-hard to pick a question for a man who's probably been faced with everyone in the book!

i'd go with this one:

Do you feel that, due to most countries giving soo much authority to a small, countable amount of people, is the reason progress moves at such a painstakingly slow rate?

:)
 

Hmmm! What a question!
Speaking of progress, I might ask him more about how he defines it NOW. Currently. We know that to some, progress is a huge GDP that increases no matter the cost, disproportionate use of resources, injustice, and disparity. We know that some people see everything with en eye toward the immediate. Make your buck now, then get out before the shit hits the fan. People be damned. Poor be damned. Insulate yourself with your money and so on...In their wake they leave devastated communities, environmental problems, conflict, poison. Some see it like two parallel lines- with one off in the distance while the rest of us eat their dust. Sure, both move forward. But one seems not only at the expense of others but of dubious purpose. For what? Is it worth the disconnect? What do we lose? What do we make of people who say we can't save everyone, and not all cultures are worthy? You can't preach validity to the back of a head.

What is the point of moving forward when we still have hungry children, genocide, class struggle in the present? I wonder what he would say about this now, with peak oil and global warming reaching the tipping point. What now? Where is the hope going to come from? It's almost like the question: when is your house big enough, furnished enough- when is it time to retire and pay attention to the important things? When will America do that, and what would it take? When will we look at quality, not quantity? Will we care when our civilization is on it's deathbed? Too damn late, bastards.

"When do we choose the baby over the Mercedes?" How's that for a stupid question! But that's it, really. The gist. *sigh*
 

I'd ask him why writers and intellectuals like himself concerned about social and economic justice have not critiqued the capitalistic, racist and sexist current pornography industry.