We agree that the current situation won’t change itself, and change to this system from inside of it would likely be stifled and repressed.

I agree that we need to keep trying to find a better way, because there are many people are will certainly keep trying to make things worse for us.

The first step is a better way to communicate between ourselves about what we want, why we want it, and how to enact our intentions.

With the advent and use of the internet we now have the possibility for a new way to organize our collective wants.

This system, which I call a consensus engine, would let us as a species make long term goals and work towards their fruition. Without some way to communicate that is less sustainable to misinformation I don’t see any way we can get out of this into something better.

PBS Space Time is pretty great

But what is unique is the fact that we have an extremely well preserved corpus of text surrounding him.

IIFC all those writing are dated to well after the life time, like 100 year past it or so. It may be a bunch of written things but there is no/little reason to take those writings as anything but written down stories.

Ever play Telephone with a single word for 5 minutes? Now do that to a epic for 100 years, the end result will certainly be something but it may be nothing like the truth

Sounds like the CCP approach to twain with the "but a ‘kingdom’ in the past had this territory so we are entitled to it.

when the food has 2 days worth of sodium in it, you get thirsty. Many people don’t drink enough water so then your thirsty and have your liter-of-cola and you can down it easily at that point

When in most of our lifetimes has the u.s. presidental election not been ‘the lesser of two evils’?

the old re-badge where the same car is made by a different company

Two things be both be true at the same time you know. Also you may not have a firm grasp on geopolitics if you think some elected guy in the USA can literally stop and change other people’s minds and actions in a magical way then you’ll struggle to get any point across to anyone who doesn’t also believe in magic.

but sounded correct to someone who didn’t know better

specious /spē′shəs/ adjective

Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallacious.
"a specious argument."

and then the real answer will be hidden or something silly, or in some cases where money is involved the correct answer might have been removed

They have probably only provided a small amount of available data, and have much more data, of different type.

Yes we’ve got the data, but now we need it from different angles!

They’ve finally gone full /HailCorporate, become the thing some of the original people of the site would probably not have agreed with in many ways

I agree with the title statement. Why do I comment less? Articles much fewer?