Brilliant essay Frank. It is so odd that technological progress has brought us full circle and is now racing to return us to the Dark Ages. The reductio-ad-absurdum is the current headlong race for AGI (superhuman intelligence). Humans as a mere piece of nature will be destroyed along with most other processes and products of natural systems. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/fast-furious-techno-feudalism-artificial-intelligence-and-the-death-of-human-agency-afc0ed4da941