Amen, brother.  However, this is really a fairly distant issue.  Jgarzik is certainly correct that bitcoin can scale external to the main blockchain as well as it can via a hard fork for the main chain.  If we can't garner an overwelming majority in favor of changing the protocol, it's not likely to ever be changed.  That would not be the end of bitcoin, but would certainly alter how the average end user transacts with bitcoin.  I would be in favor of raising the hard limit to 10-20 MBs, so long as the soft limit remains, and perhaps a passive soft limit rule is included in future clients; but only after much consideration and time.  It has taken us four years to start bumping into the soft limit, we're not really at risk of hitting the hard limit any time soon. 

Guys, cool down.  No one is going to be making any changes to anything soon.