Fantastic piece!
I'm going to pull out one quote and just refine it as bit. Capitalizations are mine:
"This perspective sees the world ending soon unless everyone ELSE everywhere ELSE magically changes the way they live."
Andrew:
You have summarized what has been going on through my mind in the 31 months I've been on Medium. Medium is about my 10the internet forum to promote my alternative democracy. I see a higher degree of writing skills and rationality than those other places I used to visit. I was hopeful. Yet Medium people still can't investigate my ideas.
People aren't ready for solutions, they want to blame someone ELSE.