Marlo; perhaps the speed with which the “market” sometimes moves is a sad reality. Lynching your neighbors, and the other “ideas” you reference eventually sank because they were so bad. It just took time, often too much time. Free speech is where bad ideas germinate but it is also where good ideas rise to crush them. Putin’s madness is a current example. In the end, he and his bad idea will die.

The ragged outlier of peaceful society is human behavior. We are strange creatures, often easily manipulated by our emotions and blinded to the mass of what is beautiful and good by the fear of what is ugly. The polarity of heaven and earth, god and devil, that makes so many so susceptible.