@Tamtam @lifewithtrees @pathfinder @autistics I respect your optimism and also disagree with it. Human nature seems to be to repeat the mistakes of the past when we either forget or believe that we are somehow exceptional in ways that the lessons of the past no longer apply.

There are too few of us, and we are all different and sparse, that I strongly doubt that we NDs can create and foment such an idyllic culture, standalone or otherwise. History supports this.

I say this because I don't see our species as substantially more intelligent, in some ways, than others. The vast majority, including even us, often function from the older parts of our brains. Those parts consume less energy. And conserving energy, when possible, is a behavior of life.

That said, it is one of our peculiarities that we hyperfixate, and, so, fail to conserve, that causes us to appear uncanny.