Radical activists can't ignore the fact that we live in this world, like it or not, and have to make difficult decisions about which paths are the best - or sometimes, the least harmful. There are no abstract formulas. Have to think through each case on its own.

The United States is absolutely the most dangerous country in the world.

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent alternative to the idea that mutations take place in individuals, not communities, so that whatever rewiring of the brain yielded the apparently unique properties of language, specifically recursive generation of hierarchically structured expressions, would therefore have taken place in an individual, and only later been used among individuals who had inherited this capacity.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

I'm sorry to say it has some historical analogs. It's kind of reminiscent of what happened in Germany in the late Weimar years.

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.