Scott,

The fact is that we are experiencing the terminal stage of an American hubris that probably goes back to the Spanish-American War, if not the Indians wars.

Not that other countries haven’t succumbed to such delusions, but even our delusions are grandiose in size.

The World Wars and the Cold War managed to obscure this, because they were pitted against equally delusional ideologies.

Yet as the saying goes, in crisis, there is opportunity. What lessons can be learned, when the future we’ve borrowed against arrives? Yes, much opportunity has been lost, but eventually even the most hard core believers in the status quo are going to wonder what happened.

Hopefully it will be an opportunity to explain how we were led astray, not just a search for scapegoats. Yes, there are many who deserve criminal prosecution, justly in some of the countries laid to waste, but the real problems and the scale of the delusions are not going to allow room for that.

I think it simply has to go to the very bottom. That humanity’s goal oriented culture has to surrender to nature’s circularity.

Our Gods are not going to save us and when Armageddon has come and gone, those left will know that we brought this on ourselves. No matter how large our ego, the downside is always waiting. The ups and downs balance out, because without the ups and downs, it’s a flatline anyway.