“People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They’re cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
I mean, you can only beat yourself up so much, they would've just had an ordinary rally and things would've progressed the same
For sure. Also someone else would’ve just invented it