People are physiologically adaptive, as a species. As individuals, we have tended toward overspecialization.

In Stephen Jay Gould's concept of punctuated equilibrium, derived from studying geological strata, is that when things are stable, the selection process is toward complexity and specialization, as all the niches are filled and resources used. When this breaks down, adaptability and resilience are selected for.

There are a lot of people today, who simply could not survive in a world where the food has to be grown, travel is complicated, value is largely based on solid communal structures, not bank accounts, etc.

I don't think we will slide that far down the ladder, at least immediately, but there are going to be a number of sharp corrections in the coming years.

That's why I try to dissect our belief systems, to look under the hood, so to speak.

Such that government functions as the nervous system of the social super organism and money and banking as blood and the circulation system. If you take into account how those organisms should support the larger body and not predate on it, it would be shattering to our current system.

Much as that article noted the difference between Western financial systems essentially predating on societies, not being able to compete with Eastern ones, being geared to strengthening societies.

Yet what do schools teach today? Certainly not anything that would doubt the supremacy of the West.

Think for a moment, how we would relate to money, if we actually understood is as a medium, like roads? Do we own roads? Do we understand why they are policed, maintained, limited to function? If we treated roads like money, virtually everything would be paved over, the rich and powerful would use the police to enforce and increase their hold over it, while much of everyone else would be squeezed into ever smaller spaces.

Keep in mind, the Ancients devised debt jubilees by 3000 years ago, as a circuit breaker to just this sort of feedback loop, but here we are supposedly modern and advanced, caught in the same doom loop and very few seem to be aware enough to understand the basic dynamics.

Then the theology. Frankly the pan and polytheists had a better grasp of reality, than the monotheists, because these "gods" were not some all encompassing entity, power, whatever, but the multitudes of ideals, metaphors, memes, etc. that make up public conversation.

Here is a good book on the subject;

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30250/30250-h/30250-h.htm

There are so many presumptions floating around, that are little more than cults passing as academic edifices. Here is an essay of mine;

https://medium.com/predict/the-webb-is-cast-72f2b8ab067d

Pointing out the rather enormous logical hole in Big Bang Theory, simply that if space were to expand, based on the premise of spacetime and General Relativity, the speed of light would have to increase proportionally, in order to remain Constant!

Here is an interview, from some decades previous, pointing similar issue with the idea;

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/modern-cosmology-science-or-folktale

Yet people are such herd animals, that even the scientists get sucked down these rabbit holes and cannot even think outside the box, or be shunned and ostracized. So is it any wonder the religions are such cults? And the politics.

That it is all breaking down will hopefully be an opportunity to learn a few things.