And for a moment I accept the triumph as I had managed it.” - Nadine Gordimer

Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

Without real opposition you get dictators down the line. Idi, Amin, Mugabe. No democracy without opposition.