First, by understanding what it takes to turn around a community dancing heedlessly on the crumbling edge of a cliff:
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. . . and, what predictably happens if we go along with the suicidal "flow":
Underlying, it will be helpful to ponder who set up the Plato's Cave Shadow shows we may be confusing for sound reality, and what it takes to move the now notorious Overton Window:
Yes, ideology can lead a nation or a civilisation to ruin. After we saw the havoc wreaked by the Communists and Nazis in the last century, we should be doubly wary of today's Pied Pipers.
I like this video on Plato's parable, just ask yourselves about the spinmeisters behind the show that creates a false sense of reality:
This brings us back to the centrality of built in naturally evident first law, which can equip us for sound reformation. This can give us a framework of soundness that then helps us built critical mass to turn back from folly:
(And yes, given that it takes about a dozen exposures to break through the filters so we can actually hear a message in its own terms, we will see things like this chart again.)
Obviously, a first step is to begin to see things more accurately.
For example, we need to move beyond the outdated left-centre-right political spectrum. That was based on, champions of the traditional order sat on the Speaker's favoured right hand, and the ever more suspect sat to the left, the sinister side. In a day where the nominal centre -- the Overton Window -- is pulled this way and that and in which even the wrong words or daring to mention obvious but unwelcome truth can get one censored, that is even more outdated than it was once the American experiment in constitutional, democratic self government had clearly succeeded 150 years ago.
Instead, we need to think in terms of tyranny, lawful government, constitutional, self government, where radical, lawless fashionably ideological oligarchy is every inch as tyrannical as any half mad colonial governor or would be absolutist king:
So, we can proceed to promote sound reformation by highlighting how we depend on cultural buttresses to support a constitutional democracy, as a corrupted public will undermine any attempt to balance freedom and lawful order. In that context, we can see how we can slide into lawless oligarchy if we forget first principles.
So, let us seek to build critical mass for sound reform. END
