Here is another quote of yours from one of those articles:
The plight of having godlike control over other species is already ours. Knowledge and technology already corrupt us in countless ways, and if we keep ignoring our anomalousness, we’ll shirk our responsibility and flame out as only minor gods in the pantheon of possible rebels against nature’s mindless physicality.
So we're not minor gods because our life spans are too short. Control over nature is irrelevant if we can't fix that.
For instance the reason you and I can't have any kind of reasonable discourse is because our very short life span level of maturity prevents it.