How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.