Maybe it will be an opportunity to really sit back and think through a lot of the bs we currently take for granted.
For instance, logically, 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.
To the Ancients, gods represented the ideas and concepts animating life and thought, like memes.
So there were lots and some were more powerful. Monotheism originally equated to a monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as they represented multiculturalism. The Romans co-opted gnostic Christianity to be the Catholic church as the Empire solidified and remnants of the Republic were being erased. Long story short, when the West went back to less centralized political systems, it required the separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics.
Consider as well that 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. There is no more an ideal good, than there is an ideal yes. When we think in such black and white terms, all the higher order complexity, nuance and subjectivity is lost.
Morality is certainly not an absolute, given how many people seem totally lacking in any. Like character, it's a quality.
Also money is a social contract enabling mass societies to function, not a commodity to mine from them. Markets need money to circulate, while people see it as signal to extract and store. Requiring ever more to be added and ever more metastatic methods of storing what has been extracted. Since the asset is backed by debt, storing the asset requires creating debt. Not only does it create an increasingly frenetic centripetal effect in society, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center and negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges, but the government has been turned into the debtor of last resort. The capital markets could not function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. The wars are just a burn pit, so more can be borrowed.
The reality is that there isn't sufficient investment potential to individually save what we need and turning the financial markets into a casino doesn't solve that, but we do save for many of the same reasons, so the commons will have to be resurrected and updated.
Which means that people have to start recognizing that rights and responsibilities are two sides of the same coin. We all want our rights, it's in our dna and founding documents, but it's responsibility that gets society through the hard times.
People say life has no meaning or purpose, but that's what being responsible gives you.
