When the problems are so much bigger than we are, perhaps it is better to step back and be as objective as possible, than trying to directly correct, repair and patch the problems. Seek out the causes, if you want to understand the effects.

For one thing, good and bad are not some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, but the basic biiological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

All the higher order social contructs, love, honor, trust, respect, responsibilitty, as well as the negatives, are emergent with the social structures and cultures they define and support. So when good is treated as aspirational, rather than elemental, all that complex social feedback is quickly lost, as conflicts become a race to the bottom, of us versus them. Rather than each side thinking the other will hold to that higher social evolution and potentially use such situations to further evolve.

Which goes to the fallacy of monotheism. Logically a spiritual absolute would be that essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. That awareness driving us on, not the details it comes to define itself through.

The Ancients were not ignorant of monotheism, but as there was no distinction between culture and civics, it equated with monocultural authoritarianism. One people, one ruler, one god.

Democracy and republicanism evolved in pantheistic cultures, as that was their interpretation of the hetergeneous states developing out of tribal cultures. The Romans adopted Christianity to formalize the empire and shed any remnants of republicanism. Leaving monarchy as the default political structure of Europe for the next thousand years.

When the West went back to populist forms of government, it required a separation of church and state, culture and civics.

Though most, if not all the political ideologies seeking to replace this top down order also assume their ideals to be some shade of absolute and universal. Even the current cancel culture tries to assume the inherent contradiction of multiculturalism as a monoculture.

Basically the philosophers failed to question why an ideal, which is aspirational, should be assumed to be an absolute, which is elemental.

The reality is that life is always going to be that dichotomy of desire and judgement. Whether on the personal, or in the public, our hopes seek to push the limits of possibility. Then we develop what works, until it no longer works, leaving some clinging to the old, while others seek out other methods and ways.

It goes to the nature of time. As these mobile organisms, we experience our reality as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, than as cultures, we build up knowledge by telling stories, so we experience time as the present moving past to future, but the reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is conserved, because it is the the present, not some dimensionless point between past and future.

So energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the ripples rise and fall.

As consciousness also goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past, it suggests consciousness is a form of energy, while our thoughts and feelings are the forms it expresses.

So if you want to understand what the future might hold, don't just study the forms, but how they affect and interact with the energies. Often the future is as much a reaction to the past as a continuation of it. Especially when those forms are pushed to the breaking point. More is not always better, so much as the better networked are able to work around the obvious problems, while those seeing through them can better find different approaches.

We have minds because there is no one answer, so we have to constantly navigate this dynamic reality.

I could go on, but this is just trying to say that yes, do what works, but always keep your eyes open.

See as much as possible. Judge as little as possible.

Our limits define us, as our definitions limit us.