I think we need to go much further into the process than narrative can provide. After ten thousand years+ of, 'Go forth and multiply,' we've reached the edge of the global petri dish and now our linear, goal oriented, narratively contructed vision has to give way to a more cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback driven one.

For instance, time itself is not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, that we experience as mobile organisms, with our sentience coalescing as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, but change turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

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, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, 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's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information. Signals from the noise.

Consequently we tend to think of reality in terms of order and chaos, rather than energy and form.

Energy is essentially centrifugal, radiating out. While form tends to be centripetal, coalescing back to equilibrium. One harmonizes, the other synchronizes.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in.

Politics tends to be centripetal, as it tries to synchronize everyone into a larger communal organism. While economics tends to be centrifugal, as all the players and entities seek out opportunties and resources.

When one or the other prevails, the larger dynamic of society breaks down. Either the totalitarianism of too much top down control, or the anarchy of everyone cannibalizing any and all systems for their resources.

I could go on, but the basic message is that we have a ways to go, before we even start to sort out the processes going on. Unless we understand the is, it's fruitless to propose any ought.