I've got news for the author: humans are slightly more clever, slightly less hairy apes, and our feelings have always dominated our logic, what little we have o

I've got news for the author: humans are slightly more clever, slightly less hairy apes, and our feelings have always dominated our logic, what little we have of the latter. You don't have to destroy a generation, because every generation will naturally find various ways to destroy itself. We evolved to be part of small hunter-gatherer groups. Farming, and thus civilization, is surprisingly recent, a mere 10,000 years old or so. Our monkey brains were never prepared to live together in large anonymous cultures. We are the sorcerer's apprentices, except there's no sorcerer. Our leaders are of the same genetic stock and as apelike as the rest of us.