Our intellectual capacities are far more due to dealing with the bad, than basking in the good.

Cultures train us to see good and bad as that cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, right and wrong.

Yet the underlaying reality is the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

Often too much of a good thing can have deleterious consequences, as well as the previous stated point that pain is educational. Trial and error.

While it is the function of cultures to synchronize societies, based on the same languages, rules, measures, etc. Decisions have to be made.

The problem now, is the usual solutions of patching the tears in the previous patches is not sufficient to deal with the levels of problems arising. So either our world has to collapse back to a level where that starts to work again, which might be pretty far down, or we can work to better understand how this reality really does function.

As linear, goal seeking organisms in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, it's like we really haven't come to terms with the implications of the world being round, not flat.

The feedback loops need circuit breakers, for one thing, or it all spirals down that vortex in the middle. The Ancients devised debt jubilees as circuit breakers to the feedback loop of compound interest, yet here we are, stuck in the same doom loop, of wealth and power leveraging ever more wealth and power, until it all collapses.

It's time to grow up.