"we can ascribe cause and intent to many things like this ... but i believe they are effects, not cause ... they are the effect of the collective consciousness, the aggregate of all of our individual consciousness levels, acted out in the space of our becoming ... the whack-a-mole nature of fixing these problems has no hope of any kind of permanent change, the collective mindset itself has to be evolved ... one by one through the centuries, is how that happens." - Gregory Lent