Our culture is patches over the tears in the previous patches, going back to the dawn of history.

What we really need to do, is step back and look at the situation more objectively.

For one thing, bacteria also operate on an infinite growth formula. The problem is when they reach the edge of the petri dish.

Yes, we are reaching the edge of the global petri dish, but the advantage of multicellular organisms is being able to sense and navigate their situation.

To the extent societies function as super organisms, they develop systems of governance as a nervous system. The executive and regulatory functions.

They also develop mediums of exchange and circulation systems to effectively allocate resources around the system. Aka, money and banking.

As cells in this body, people tend to resent the control of governments, while fawning over the potential of money. Which tends to give the banks more power.

While we have come to see government works best as a public utility, it has yet to dawn on humanity that banking has to be as well. The banks are having their, "Let them eat cake moment."

The feedback loops of wealth and power leveraging ever more wealth and power have no circuit breakers. Even the Ancients had the sense to create debt jubilees as a circuit breaker to the feedback loop of compound interest, but here we are, stuck in the same doom loop.

There are quite a few other fallacies built into the culture. For example, keep in mind that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures.

The fallacy of monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes. Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every culture are ideals.

The universal, on the other hand, is the elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Our technology has evolved much faster than our sociology. There are many lessons left to be learned.