I am with you on all of this. I am as fascinated as you are. However I think I can answer your question why is everybody not talking about this? It's because everybody is concerned with maintaining their physical bodies and just surviving. I watch the BBC news every night and honestly some nights I just cry. Particularly now they're showing emaciated little babies who have no food in Afghanistan. There are not many women nor people of color involved in this discussion with us either - nor writing about it.

This phenomena, whatever it is clearly doesn't want to come down here and read us the riot act. Because that is clearly what we need right now. I mean couldn't they make Steve Bannon disappear float up to the sky like Baron Harkonnen, or even pick Donald Trump up and then drop him back a changed and shaken up man? How about the leaders of the Taliban and the House of Saud being permanently abducted?

These are the questions I have. I feel Whitley Strieber's angst when he rails about the fact that the positive ones are non-interventionists. What about the supersonic nuclear weapon delivery system the Chinese just launched. If its a sputnik moment then we'll just continue to work on increasing our capacity to kill each other.

I'm not meaning in any way to say this isn't an incredibly fascinating subject of that your article isn't a great one as always. Particularly for those of us who want and have the time to answer the question of who and what we are. However, we're in the minority because first we have to solve the problem of species survival and I believe it will be without their heop. I'll finish with a quote from Nicolas Kristoff in the NYT this am.

In particular, I want to make clear that while I’ve spent my career on the front lines of human suffering and depravity, covering genocide, war, poverty and injustice, I’ve emerged firmly believing that we can make real progress by summoning the political will. We are an amazing species, and we can do better.

In Darfur, it was hard to keep from weeping as I interviewed shellshocked children who had been shot, raped or orphaned. No one could report in Darfur and not smell the evil in the air. Yet alongside the monsters, I invariably found heroes.