Consider some of these issues go back thousands of years.

Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. When good is assumed to be aspirational, rather than elemental, all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is lost in the race to the bottom, of us versus them.

A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images on it.

When we assume ideals as absolutes, it becomes a battle of all against all.

Time is not the point of the present, moving past to future we experience as mobile organisms navigating our world, but change turning future to past.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is conserved, because it is the present, it creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, as the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form go future to past. Though it is the gut and heart processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the nervous system sorts the information. Referees the emotions.

Money is the social contract enabling society, not a commodity to mine from it. It is a public utility, like roads. People are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, so while markets need it to circulate, people see it as signal to extract and store. Contrary to Econ 101, medium and store are not the same. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store.

As a contract, storing the asset requires debt to back it, so our illusions of wealth are backed by debt that will never be paid back. Much of which was spent blowing up other countries.

I could go on, but these are the sorts of issues we really need to dig into, if we ever want to figure out what's going on.