I still find it unfortunate that such a prescient and visionary writer on humanity never gets the level of attention that Toni Morrison gets, despite posing questions just as important as those posed by Morrison’s works, and while bearing witness just as poignantly, if not in the same literary way.  So, there is an idea that has been bothering me ever since I first read Dawn, the first book in Octavia Butler’s Imago trilogy.     (Oops, I mean in the Xenogenesis trilogy…) She claimed, via the protagonist, sorry, not  Olamina, from the Parable books, but from yet another extremely well portrayed female protagonist’s (Lilith?) discussion with one of the aliens who rescued Earth in order to combine themselves with Humanity to form a new species, basically that our hierarchical nature, and one other thing, I believe it was our propensity toward violence, were essentially a deadly…