Nous sommes si intelligents que nous sommes inadaptés et que nous nous suicidons. - Derrick Jensen

The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one’s mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.” The question still hangs heavy in the air: If our behavior is not making us happy, why do we act this way?

We've had a long time to get used to the screams. Just as our
civilizations expansion is marked by a widening circle of genocide, so too
forests and all of their inhabitants precede us. Deserts dog our heels.

Because their supremacist perspective is unquestioned — and the supremacists would prefer it remain that way — all questioning of that supremacism by definition will be classed as speculation, and all speculation on that subject will be discouraged.