A Quiz for the Redeemer

If you want to save
Humans from human
Cultures, languages,

All technologies,
Then simplify them.
These chattering apes,

These weeping bipeds,
Don’t threaten themselves
So much in small groups,

Since wind-blown firestorms
Of technology
Can’t collect themselves.

Humans are songbirds
Like that—their music
Won’t complexify

In populations
Too small, fragmented,
Undiversified.

Of course, your questions
Then include—do you
Really want the end

Of their cultural
Accelerations
That lead to great things

As well as great wars,
That feed on themselves?
Do you really want

Lost technologies,
Dead literatures,
Only the folktales?

And if you suppress
All this by crumbling
Humans to pieces,

Can you be certain
They won’t join back up
And combust again?

How many outbursts
Before they burn you?
Also—who are you?