I think we really do have to sweep away some of the basic fallacies, before we can logically begin to explore how the deeper processes work.

For one thing, the issue of time goes to free will and determinism, as the process of determination can only occur as the present and yet a will free of cause would be equally free of effect and the entire premise of will is to affect. We are a small part of nature's process of selection. Whether conscious formulation, or primal instincts bubbling to the surface, we are an actor in the process.

Than there is the issue of morality and ethics, as presumed to be about discerning good from bad. Yet good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. A supreme good would be about as meaningless as a supreme up, or yes.

All our higher order organic, social and cultural constructs; love, honor, trust, respect, responsibility, etc, are compex evolutions of this dynamic, like a computer program is based on binary code. So thinking we can understand and further evolve our situation, based on projecting our own desires and ideals, is like assuming we can learn computer programming by playing video games.

Given that reality is that interplay between the energies driving us, versus the forms which emerge and direct further actions, manifest as the gut and heart, versus the head, society has evolved similar functions, with government as a form of central nervous system, regulating and directing the social organism, while banking and money function analogous to the artieries and blood, transmitting value around the social organism, we might better be able to fix the increasingly evident flaws in their current manifestations, if we did appreciate the basic dynamics.

For instance, the military industrial complex has come to resemble a form of autoimmune disorder.

So if we are to grow beyond this point, there is quite a bit of cleaning up and clearing out current messes.