One of the wonderful things the "Agricultural Revolution" brought us is that people started to have kids specifically so they could have indentured workers to help them work on the farm. When we started farming animals, we started farming humans too. Humans started to be seen as property. As a result, we learned all the obscene things that go with seeing humans as property: how to control, how to manipulate, how to cheat, how to coerce. How to brutalize. How to break each other. We never needed to break each other before. Sure, we sometimes fought, but we never needed to be so systematic and cold about it.

We had to learn how to turn off your conscience so you can do the things necessary to maximize the exploitation and therefore your profit and power. You can see examples of this in the way anyone, and I mean anyone with more power treats people with less power. Workplaces are an obvious example, but it happens globally at all scales. Anywhere 2 or more people gather you'll see this. You can see it in all the smug armchair warriors on reddit who respond to heartfelt compassion with nitpicking smug arrogance. People irreversibly hardened toward each other, toward their children, toward nature.

The maiming of anything that might have been vital and good in human existence happened long ago. We became irreparably broken. We can never go back.

Nature does this shit too, with parasites and diseases and so forth. But its never as efficient and brutal as what mankind can do. Our brutality is focused, intentional and relentless.

And all this misery and alienation is in service of nothing, absolutely fucking nothing.

Learning how to wait is a valuable skill.