The belief in free destiny produced achievements whose unintended consequences now threaten our future

Evidence

It may be said that this is a discouraging view of human behavior and that we shall be more likely to do something about the future if we continue to believe that our destiny is in our hands. That belief has survived for many centuries and has led to remarkable achievements, but the achievements were only the immediate consequences of what was done. We now know that other consequences have followed and that they are threatening our future. What we have done with our destiny may not be a testament we wish to leave to the world. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1209

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The zenith of past achievements often marks the start of decline we cannot see — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1552