Terry wrote:

"However the point is, is the future pre-determined? I'd say almost certainly not. However it will be determined by our collective actions in the present."

- Also, of course, by a host of factors over which we have little or no influence.

I sure you're right about "Education (in the widest sense)". It has the potential to facilitate reason based on universal reality rather than local mythology, i.e., on fact rather than fiction. I say potential, because (a) many people seem to be resistant or impervious to it, and (b) many well educated people continue to carry about with them the excess baggage of mythology. Neither does education guarantee good character.

Terry, I've been trying to find info on J.R. Saul's 'false populism' and 'technique of fear'. No luck so far. Do you know of a link? If not, can you tell us more about them?

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler