While you don't seem responsive to comments, I'll offer up two points to address both issues;

Our concept of time is backward. As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between our body and its environment manifests as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate. Consequently our experience of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration and correlates it with measures of distance, to create the geometric construct of spacetime.

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, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

So the energy, as present, goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

As consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise.

Consequently the focus on information overlooks the underlaying dynamic. Basically the information is shadows in the cave. An effect of the light.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in.

As for our current social meltdown, the problem is that while government, as executive and regulatory function, is the central nervous system of the community, money and banking serve as blood and the circulation system. So while humanity has finally come to accept government works best as a public utility, it has yet to appreciate the same of banking. Which has given banking the upper hand, as they are not as subject to oversight and dealing with election cycles. Consequently, rather than effectively circulating value around the community, to where it is most beneficial to the entire society, it has instead taken to skimming off as much as possible. Leaving everyone else to fight over the scraps and hollowing out government, leaving only those compliant with its interests.

The consequence is that as government is the decision making function, banking is about serving appetites. So the dynamic has all the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish.

An economic Ebola virus.