What if the problems can't be patched over this time?

Maybe we should start to examine the causes. Our beliefs. The software driving society.

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules, like the religion.

Rome adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.

Monotheism provided the eschatological basis for the next 1500+ years of monarchy. When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The logical flaw in monotheism is that ideals are not absolutes.

Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The creed, code, heroes, narratives at the core of every society are ideals. The center of gravity, without which they would break apart. Tower of Babel.

The universal, on the other hand, is the essential and elemental. So a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through and animating the film, rather than the narratives played out on it.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience. So while culture is the stories we tell children, nature is an enormous computer, that doesn't always give us the answers we want to hear.

The consequence of viewing morality as absolute, rather than ideals of a functional society, is that as fear of God died, there was no other organic code to replace it, so the Will to Power, might is right, rose to fill the void.

The long version;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/why-culture-is-not-reality-7cb4f0867a4d

I've been blocked on Substack for this;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/gods-problems-cdab66ed5f04