Determinism

Deterministic paralysis - our inability to make a better basic life for ourselves. It isn't for lack of genius we're stuck, it's because we're...afraid. We owe our present paralysis (in part) to the _philosophy_ behind social evolutionary theory.

"The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future. Evolution has produced the snail and the owl; evolution can produce a workman who wants no more space than a snail, and no more light than an owl. The employer need not mind sending a Kaffir to work underground; he will soon become an underground animal, like a mole. He need not mind sending a diver to hold his breath in the deep seas; he will soon be a deep-sea animal. Men need not trouble to alter conditions, CONDITIONS WILL SOON ALTER MEN. The head can be beaten small enough to fit the hat. Do not knock the fetters off the slave; knock the slave until he forgets the fetters."

-G.K. Chesterton (_What's Wrong with the World_).

Damnation, it's time to alter conditions and cease being double-minded doubting human dastards, mere products/outcomes. We're not products - we're CREATORS (sub-creators, works of art).