“These birds were, in effect, recording the sounds of their own habitat destruction. And they were doing this, ironically, inside their mating songs.”

— Article noting that Lyrebirds inserted chainsaw and car-alarm noises into their mating repertoire.

Here’s the problem:

Human intelligence is doing precisely the same thing inside the lost -habitat- of our object relationships. These used to be personal and environmental relationships. Now, they are objects and functions.

And since -that is what you see with-… you can’t see this.