Truth of the Divine (Noumena, #2)

by Lindsay Ellis

The way the Superorganism would see human civilization—bellicose, competitive, consumptive, dangerous, xenophobic—wasn’t irrational, it was an accurate assessment. It wasn’t just that humanity had built a civilization whose inertia toward its own self-destruction was too strong for it to change. This was a civilization that, in the face of adversity, turned on itself, devoured itself, ate its most vulnerable. Flesh-eaters, pugilists, militarists. This was a civilization that did not deserve to be saved.