<![CDATA[We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wonderous civilization.]]>We were a bunch of primates who had gotten together and, against all odds, built a wonderous civilization. But paradoxically—tragically—our creation's complexity had now far outstripped our brains' ability to manage it.
Put simply: Our situation was fucked, and we weren't doing enough to un-fuck it.
– Blake Crouch, _Upgrade: A Novel_

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Largely, but by no means exclusively, the ones who benefit from things being fucked.

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Actually, some of the primates are actively and intentionally impeding the unfucking.

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It is worse than that. Monkey brainz apparently require that we build systems much more complex than are actually required because monkey brainz think that is a good thing to do.

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