What if the problem isn't so much science as philosophy?

We have studied the details pretty well, but looking at the world today, it's the big picture that hasn't evolved much.

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality.

Basically we are flat earthers living on a round planet.

Is time the point of the present moving past to future, that we experience as mobile organisms with a sequential process of perception, or is it change turning future to past? Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

How about God? The logical flaw in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes. Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the center of every society 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 nd judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through and animating the film, than the stories playing out on it.

As it is, we have an entire culture where everyone thinks their beliefs must be carved in stone. So it is all against all.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed if it were. Like temperature below absolute zero.

Morals are the ideals that enable a healthy society. Such as one's status and value a function of what one adds, not what one extracts. Is it any wonder our culture is increasingly necrotic?

How about money? As these linear, goal oriented creatures, we see money as signal to extract and store, while markets need it to circulate, given the world is round. So Econ 101 calls money both medium of exchange and store of value. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Try mixing them up and see how long you live.

While we might think of it as a commodity to mine from the economy, like we mine gold from the ground, or bitcoin from computers, it functions as a social contract. Think community tokens. So to store the asset side of the ledger, there has to be a debt to back it. Consequently our culture runs up enormous debts to create the illusion of near infinite wealth. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth."The real money is in bonds."

Roads are a medium. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over and we would be fighting over our little plots of pavement.

Given the military is the only public works project this country can wrap its mind around, we don't need better technology, because that just means more destructive weapons. We need a better sense of social functionality.

The mother of all reality checks is in the mail.