How deeply baked into the cake is the way we do business, how many different kind of strings do you have to pull to change something? Is the money printing ethos built into they way we use pronouns in our culture, where the verb typically occurs in our sentences? How deeply do we need to dig in to get beyond the symptoms of a problem down to the cause?
It is always the unexamined assumptions that get you in the end. It is the thing that you worried about the least that becomes the biggest problem. The whole concept of the three "E's" is a doorway into a much bigger and more interesting world. It will finally allow us to deal with the problem of unintended consequences, it is the bridge from individualistic, mechanistic, self destructive thought patterns to ecological or holistic thinking that will take us down a path towards healing.
Supper weeds are showing up in our industrial farm fields that are immune to our usual batches of herbicides. Super bugs are showing up in our bodies that are immune to our usual batch of biocides (antibiotics). What is the "mainstream" response, or what I would call pseudo scientific response to these problems? Money printing, more toxicity. Someone with a lab coat and safety glasses shows up and throws a few Latin words around and we bow in worship. The Latin mass is back in play at our new alter. The true scientific thought process has atrophied. It is the pseudo science of death, materialism and its object of worship is personal power. Yet when we see these things expressed (death) in the art and fashion of our culture we seem baffled. The principal of the three E's is everywhere and in everything. Call it fractals if you like.
True science, that follows the scientific process wherever it leads, is taking us in another direction. It is telling us that the world is not a machine, but a conscious living being. Newtonian physics has been dead for half a century yet we still believe and act as if life as a machine. It is scientifically proven that our simple act of observation changes the world we observe, yet we are still dead to the world. But it is not the world that is dead, it is us. Bacteria "learn" form one another, those that live through antibiotic exposure pass that ability on to those that they meet. Antibiotic resistant genes reside in transmissible plasmids, facilitating their transfer. The rigidity of DNA and RNA that was supposed to make GMO 's safe for release into the world turned out to be false. The world is awake and evolving in response to our insanity.
C diff, the latest creation of our culture of death is a distortion of our internal ecosystems. What is the cure? Fecal transplants. Yes our sh#t is going to save us. Reintegrating livestock into agriculture, energy into economics, people into the environment, our hearts into our minds. Our minds can only break things into smaller and smaller pieces (as useful as that may be), we need our hearts to put things back together again. There is no unified field theory in the sense that we are pursuing it. There is no one and done. There is no one size fits all. The more the rational mind tries grasp and control the world, the more things slip through our fingers. Mechanization freezes yesterdays understanding ad infinitum into solving tomorrows problems. It physically manifests the idea of the moment and holds it there for ever. The idea of the machine that learns is the ugliest lie of all. Cold evil, which is the process of limited awareness trying to do good but creates evil in its place. It is the problem of the part trying to become the whole.
Financial charts are fine, but is seems they are always self referential within the already abstracted system. They lack the intimacy that would allow them to speak the truth. How about charts that related economic growth to the percent of copper in the ores mined, the biological health of our hay meadows, ecological diversity and health of our fisheries, energy per capita consumed per household, or parameters related to the health of people within what ever segment is being analyzed.
Human beings are the only things that can evolve with the world around us. It is that intimate awareness of those things around us the allow positive change to happen. Consciousness heals. Why else do we call love intimacy? When we use our minds and our machines to keep things at arms length, everything falls apart. In our culture we have the SVO (subject verb object) structure to our language. We ourselves are primary, what we are doing is a close second, the thing we are acting upon is a distant third. In other cultures sentences are structured SOV, and the S (subject) is often omitted. The object stands at the front of the sentence. The other is embraced as the primary interest. Intimacy is built into the language. In that same culture children call their friends parents mom and dad, and a woman speaking to a friend about her husband will use the pronoun "our". As the center of the world shifts from the Atlantic to Pacific, from a physically smaller body of water to a larger one will we move in the opposite direction emotionally? As things appear to be falling apart are we starting to heal at a deeper level? Something is definitely afoot.