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> If everyone is educated they'll challenge dogma of the church, for one.

But this was a correct prediction.

It took the Church down a few pegs and let corporations fill that void. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, and this time they aren't making the mistake of committing doctrine to paper.

> we'll just cope with intelligence being a non-scarce commodity available to anyone.

Or we'll just poison the "intelligence" available to the masses.




> But this was a correct prediction.

And yet the sky didn't fall.

> Or we'll just poison the "intelligence"

We really don't know how that will pan out. All I have is history to inform me, and even the most radical revolutions have worked out with humans continuing to move forward with increased capacity and better living conditions overall. The new boss is way better than the old.




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