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"Do you think the world can be solved through education? Or does the comment amount to saying 'I wish people would stop saying and doing ignorant things.'"

Neither, I was just openly wondering whether there are ways to more effectively create new conversations.

"Part of that is expecting knowledge to accumulate in the population culminating in a climax that will lead to improvements or resolution of conflicts or social ills."

Yes, revolutionary (or Event-driven) thinking does interact with this, though I don't think that influence is unidirectional. I.e., people think this is Srs Bsns because of The Revolution, and people want to believe in The Revolution because it gives their life the illusion of meaning.

"Abandon the discoursive role of hoping to be a teacher or luminary to the masses and apply those valuable historical lessons -that seem profound but one is mostly powerless to their implications, as one is to macro processes, specially those of mid to long duration- to yourself and put into practice this superior way forward based on historical insight and longsightedness(?)."

Oh I have approximately 0 interest in the masses or movements (other than just like, situational awareness); like the other anon said, I think you've misinterpreted what I was saying. The point isn't "how do we educate these actors into being most effective", so much as "are there better ways of exploring spaces as they open up".

"What necessary process are you referring to? Progress, as in a steady improvement in the “consciousness” -knowledge of history, critical thinking, battle tactics, shared experiences - of whole populations that will make them excel at revolt?"

Lol no. "Necessary process" here just meant "rehashing these old conversations every time is just how this information is spread." Basically I was asking whether these threads on @news will ever go away, or if there's a way to frame things so that we get a larger body of new ideas, relatively speaking, that are reflective of our current context (whatever that may be). And it is a legitimate question, not rhetorical; I'm really curious if there's a way to prompt discussions that don't just get a bunch of responses of "what we need to do is attack HARDER."