Incompetence is going to save democracy

[H2O Man]

2. Right.

At times, I am reminded of Woody Allen's speech to graduates:

"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. I speak, by the way, not with any sense . of futility, but with a pan- icky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence which could easily be misinterpreted as pessimism. It is not. It is merely a healthy concern for the predicament of modern man. (Modern man is here defined as any person born after Nietzche's edict that 'God is dead,' but before the hit recording 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.') This 'predicament' can be stated one of two ways, though certain linguistic philosophers prefer to reduce it to a mathmatical equation where it can be easily solved and even carried around in the wallet.”