Perhaps I'm too jaded, but like George Orwell, I don't believe there is any hope among the common man.

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." - George Orwell, 1984

Unlike most of the computer programmer types around here, I work in a highly social industry, and I'm not optimistic. As part of my job, I ask the question "what is your name, and why are you here?" Only about 50% of the people can answer this question successfully. The scope of concepts we discuss on this forum may as well be alien hieroglyphs.

"I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." - F. A. Hayek