The system we refer to as humanity is regarded as a pathogen, at present.
I think it's time to explain how we drifted to the point where we regard humanity as we would normally regard an ant's nest in the garden, i.e. a pest . Humanity has grown too big and behaved so autonomously that it is now time to regard humanity as a pathogen. My friend, Nobody, often complains about the badness of "Institutions" as if Institutions were somehow divorced from us, i.e. the swathe of humanity comprising them.
My thinking is stimulated by work by Thomas Robert Malthus. Without any means of intimate and precise surveillance of activities and events. It has become impossible to govern. World governments have found that it is impossible to govern without regard to the whole system we refer to as humanity.
And humanity's present struggle is at the bottom of all the present struggles. So we (as only individuals can) are simultaneously seeking two goals (that has led to all the mass Cognitive Dissonance .) The effort is to convince each individual to ignore its immediate interests and then to act in the community's best interest as if the whole colony depends on them, and that's how things are.
