“The common person, and these people are more common in the West, particularly in the US, can usually operate a vehicle, and possibly a few different vehicles, relatively successfully.

This is not true, however, of their own minds or intelligence. Such people generally possess the approximate capacities to protect, develop and enact their intelligence that an infant possesses in relation to its ability to engineer, assemble, test, and pilot a jet aircraft. So, too, our collectives.

Strangely, rather than develop these faculties, we rush boldy forward into enacting the relatively insane (or stupid) projections of our as-yet-extremely-primitive capacity to be intelligent.

We cannot yet pilot the vehicle of our representational intelligence, and, instead of learning, we simply assemble ever-more dramatic disasters, each of which up the ante of this gamble by creating further problems we are unlikely to even notice, let alone solve. And these exacerbate and preserve the problems we started with.

Perhaps we should learn to pilot our intelligence prior to assembling billions of objects and machines whose demands, functions, and presence insure not only our inability to do so, but the precipitous decline of any remnants of these opportunities.”

— an anonymous informant