Despite their enormous size and domination, the dinosaurs were booted out. Humans with their great brains may meet a similar fate. Perhaps, our successor will be a virus or a microorganism. It is their turn anyway.

The phenomenon of iterative evolution or the repeated evolution of a species from the same ancestor at different times may be the plan on a larger scale [for mankind], especially after a global purge.

The awakening of machines will be similar to that of Man, only quicker. Humans, by comparison, are characterized and limited by their slow biological evolution, late realizations, and easy distractibility. Man is too rich and blessed to compete against the single-minded dedication of the binary brain.

The classic flood-story allegory may be for real, and not in the past but in the near future. The coming pestilence and ruin is the flood that threatens to engulf humanity, and the arc is the rocket ship, under the leadership of the visionary.

Man can bluff all he wants, and the Cosmos can condescend all it wants, but the overcoming of the self-preservation instinct is truly a remarkable feat of achievement that gilds mankind.

Perhaps, there will be a day when mankind’s proficiencies will see it on another planet altogether, transforming itself into the mystical Anunnaki, and engineering a slave species for itself.