You allude to it later, but I would argue for a parallel narrative for the ‘cost of ignorance’ and cultural division. The parallels are obvious, but the relation between collective ignorance and its societal impact involves a layer of complexity due to the role of how information propagates in the networked and digital society.
Even if arguably related (ignorance and poverty), ignorance and its consequences (that become increasingly clear in the socio-political landscape) exist *within* humans, meaning that even if poverty is a root, the eradication of poverty might not follow with an eradication of societal instability and division.
So if we assume it to be true, that both are a form of disease, but have become partly independent despite sharing roots, what would be the vaccine for a society rife with diseases borne from generations of inequality and ignorance, augmented in today’s hyperconnected but spiritually deprived world?
I’m biased of course, as we’re trying to answer this at Ananas(.org.uk), but would love to hear your thoughts, because there are not enough people thinking about how to prepare society for the immense changes that are bound to come.
