QuoteI question the assumption that there are only about 10,000 people who realize this.

Compelling research by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, says that civil disobedience is the most powerful way of shaping world politics.  Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. Chenoweth claims it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in protests to ensure serious political change.

More than ten thousand but less than 10 million or the world would be different by the above.  That's quite a spread, but if the number of well informed is even a million.  I'd be surprised.  If there were a million well informed squirming with truth there would be organized political activity.  Like in the occupy movement days.  We would find each other. 

Nobody wants to hear the message you say.  I agree, and that means very few actually understand our predicament.  The religion of modernity puts no limits on growth, and cultural hegemony silences the blasphemy of thinking the existing system is anything less than perfect.  Belief in the infallibility of technology is rampant, and even radical socialists and others outside the mainstream believe if things were 'fixed' there would be enough stuff to go around.  They are all wrong about that.

I'll move my number up to 100K but any higher, and I play the Trump card.    The Trump card absolutely shows the number of well informed people in America is less than a million.  And considering the duopoly has almost the entire population in thrall I content that the vast majority of citizens of the North American Continent live in intellectual ignorance. 

If we had more than 100,000 well informed people we would hear more than crickets.


And we would find each other offline.

Generations before us saw natural wonders we can't imagine.  Rivers boiling with fish.  The passenger pigeon.  Buffalo as far as the eye can see.  Mammoths and mega-fauna we do not even know about.  Memories gone, memories lost like tears in rain.  In our own time the oldest among us have seen things newer generations don't know about.  There is an entropy to knowledge, a forgetting.  Literacy is also in decline.  Video killed the radio star.  Video is fine, but reading is fundamental.

The number of well informed is not as many as we would wish.  We have wishful thinking, and imagine the number is larger than it is.  How many people know who Derick Jensen is?  If we had a test for doomers that would be on it.  You only get a few seconds to answer or: