That’s when Adam realizes: Human-kind is deeply ill. The species won't last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will he returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.
But they are young, free, and driven the sole backers of their own
existence. Winter doesn't kill them. Not yet. The blackest despair at
the heart of them gets pressed to diamond. -The Overstory