Results of my very very long "Top 5 Books for Teens" thread

[NoOneMan]

37. There always must be an idealogical excuse as to why the system of the day is failing

And there is always some idealogical roadmap to a utopia that can never come. Now the excuses are about the "bankers" and the "greed" that spoiled it for everyone, though it has always been spoiled to some degree for the masses during the last few thousand years. Nevermind that.

These stories we look at are part of how we organize and perceive reality--they are all part of our overall cultural story. This story may not reflect reality and it may not be relevant to how we must perceive the future to survive. This current story may be on the brink of destruction by means now beyond man's grasp.

Maybe the real reason things fall apart is simply due to the laws of physics, rather than the laws of men. Maybe mankind has problems with fuelling exponential growth and increasing complexity (which requires and exponential amount of finite resources), and dealing with its consequences like ecosystem destruction. Maybe this is really the bottom line, and things such as feudalism, mercantilism, capitalism, fascism, socialism, etc have constantly obscured these very basic truths by suggesting we just try it again in a different way.

We are ten thousands years into a rabbit hole of evolving stories that explain our failures and how we can finally fix an increasingly complicated mess that spun out of control before most of us can even conceive; coming to grips with this idea may be beyond the capability of people still using a cultural lens to organize reality.