This is where we must "start" in the search for "what" is really smart enough to game us all for 1000s of years. The answer is so epically and existentially crisis inducing, that "it" has been able to hide until now, because even considering the truth of "it", makes most of us vomit...
Funnily enough this is my 666th Medium “response”. Hmmmm. It’s a sign?