Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their beh

Once you get to the point where you recognize genes make us puppets on their behalf, and that all speech is justification and negotiation, and that we have limited means of coercion of one another, then human behavior as well as all human history is easily comprehended.

Empathy works somewhat to overload us. Suggestion can be used to invoke empathy and sympathy and therefore overload us.

We thought the world was flat.

We though we were self aware.

But they are both errors in observation.