We kill that which we do not understand...and then promptly tea-bag it.
It's been so long that Apes now run the UNSC and the Gravemind finally came out of the closet (all of that melodramtic talk, Iambic Pentameter, and obsessing over MC was a little too obvious). BTW I have nothing against -blam!- people, only mutant Venus-fly traps that apparently have daddy issues.