My sense, from a lifetime of trying to figure out the why's and wherefores, is that once you get to cause, it is effect of some prior cause and becomes turtles all the way down.

So then it was a process of digging down into the dynamics driving it, the "physics."

What I find, is that after thousands of years of just patching the tears in the previous patches, this culture we call Western Civ has a mental attic full of cobwebs in need of clearing.

Here is a fairly short essay, trying to dig into and connect some of the issues;

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/a-stroll-past-the-overton-window-14796a3cfc4e