Early human innovation was incredibly slow, and looks more evolutionary than innovative. Traditions were kept up for thousands of years. Progress itself was invented, and not all once (perhaps we're still improving the concept).

Then there's this:

> We create so much noise that everyone in our world is freaked out enough to work on it.

That's paradoxical. Should we freak out or not? It seems to say that we can relax and stop freaking out, because we're freaking out, so everything's OK.