Are you proposing to increase freedom of speech and liberalism beyond the current baseline in western societies?
No, just saying that while I agree the problem looks quite hard—like, world-historically, a robust solution would be about as powerful as, well, cities - current conditions seem like they’re unusually favorable to people trying to improve social coordination via explicit reasoning. Conditions are slightly less structurally favorable than the Enlightenment era, but on the other hand we have the advantage of being able to look at the Enlightenment’s track record and try to explicitly account for its failures.
No, just saying that while I agree the problem looks quite hard—like, world-historically, a robust solution would be about as powerful as, well, cities - current conditions seem like they’re unusually favorable to people trying to improve social coordination via explicit reasoning. Conditions are slightly less structurally favorable than the Enlightenment era, but on the other hand we have the advantage of being able to look at the Enlightenment’s track record and try to explicitly account for its failures.