You're welcome.

Here is an essay where I tried getting a bit further into some of these ideas;

https://medium.com/predict/peeling-the-paradigm-1ceab7e774b0

I grew up on a farm, around more animals than people, so I've managed to maintain a little objectivity about our particular culture.

which considering that it's in the process of melting down, is hopefully useful.

I wouldn't say we are miniscule and powerless, but that it's easy to project out beyond the degree of our own control. Which is useful for objectivity about what we do control, but when taken to extremes does create more negative feedback.

There are two sides to every coin.