The people who truly advance our knowledge of the universe are quite rare, and we don’t know how to make them appear

I'm not sure you fully appreciate how long we have been suppressed. The reality, the history you believe in has almost nothing to do with Reality according to my investigations. History is a lie.

Playing the odds by having a hundred billion times our current population spread across the galaxy seems entirely reasonable to me

I have no problem becoming interstellar. I think that's a great idea. By all means, be fruitful and multiply, but the suggestion to do so, without first having the capacity to expand is putting the cart before the horse.

Interstellar distances also prevent any form of centralized elite, as multi-year travel times demolish any attempts at centralized control.

I'm not entirely sure that's true. I think the whole "FTL" thing may be suppressed tech.

The people who truly advance our knowledge of the universe are quite rare, and we don’t know how to make them appear

I'm not sure you fully appreciate how long we have been suppressed. The reality, the history you believe in has almost nothing to do with Reality according to my investigations History is a lie.

Playing the odds by having a hundred billion times our current population spread across the galaxy seems entirely reasonable to me

I have no problem becoming interstellar. I think that's a great idea. By all means, be fruitful and multiply, but the suggestion to do so, without first having the capacity to expand is putting the cart before the horse.

Interstellar distances also prevent any form of centralized elite, as multi-year travel times demolish any attempts at centralized control.

I'm not entirely sure that's true. I think the whole "FTL" thing may be suppressed tech.