The greater imperative, and indeed, the greater difficulty lies fundamentally in framing the purposes to be achieved; not in the selection of optimum means of achieving them.

This remains for us a deadly and perennial challenge related to the survivable efficacy of representational intelligence in general and our human and cultural intelligence in particular.

And it is perhaps most urgently central to our directing the activities of our collectives, whose methods, costs, and deployments of force are too commonly both devastating and monumental.