Re:This is not a scientific discovery (Score 2)

It's a lot like the events of the last 40 years in the American South, as integration progressed. You assume that integration, like electricity, was something that the bright, educated minds imparted to the dark, untutored ones out in the woods. On the contrary, the last places to integrate have been the halls of academe and the well-heeled suburbs of white flight.

Respect for the idea of racial equality moved from the bottom up - not from the intelligentsia to the masses. It's the intelligentsia that's been hardest to persuade.

Sometimes education simply girds up the loins of prejudice and provides the tools to rationalize and defend the Way It's Always Been.

If there's an analogy to be made with the Internet, then we shouldn't look for innovation to come from the experts only.