Si wrote:When you think about it: if the human race were given a task whereby they had to all work together and do massive engineering and social projects in order to destroy the climatic balance of an entire planet you'd laugh and say it couldn't be done. Yet if you tasked them to merely stop doing some stuff that will spell doom for everyone if they continue to do it, then you'd think "how hard can that be?".
It seems a mistake to think that it's humans doing all the harm. We are, of course, the armatures that operate in doing these harms but in reality it's the ideas - our programs - that are moving we armatures.
Who designs and operates the ideas? Well, not the humans. The ideas are distinct and separate entities that operate us. We think we can choose what to believe but the beliefs choose which humans seem most fertile to their requirements and so......
Cugel