I find that this is not an appropriate place to discuss totalitarianism, etatism, and utilitarianism; especially when your post is grandiloquent in nature.
Apparently, the principle laid down by Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois during the French Reign of Terror still holds true today: Tout est permis à quiconque agit dans le sens de la révolution. Personally, I'm afraid that eventually, it'll impale us on a Morton's Fork: Either we let it sidetrack us so we can't give our young people the values that will inspire them to solve the problems that are important to most people, or it'll impact public policy for years to come. Regardless of which we choose, conspiracy theories are some people's bread and butter, and the wilder, the better. Its most outré claim is that the majority of self-centered quacks work 25 hours a day, eight days a week and thus deserve occasionally to don the mantel of mandarinism and suppress all news that portrays it in a bad light.
