With that said, once a mistake is made, we can't turn back time. I love watching society get stronger and stronger. If you think about it, it's our ability to pass on and learn from our mistakes that has helped us get here today. Otherwise, who knows, we might not even have had agriculture yet.
(Which also could be good or could be bad. For example, I'm allergic to gluten -__- )
Either way, I'll end with this quick story:
http://www.conures.net/stories/horse.shtml
(note: this is a shortened version and the story could go on forever).
That sounds great. Please provide some examples of financial systems (isn't capitalism a big experiment?) and life support systems (yeah we're not poking a stick at the environment at all...) supporting this theory.
I honestly don't have a dog in the bitcoin race, but considering it's a fairly recent invention I expect there'll be some growing pains just like everything else.