A short speculative hypothesis is presented implying that many of the ailments or catastrophes of human society could be due to primordial "gene pool" signaling, or due to gene pool signal degradation, as the growth of human social groups far exceeded the gene pool’s capabilities. Humans are considered as components of gene pools where gene pools have a "distributed intelligence" capable of signaling to all of its individual human components. Gene pools may maintain an ability to influence groups or populations, particularly in times of scarcity or extinction, whereby entire beliefs, cultures, strife, propensity toward violence, and individual and group behaviors are influenced. Beyond a certain "group size," or a rate of component change, this gene pool signaling is degraded or even corrupted perhaps leading to otherwise irrational behaviors like wars, genocide, extreme inequality, or paralysis against long term existential threats like climate change.