The shadow side of our creativity.

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For all the benefits capitalism can bring ,in moderation, left unchecked it breeds impatience. selfishness, short sightedness and increasing dissatisfaction. It encourages us to want more, now, for ourselves and creates wants that go way beyond needs.

We have become an Ourobouros. A legendary symbol of a snake eating its own tail.

Somewhere along the way, our ability with science has given us the to think we can improve on Nature, as though Nature is somehow static and passive. In our generation, the stunning arrogance of that assumption is becoming plain to see.

"If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what …