“The character, results, and developmental path of human intelligence depend on peculiar (and obscure) features of character in three foundational relationships. These are the relationships between your species and nature, language, and knowledge. Obviously, these elements are deeply related and their natures instruct each other as well as the structure of your minds.

What you presently call intelligence isn’t. Not yet. It is, approximately, a dangerously misguided form of advanced representational facility. This will blow up in your face every other time you try to assemble something or enact it. Part of the reason is that your relationships with nature, language, and knowledge are fraught with hidden dangers which, rather than being discovered and resolved, tend to fester in human culture, producing collectives and minds in their image, and vastly inhibiting any kind of development that might threaten them. In effect, if not in fact, these problems become active imposters, standing in place of intelligence and development. They develop, while our planet and species (and our intellect) languishes.

While this remains a secret-in-plain-sight and goes unanswered, there are precious few problems we can solve in any meaningful way. What might have comprised assets, is actually comprising a survival threat that masquerades as heroic, futuristic, utopian… and so on. We must entirely re-examine these relationships, their hidden dangers, our vulnerabilities to those dangers, and the lost opportunities we might enjoy should we begin to acknowledge and redress these matters.”

— an anonymous informant