Can I summarize to clarify your point? Fun runs haven’t solved breast cancer, so it’s probably best to give up on humanity? Is that accurate?

There are also a few, more recent companion books that give a lot of historical context to both Melville and whaling, etc

Why Read Moby Dick? By Nathaniel Philbrick

Ahab’s Rolling Sea, by Richard J King

Cool story, bro. How do you propose to do that? You got a magic wand? How many of those ballot initiatives failed this time around?