from a historical perspective our spiritual development has lagged

behind our material development, and we're paying for that.

if humanity perishes, it will only be because the processof human 

development wasn't harmonious, and because humanity didn't evolve 

spiritually, but was driven by fear. humankind defended itself against 

the world instead of merging with it and establishing a connection with 

it. humans transformed interaction into a painful daily leveraging of 

power against one another that is irritating, useless and excruciating 

instead  of making that exchange something pleasurable. politicians we 

entrusted with planning our future were planning our destruction.

andrei tarkovsky