I agree, but... When the governing cohort is too small it's called dictatorship, when the middle class meaning those who are active in society, engaged, interested, are to few even in democracy at maximum we can call oligarchy.

I think most have no hope, but if we could nurture those who can we can evolve, if they are to few and scattered intelligence decrease (as it do since some decades apparently) because intelligence, knowledge it's the sole natural resource who grow with usage and decline otherwise. 

Me personally I'm convinced we could escape, as humanity, since we are here since centuries and we have always make it. But for the arc of my life, for the foreseeable future I'm not really optimistic at all...

When we loose, and that's already almost lost, much basic knowledge, rebuild it with some giants who still possess it and fight for their own power as anyone else is an extremely hard task. Nostr if very nice but I see in it's current state of development the issue of "modern techies" who do not really know "old school FLOSS" and so fails to design/deliver something in a shape apt to spread effectively, the basic tech is there, the engine, the controls, but the cockpit is nearly missing and that's an issue. Similarly for cryptos in general nearly anything is essentially there but still it's missed the quid needed to convince a sufficiently vast cohort of people to became mainstream for the masses, not just for few.