Part of the problem is the nature of time.

We are mobile organisms, with a sequential process of perception and that narrative based culture, so we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So while we perceive sequence; yesterday, today, tomorrow, the reality is that causality isn't sequence, but energy exchange/transmutation. The sun shining on this spinning planet creates this effect called days.

Effectively the energy, as process, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Such as consciousness goes past to future, as thoughts go future to past.

Or products go start to finish, while the production line goes the other way, consiuming material and expelling product.

We have the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us on, while the central nervous system sorts through the patterns precipitating out. Motor and steering.

Which tends to bias our minds to focus on the patterns and information, rather than the energy and processes generating them.

Though the information is of the past, while the future is the direction the energy is going.

Consequently we tend to value representations over what they represent. For instance, money over the health of the society on which it is based. Given most money functions as a contract, where the asset is backed by a debt, we have come to believe we are wealthy, even if the promises on which this wealth is based are unsustainable.

The future we have been borrowed against has arrived. Since society has been in complete denial about this, similar to a family using a home loan to go on vacation, it seems surprising we would end up with a bankruptcy skating con artist in control.

Though for those of us following where the energy of society is actually going, in this media and money obsessed culture, it is no surprise at all.

Sometimes the future is more a reaction to the past, than a continuation of it.