A a feature of the modern age is that some men have convinced themselves that mankind is in control of our destiny. Whether one believes in a divine providence or not, the power of nature is so overwhelming greater than the powers of mankind that this is nothing more than pure hubris. Pascal once commented to it took but a grain of sand in his bladder to reduce Cromwell, the greatest man in Europe at that time, to nothing.
Thank you for this post. I agree with you 100%. It is pure hubris; the same sort of hubris we see everywhere else on the left. They believe we can ignore basic human nature just as they believe we control the world around us.