Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs, which makes me very suspicious of it. It’s misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.