They saw every event through the distorting lens of their own paranoia. - Charles Sheffield

I think my inner voices are pretty good when it comes to warning of trouble. The problem is, I don’t always listen to them.

Human history extends for approximately ten thousand years before the Expansion, with written records available for roughly half that time. Unfortunately, the human tendency for self-delusion, self-aggrandizement, and baseless faith in human superiority over all other intelligent life-forms renders much of the written record unreliable. Serious research workers are advised to seek alternative primary data sources concerning humans. —From the Universal Species Catalog (Subclass: Sapients)

That’s what logic says. But I say, phooey, who wants logic? Not you, and not me. We want results.