Consider that government, as executive and regulatory function, is somewhat analogous to the body's central nervous system. While money and banking are somewhat analogous to blood and the circulation system.

Yet people didn't plan that, it just evolved naturally. Just as organisms, we evolved a central nervous system to sense our environment and ourselves in the environment, as governments deal with internal and external politics. As well developing a way to effectively circulate value around the community, as blood circulates resources around the body.

So what ways do we further evolve? What patterns are we ignorant of, but still drive us?

Currently we have this narrative culture, where the stories with the most impressive punch line get retold the most, so we insinctively assume it is all about the ends and the means is just a way to get there.

We have reached the edge of the petri dish and we will stumble and fall. We might even do it several time, before realizing this reality isn't a linear narrative, but more thermodynamic feedback loops. So eventually we will come to realize that just pushing up enormous waves only means they will crash that much harder, not that it will get us to some promised land. Then we come to terms with the fact this is our one and only home.

Maybe we will have trashed large parts of it, but my experience is that not only is nature fairly resilient, but she is extremely patient. What really is ten thousand years to the planet?

I think that barring something much larger than us, say a moon sized astroid, that life on this planet is inexorably evolving towards being more of a singular organism, with humanity as the central nervous system.

We won't be able to do this if we are still greedy and corrupt. A corrupt society is like a sick individual. If it doesn't get better, it dies and something healthier takes its place.

Just as the function of the nervous system is to protect and sustain the larger body, we will be healthy when we understand it is our function to store value in a healthy environment, not as notes in a financial system, that mostly end up as casino chips, where there are more than necessary.

Consider that as women become more educated, they resist just being baby machines and put more attention into fewer kids.

There are lots of disasters heading our way, but possibly a financial implosion will divert the military industrial complex from having the nuclear wars it wants.

This pandemic is certainly giving lots of people time to think about what they are doing with their lives and what other people are doing. Slowing the economy means less resources being used.

So there is always good in the bad and bad in the good. Good and bad are like yes and no. Just binary effects. What is good for the fox, is bad for the chicken. There is no perfect state, just lots of ups and downs. Otherwise it's a flatline.