At this point, a couple of things should be obvious to anyone with a functioning intellect.
(Please note that I make a distinction here between a brain and the intellect, which, while they depend on each other to be useful, are not the same things.)
A popular American myth we all absorbed osmotically just by breathing the air here: Anyone can grow up to be president.
Obviously, at this point, nonsense, though in an absolutely literal sense it seems to be true enough. After all, consider the present reality. But like all such euphemisms, there are too many assumptions packed in there that too many people take too little time unpacking to realize that what this means and what it can result in are worlds apart.…