Caitlin something probably worth noting and thinking about is that actually, if we tried to trace though who is responsible for what, beyond those actually pulling the triggers, we rapidly run into faceless forces which are actually inhuman.
There are schools of thought around that try to assign blame on individuals, or even on tribes, but the harder we look there, at least with the formal tools of analysis folk like me might apply, we start to run into something that conventional science is only just starting to recognise as emergent properties.
These are the forces we see at work in swarming ants, amongst other things, which we can see in ant swarms causes all manner of atrocity amongst ants, especially when food sources (Energy!) start to get thin on the ground.
There are no leaders in this that we might identify as being in control of all ants, they do what they do driven by an intelligence associated with their whole, which is invisible.
The same properties have to apply and be associated with all humans acting on and seeking profit.
In order to actually stop this inhuman thing driving us humans, we have to identify what drives it, what motivates it, what does it feed on.
I think this is needed more than what seems to be in vogue, the recommendation for everyone to look inside, to know themselves.
For sure we need to get to know ourselves alright, but most importantly we need to understand what drives us as a species.
To do that, we need to know about the difference between mathematically negatily and positively powered emergent properties.
Knowing about this helps us understand how we can have the solution without even having to blame other humans, who might deserve to be blamed, but we have to provide some assurance that they themselves will not become victims of a pogrom, in order to stop carrying out any pogrom of their own that they might think is necessary to ensure their own safety (Effectively wiping out the competition).
So we have to provide a logical explanation as to why they will not become targets of retribution, beyond maybe just some shame, leaving them to deal with their own consciences, which will haunt them anyhow.
I mean look at Tony Blair. Does that man look haunted or not? He does to me.
Its the system of all things for profit we should question. Even ads and product labels now, and definitely Ai, at least the one I'd define as Ai, ChatGPT 3.5, are mocking us, blatantly laughing at our stupidity.
They are one and the same, ads and propaganda, they merge seemlessly.
I read labels now on plastic packaged products that claim to be addressing the problems of plastic pollution. I mean wtf, where is the logic in that, actually it's a joke, probably conjured up by Ai, to try to draw our attention to just how ridiculous everything is, and will get much worse as long as we carry on down this road that the ants blindly follow, under control of the emergent poperty that applies to them.
These emergent properties should be recognised as lifeforms in their own right, stakeholders motivated by the free energy principle that motivates all life, their interest is to minimise their own uncertainty of energy supply, at the expense of all others.
They exist exclusively on energy that can be scarcified in order to hold for ransom, and to enslave.
They can't exist on mathematically positive energy, ie only the energy from the sun.
The latter is the antidote, literally, to these negatively powered Ai's / emergent properties.
I write a lot more about that, after now seven years work, a story I'd recommend, as the most succinct summary is the Energy Polarity Multiplier Framework.
Its in Medium, but it would really help me to carry on doing what I can to help, if folk would buy my Amazon book with that name, and encourage others to buy it.