Yeah, honestly, I wasn't entirely constructive and that was wrong.
I was irritated by your "...we are now a species that can't even figure out what to eat for ourselves...". It is certainly only my interpretation, but your comment wasn't unlike CNN headline blowing out of proportion another piece of trite consumer business.
Btw, no "we" (as in HN community) can't do better than that, as evidenced by multiples of such posts and comments.
We can do better than that here.