Ohhh brother !! LOL, yes .... although, and perhaps I am overly romantic about these things, but I don't know if the program is as old as life itself, as you say. I think it's as old as civilization, but there doesn't seem to be any defined line or boundary between and I can see how ritual has been used throughout human culture, even before the people became settled and learned to farm ... and the roots of human culture are deep in the animus, so yeah... but the centralized social power institutions have taken full advantage of the civilized lifestyle to usurp the old intentional consciousness of our oldest ancestors, who knew the value of transmitting consciousness through ritual. Modern centralized social institutions use program dynamics to emotionally and subconsciously manipulate the individual members of our society, very much the way the people who ran Straight, whoever that was, were able to manipulate everyone in group but a very few. Love is the answer. Stop buyin stuff !!!