This is the big picture. Yes, it’s coming; the monkeys are going to the stars, better smoothly or not so smoothly. It’s not clear, but the monkeys are going to the stars and they’re going to take everyone with them. It can be a relatively smooth birth with no tearing and no bleeding, and everything just moving right along, or it can be wholly

Jacques Ellul, and he wrote a book called The Technological Society, and in There he had an axiom, and the axiom was there are no political solutions, only technological ones.

The rest is propaganda.

The notion of species is simply a 17th century convention of biological classification begun by Linnaeus, because when you visually look around with no awareness of geological time, you do seem to see distinctive plants and animals.