Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child. - Edward O. Wilson

to get hold of the human condition, we need next a much broader definition of history than is conventionally used.

Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care.

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.