Cory, please try to take the long view. We clearly are in the midst of a second renaissance, and it will be of even wider scope and more inclusive than the first. And the first brought down the medieval church and returned science to the Western world.
Power is decentralizing all around us and the level of discourse is improving - it’s no accident that, incomplete as it was, the Arab Spring happened a scant 20 years (one generation!) after the Web was created. I know that the oligarchs are working hard to centralize power, but this is a race they can’t hope to win. The fabric of the Web is intrinsically decentralizing of power.
You are deep in the thickets of it all, which can be discouraging. But change is happening, and you’re an important part of it. I heard you speak in Cambridge (MA) last year and you were brilliant.
And your grief over Aaron honors him.
Be well, and take heart -
