As I was preparing my lunch I heard a familiar annoyance-inducing buzz come from the window in my kitchen. A fly desperately trying to escape, bashed against the pane again and again. Overwhelmed by my inability to ignore the irritation, all I wanted to do was to smash it against that glass so that the noise would stop. In simultaneous strokes of insight and irony, I realized that I had entered into the middle of both a blatant and underlying cycle of window bashing- the cycle of acting the same and expecting different outcomes. While the unproductive pattern of the fly was self-explanatory, the internal dynamic that occurred between the fly and myself raised a seemingly invisible red flag. Although my potential actions were triggered by a fight or flight stimulus and the extent of the damage I could cause would be limited by personal skill and force, in times when individuals have access to both knowledge and power beyond their otherwise limited means, the damage of one’s personal instinct can produce a catalytic cycle that would inevitably harm its initiator...