Every time we are faced with an unpleasant political or economic consequence, if we can identify the source of the problem, we can look back in time and see that at least one mind had realized, from the very beginning, what was going to happen. Sometimes, there were many such minds, and the consequences were scandalously obvious. Even so, disaster ensued. Hence, a society is never so wretched as to be held hostage by its own complexity, which supposedly prevents it from seeing the course it is taking. What undermines it is the disdain for thinking minds and the inclination toward simplistic rhetoric—which, in short, is the same as choosing disorientation.