Relative to income the cost of technology has fallen dramatically. Super rice and super wheat now feed the world. When I was a boy it cost a working class parent almost a year's wages to purchase the Encyclopaedia Britannica. 100 years ago it took almost a month's wages to put one word on a cabIe to London. Now email is almost costless.
Nobody is a racist, or an ultra nationalist, or a protectionist when their child is sick.
Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement and success. The one lesson that emerges is the need to keep trying. We must cultivate a sceptical faith, avoid dogma, listen and watch well, try to clarify and define ends, the better to choose means.