Agreed, agreed! I really do think we are very similar, in a general regard, collectively, to most all the other (probably all) natural systems we have discovered here on our planet. There's to much commonality to ignore. With all that said, yes there seems to be a driving, "hidden," unconsciously consciously force behind how things come about on the macro-civilization level. Also, only recently have we had the population and technology to observe such phenomena :).