Wealth creates immaturity.
Economic success enables a civilization to become irresponsible.

People don’t see it… that is the nature of wealth.

The environment is harsh, unforgiving, and without master – it requires us to find a balance with and within it. Wealth, however, allows people to create measures of success that they can control.

We create bureaucracies and red-tape that do little but make ourselves feel responsible. (It’s not my fault, I vote and pay taxes.)

We create schools and tests that allow ourselves to appear smart. (I am not wrong… I have a degree.)

These measures slowly evolve further and further away from that one thing that can never be controlled. (The environment.) And when things start to go out of balance…

We create guns and bombs to project blame. (We have to defend want what we have created.)

We create Gods, and perceptions of Gods, split from the psyche of our own group mind, to take responsibility for our behavior. (I am only doing God’s will.)

[Splitting the personality is a common defense against responsibility… and guilt. Nations bomb innocent people abroad, while celebrating freedom, independence, and humanity at home.]

Each single thing we create brings us closer to the inevitable.

Faster and faster, we need new shiny things to keep our focus away from the world around us.

More and more, we need the next clever thing that will save the world. Until we determine that it will not save us. (Is it reason that tells us this… or boredom?)

Not to worry though… 
Christmas is coming and a new solution to all of our problems will be revealed during the halftime of a football game on Thanksgiving day.