Is it time to give up?

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8. The true glory of the human brain is its flexibility.

As social animals we are capable of operating from many mental models of reality both rational and irrational, and there is no single direction that is "genetically preordained".

In fact, if you're looking for a single factor that "dooms" the species, you might look to this very flexibility. It gives us the ability to overcome enormous obstacles and thrive in the face of immense adversity - most often by externalizing the cost of our survival onto the rest of the biosphere...