Computers have already changed the ways people brains work, especially in the young

 I grew up mostly in the 1950s. People then here in the U.S. expressed their opinions whether they were racist or anti-ethnic or whatever those opinions were openly and often got into fist fights over their positions.

I observed all this as a child in Seattle and in San Diego and in the Los Angeles area where I mostly grew up as a child.

However, I think It might be the zeros and ones in computers that changed all this to a right or wrong point of view that I often see young people expressing which might be humanistic or atheistic but  where people are not open to other points of view at all whether their views are left, center or right in nature.

And here is the danger to democracies where people cannot tolerate any point of view but their own.

For example, my son in law yesterday were talking about abortion and he was having problems with a close friend of theirs who was extreme in her position about abortion. He is from Austria which is a Catholic Country and a lawyer and was saying that he believed that the fetus has equal rights to the mother and so he was troubled by someone who said that a woman's body is her own business and that she should be able to have an abortion any time she wants to and that the fetus doesn't have rights and the biological father doesn't have any rights or say in this either.

I told him my opinion which is that although Abortion should be abhorrent to everyone it is also the single thing now which prevents human extinction. Either you sterilize most of mankind or you allow them to have abortions or you have to give everyone the RU-486 morning after pill so they can quickly end pregnancies before they become a bigger deal (and before anyone realizes you are pregnant by anyone).

The problem I'm trying to demonstrate is how intractable people are tending to get especially younger people where it's always "My way or the highway" and there is no toleration at all for any other point of view.

Where there is no toleration for other points of view Democracy cannot function and cannot flourish at all.

So, we likely are at the most dangerous time for our democracy since maybe the Cold War and World War II at this point in our lives.

But, I can remember my father believing (because of nuclear weapons) in the 1950s and 1960s "Better Dead than Red". And I also believed this at the time too.

It basically was saying: "Rather than give up our democracy it is better we all die in a nuclear holocaust."

So, it is very lucky (at least on this 2nd timeline) where we all didn't have to die in a nuclear holocaust already on September 11th 2001.