It’d be a better world if there was always at least one right answer instead of a basket of fucked. - James S. A. Corey

How to achieve a more robust homeostasis. Just because it's difficult to do doesn't make the principal science unsolvable.
So not unnatural at all," Holden said, tipping a little more wine from the bottle into the doctor's glass.
Meaningless term," Cortázar said. "Humans arose inside nature. We're natural. Everything we do is natural. The whole idea that we are different in category is either sentimental or religious. Irrelevant from a scientific perspective.
So if we get to a place that we can all live forever, that's not unnatural? Holden sounded genuinely curious.
Cortázar leaned in toward the prisoner, gesturing with his left hand while he swirled his glass in his right. "The only limits on us are what we can do. It's perfectly natural to seek personal benefit. It's perfectly natural to give advantages to your own offspring and withhold them from others. It's perfectly natural to kill your enemies. That's not even outlier behavior. That's all in the middle of the bell curve all the time.

Portraits of great war leaders or critical battles that looked flattering, well composed, and balanced always felt like propaganda. Tanaka had spent a lot of time in the halls of power. She’d seen many paintings of great men in uniform staring eagle-eyed into the distance where their future glory lay. She’d seen very few paintings of soldiers with only a ragged tent and a dying fire to hold back the cold nights before some stranger tried to bayonet them in the morning.

She was not a political creature. She felt that politics was the second most evil thing humanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk.