What if there is no way forward?

Then we would have to either just fight it out and anyone left standing starts over, or we could go back and try to figure out how we ended up here.

Yet to do that would mean looking objectively at all the assumptions and beliefs driving that vast majority of people.

Consider God; To the Ancients, gods were what we would call metaphors, ideals, memes today. Those group concepts that enabled people to communicate.

Gods of war, love, beauty, honor, power, seas, sun, cities, etc. In this context monotheism equated with a monoculture. One people, one rule, one god. Politically it tended to be a form of autocracy, or monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Ancient Israel was a monarchy.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The many ideas and ideals interacting.

The origins of the Christian Trinity went back to fertility rites. The young god born in the spring to the old sky and the earth mother. Though by the age of the Olympians, Zeus didn't give way to Dionysus. Tradition prevailed over renewal. The old didn't give way to the young. Which provided fertile ground for the story of Jesus, crucified for questioning authority and risen in the spring.

Though by the time Constantine adopted it as the state religion of Rome, it too had started to calcify, so the monotheism served to validate the Empire and the origins of the Trinity were shrouded by the Holy Ghost.

The Catholic Church served as the eschatological basis for European monarchy.

When the West went back to democracy and republicanism, it required separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The problem with the modern concept of monotheism, the "all-knowing absolute," in the words of Pope John Paul 2, is that ideals are not absolutes. Truth beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The core codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the gravitational center of every culture are ideals. Without which they would break apart and be scattered to the winds. tower of Babel.

Yet the universal is the 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 the film, than the stories playing out on it.

Morality is not absolute, as it couldn't be transgressed, if it were. Like temperature below absolute zero. Morals are the codes, creeds, ideals that enable a healthy society.

That cultural core is very powerful anyway. it creates a centripetal dynamic, a feedback loop, that lacking contextual circuit breakers, spirals into the vortex in the center, as all varieties of religious fanaticism are evidence.

So when everyone claims their version of God is the only true God and all others are false, one ends up with the world we have today.