you've already constructed that barrier between you and them in your language toward them and describing them as though they aren't you they are different from you, according to you.

You are saying you agree that all people are equal, except for people who think some people are more equal than others.

It seems to me from the article that it's exactly the way you frame people that is a detriment to us all working together to prevent us all from dying horrible deaths in a venus like environment of our own creation.

We are self-destructing precisely because we separate ourselves by ideology, geography, mythology, language.

We describe humans as a "cancer" on the planet, what is our chemotherapy? All humans aren't cancer. The meek will inherit the earth, or so it is said. The opposite of the meek are the corporations especially those like WeWork that grow fast in their own selfish benefit without benefiting the body.

We need a way to remove those cancerous humans without killing all humans.

There are no laws that say, "You are not allowed to serve yourself at the expense of the planet." Corporations used to be required to have a mandate of public good.

Is our capitalistic drive better for the planet? Is technology more harm than it is good? Are Luddites on to something?

It really isn't profitable to sacrifice yourself. We need to make it so that doing without is rewarded. We need to change our philosophy of good. The supercar driver gets mates more than the pedestrian on the sidewalk.

Peacocking works. It's bred into us. We have to overcome our biology. We have to intentionally evolve ourselves into a better species, a more conscious, rationally longterm thinking society. Not one that is rewarded on 90 days out, but one that is rewarded on 90 years out.

We almost need to eradicate DNA as the mechanism by which we propagate.

I don't know how we can fight against that. I suppose we are by not having children. In a way, we are almost too smart. I think at some point, IQ hurts our chances to have offspring and I wonder why that is?

It seems if intelligence was a good thing, then you'd be more likely to mate if you had more of it, but that's not what the statistics indicate.

You can be too smart for your own good. I think humans are too smart for their own good. They are only smart enough to cause trouble -- existential trouble.