Birth control is not an example of genes being our enemy, it is an example of us being our genes' enemy. And "us" is not really the right way to characterize t

Birth control is not an example of genes being our enemy, it is an example of us being our genes' enemy. And "us" is not really the right way to characterize this because our genes are part of "us". It is more like "the part of us that sees value in technological civilization in its own right" vs "the part of us that sees value in being the biological creatures we call humans". The fact that these concepts don't have names is one indication of just how far off the radar this idea is.