An articulate, reasoned and logical argument. Unfortunately, it is already too late. We have opened the box just a crack to see what is inside, and it doesn't look so threatening. So the lid is being relentlessly forced open just a little more....
The box was tightly closed half a century ago and has been untouched for two generations. We are as unprepared for what comes out of it as our great-grandparents were a hundred years ago.