[How did we get this way?

It started with the first singularity.

Humans adopted a new way of talking, speech alone talk, leaving behind the referential world of hand speech talk.

Speech alone talk allows us to create purely symbolic orders_3a, specialized languages_3a, thought experiments_3a and mirrors of the world_3a, whose unintended consequences (law^essential) can be ignored, and therefore must be ignored, by the elites who benefit from the ‘something_2a’ that emerges and situates the possibilities inherent in me_1a.]