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Other than saying "i dunno", my first reflex thoughts are to think of the very unimaginative idioms some people say like "the cat is out of the box" or "pandora's box has been opened", in this case referring of our co-evolution with certain technologies or ethics, but i wouldn't settle for that. I think that a complete erasure of the memory of these is not necessary for people to reevaluate them, and their relationship to them, to change their culture/way of life/daily life for the better.

What i'm worried about in this instance is how to make these changes in a way that doesn't pose an opportunity for opportunists with a predatory mindset. I think someone could say something about security culture and safeguards and control, "securitization", but i'm not clear how that critique goes. A staunchly anti-authoritarian culture is necessary so that when increasing everyone's capacity (not a specialized subset) for attack/defense/evasion, it's not in any way channeled into anything resembling an army or a band that wishes to conquer.

I don't know where i read it, (i thought that it was in this article, but i checked and it wasn't, maybe i opened another one from your blog in a new tab, or had many tabs open), but something about robust ecosystems doing well warding off invasive species. I see how once we tend to an are through forest gardening or some other ways, it can eventually become very robust, but meanwhile our efforts at the starting phase are very vulnerable.

I also think how forest fires are worse because of civ, how if the forests were healthier, and well tended to by us, they wouldn't be as bad (haha, this funny random post comes to mind: https://uvb76.blackblogs.org/2018/11/30/gotta-love-idiocy-before-the-mor...)