“Whatever intelligence may be, we will rarely see its traces in the streams of popular concern, reactivity and communication. This is because the contexts in which our ordinary activities take place are so thoroughly and multiply compromised that they would not survive its emergence. Realizing this, we must turn from the streams of common and popular concern, which fragment our humanity, and establish contexts in which intelligence is not only valued, but is the imperative. This can happen in every domain and aspect of our lives, but only if we establish such contexts, together, with and for each other and the history and future of life on our world.”

— an anonymous informant