I think you need to peel away the effects a lot more, to get at the causes. The fact is that even our so called masters are really just following their beliefs and whether they see themselves as predators, or saviors, it’s still a function of assuming they know what they are doing and that just isn’t the case, since they are just chasing after bigger baubles. We are goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, reciprocal, feedback driven reality and it shows, but we are reaching the edge of the petri dish.
Here is a short essay I wrote, trying to dig down into the systems we’ve been handed, by our predecessors;
https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0