Nature’s wilderness is a scary and chaotic place. Nothing can change that. We can build structures and systems, communities and ideologies to survive the chaos, but these are only layers on top of the wilderness. The moment we stop maintaining these strategies, the chaos slowly creeps back in.

We enjoy great success when we create structures and systems just to survive – when we respect the truth and power of the wilderness – but when we try to control and overpower it, we start the countdown to catastrophe. The environment is far too complicated, with too many variables, all slowly changing in separate directions, for any static human structures to remain standing for long.

Just like Nature’s wilderness, the Human wilderness is scary and chaotic, and cannot be controlled. Human behavior is never limited to the individual. Each individual is always a part of countless overlapping ecosystems of innumerable variables and layers of complexity. All of which make up the Human Wilderness.

Politics and economics study this wilderness, and develop theories for building systems and structures. Heretofore, all of our political and economic structures have endeavored to overpower and control this human wilderness with a single perfect system of control. Predictably, the effort has never succeeded for very long. No system has ever respected the truth and power of this wilderness.

This continuous effort to overpower and control has grown and adapted, leading to our current situation where the power elite will try to manage the end of one system of control and usher in the beginning of a new system of control. The difference this time, from my perspective, is that they will try to completely meld politics and economics together into one technological system. For any single system of control to succeed, it is necessary for them to disrupt and destroy any effort by individuals to develop their own means to survive; especially if those individuals pursue balance with their environment and not the system of control.

In the future, after many trials and errors, when humans finally build a society that is balanced and sustainable, the political-economic system will include both; a top down system of control that allows individuals the freedom to explore ideas in their own environments and build up systems to better survive. And when it is time for the obligatory death and rebirth of the global control system, it will simply shift over to what the public already created.

To achieve this an immense hurdle must be surmounted. Not only for the people in charge to allow the public such freedom and learn from them, but also for the public to see that the Human Wilderness will always include a system of control that must be survived in increasingly creative ways. As it would take one system of control to eliminate another system of control,.. and all systems of control fail before too long.

Only when this hurdle is behind us will civilization be able to evolve in a healthy and sustainable direction.