possibly, controlled, no.

What the founders hoped, prayed was that self-interest, morality, common heritage/experiences would suffice. But we’ve allowed avarice, greed (not the same as self-interest), accumulations of power to corrupt our body politic. What needs to happen is wringing out the elements that are corrupting the institution(s).