This is human behavior. Being selfish and tearing down everything you don’t understand, grabbing power with both hands and using it for your own enrichment, abusing and treating people as disposable, and lying to get more of all of it no matter who it hurts has been human behavior for a very long time. And following it because you think that you can use it, or that you can snap up the scraps that fall from the table, or just because you believe it? That’s human, too. It’s not good, but it’s something that the human race has always been capable of. We see all of both of these things in the oldest documents we have.

If it’s possible to ever grow beyond that as a species, we have to recognize it as a part of us so that we can fight it even when it’s not imminent; if it’s something outside of us, we only have to react to it when it wanders out of the woods. But it’s within us; we have to act before it rears its head and devours us.

This sounds like magical thinking, are you a Christian perhaps