This as your articles always are is excellent. Civilization is very fragile in the face of the larger forces of nature. You are right, males are creating a short-term version of dystopian hell around the globe for many humans. As Octavia Butler said “In every generation, there are men who would happily lay waste to 3⁄4 of their country if they could rule the remaining 1⁄4. They are vile. They are sociopaths with a taste for great power."

The devolution of the human species is taking us to a very dark place. There will be many hundreds of years of a dystopian future before we finally go extinct. But it's inevitable just like the dinosaurs before us.

I am finding great solace in reading Rachel Carson these days. There is comfort in understanding the much greater forces of nature which surround us. Forces which have been evolving and sustaining for billions of years.

I would recommend that everyone read the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. She may have our future just about right. It's interesting that she just couldn't finish the last book in her trilogy. She couldn't figure out even if human beings left their planet and went to another one, how they could manage to live together democratically.

I'm afraid I think that your hopes for democracy are fighting a losing battle against human biology. We are really some kind of strange chimera which is out of tune with its planet and with universal consciousness.