That's well said. Certainly, there's a cultural component to the idea of progress. What I'm doing in this article is explaining my humanistic talk of the anomaly of personhood. My question, then, would be whether one way of life is more authentically human than another. Certainly, the hunter-gatherer way of life lasted much longer than civilization, but was that former lifestyle more stable because it was animalistic? Did those early humans stay native (i.e. animalistic in settling for homeostasis), shirking their creative, Luciferian potential? And is the most authentic human society doomed to self-destruction because, as you suggest, we're tragically flawed in lacking collective brakes?

I'm not sure what you mean by "intent." I'm talking about the psychology of personhood (self-consciousness, intelligence, autonomy, imagination, etc.), and whether it's virtually supernatural, as in anti-natural in its behavioural applications.