“Unlike many intellectually inclined persons, I am not a misanthrope, but an anthrophile. This is someone who revels in the unique beauty and lineages of each person. I believe in people, and love human beings… the tendency toward misanthropy misses the nature of our actual humanity and problems, which lie, primarily, not with persons or groups of people, but with toxic developmental, relational and vocational contexts. Our social contexts are largely counterfeits, and their toxicity finds a home in families, individuals and groups… there being expressed in diverse reactions and frameworks that sustain hatred, opnionation, ignorance, addiction and various forms of ‘living death’. This is not, in my perspective, the fault of individuals, but rather a signal and symptom of the nature of the contexts in and for which they develop minds. These signals can be followed to their origins and resolved, but this activity is rare in our time, in part, because ‘everything that hurts us has a higher social and personal priority.””

— an intellligence agent