Family of Weasels

On last night's news I heard of an engineer named K_____ who invented the microchip and changed our lives. How the chip now contains a billion circuits which I still don't get but what I do perceive is this engineer's (a man modest in pride, fame and wealth) achievement of Teilhard de Chardin's vision of a world that is one organism and a single- minded mankind. Also mentioned were Edison, the Wrights and Ford, oddly not Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Hamilton or Jefferson, Christ or Buddha, or the unknown gatherers and traders who invented agriculture, money. 8,000 generations and each individual an experiment gone well or wrong, a chance to respond with love or grief to the universe's effort to extinguish us. Family of weasels, young ones playful. One reference says they're vicious murderers, killing for sport. Absurd, I think, in the wild. Another clarifies they eat ½ their body weight daily, extremely active, high metabolism, hunt all their caloric needs before eating. And, like the raccoon, ferocious defenders of their young.