Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.
Worry not so much about other peoples morals but more about your own.
You can't suffer over two things at once.
In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.
Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.