Thanks for you long reply.

Yes, I agree that the first step in changing the world is by changing yourself (due to my life's path shadow is not my problem, trusting others is) and that the meta-future lies in collectively achieving a higher level of consciousness. Entanglement:) (ps the I Ching teaches balance so gorging yourself in the time of plenty, followed by restraint during winter is fine:) And people (like the Greens!!!! in Germany) pumping the media full of tribal warmongering and shutting down dissent are primates as well as those falling for it for lack of understanding their own fear and shutting out kindness for others.

I am perfectly aware of my wastefulness (after being 25 years vegetarian I now eat meat again because of our one! child. Tried the local farmers market. Also aware of the progress I've made like our zero energy home made of biobased materials, carless and nearly never eat processed foods. And of the progress to come - we bought 4 ha of good land in France for regen agriculture. As an expat child living in Africa, I have experienced life in a small civil war: no doctors, no food in the shops, bombs.

So France is me hedging my options, but I wish I didn't have to. Because as an engineer I know that collaborating and specialisation brings us a far higher standard of living. But I also understand risk, how systems work, get locked-in and how very thin the veil of civilisation really is (yes my trust issue at play here). So yes, change is necessary the only question is how. Deflect in the right direction (gradual change) or crash (setting us back in every aspect at great costs). Perhaps I am naive to want to redefine human progress to better aline within the current system (staying within its own operational logic), as I simply don't see any other viable alternative happening at scale in time. Other than some intentional communities on the fringe - who are, if they are honest, still highly dependent on the main system.