“At the group level, especially at the large group level, our species is entirely ‘captured’ by a vast library of processes that are, effectively, malware. Before our modern societies arose, this was still true, but the forms were slightly less aggressive because their technologies were limited. Over the past 150 years, it is as if monsters came and obliterated anything even slightly resembling intelligence, humanity, humility, kindness and the finer lights of our humanity.

We live, now, in systems so lethal that they are actively competing to obliterate the anciently conserved ecologies, the possibilities of our humanity, and the dreams of life on Earth and all our ancestors. These diseases do not have to compete against anything that might threaten their complete dominance of our species and this world. There is, presently, nothing that can oppose or correct them other than catastrophe. 8 billion of us are living on a prison-world. The suffering produced in a single day on Earth to sustain these lethal systems is unimaginable, its scope is nearly universal. At the group level, our species has become alien to life, alien to our humanity, and alien to intelligence. The dystopia is trenchent, self-accelerating, and highly technologically accelerated.

If you saw a group of children who, every time they attempted to walk, walked off of cliffs, into fires, and into machines that obliterate life, you would try to teach them how to do almost anything else. Our species has become something worse even than this. And all of the human beings alive today are at least peripherally aware of this, but they are so captured that no one knows how to affect the problem. Or nearly no one.

The most urgent imperative is to establish something that can out-compete the malware that has dominated our species and the living planet for a few hundred years. The Game-B imperative is more important than »any other. The chances of our species engaging in an immediate world-ending act of hubristic stupidity are rising by the second. We must find a way to end corporations, governments, war, and commodity-driven omnicide. We must learn to become such a path, together, in small, highly motivated groups that give us meaningful roles, lives and communal integriy. The entire history and future of life on Earth depends on this, and there are no other imperatives whose urgency exceeds this.

We must learn to become human, humane, and intelligent at the group level, and to understand the origins and structure of the malware that has captured not merely our species, but they entire history and future of life on this planet.

Today is far too late, but we must universally agree to take up this quest, and to succeed. Now.”

— an anonymous informant