@ewen who can even have the ability to participate in society, and education has always been just out of reach of the majority of folks.
But the best I can hope for is that change - even with the worst growing pains still teaches us who we -want- to be rather than who we're -forced- to be. And being human, we're always bad at things before we get good at them.
I like to hope that as we continue to move forward, and as the illusion of the western-style lives we've cultivated dissipate, we grow up