Joseph, your treatise is compelling while many premises remain troubling, I can not help but believe your over arcing conclusion that a systemic issue abides over the subject of the “body politic”. That system, as you state, includes self conflated with external environs defined in infinite categories while never the less outside the power and authority of the self.

Since the beginning of written time the self and his or her external environment have been in a state of wrangling. This is an axiomatic truth. What sets into motion your argument is the premise [ for which I wrangle with]that today we have for the first time a new external atmospheric dynamic which combined with the universal human dynamic emanating from our cerebral domain has created incremental conundrums. I say simply not true. What we do have that separates us from our forefathers is human created innovations that have attempted to mitigate the natural state of being and paradoxically after time has elevated the wrangling proposition into a classic human condition of over reach equaling exponential problems producing order of one than two and ultimately three and four times the original conundrum. The human brain in spite of its wunderkind early intentions still remains substantially in the hunter-gather mode.

Thank you for listening and good luck with your work. You are in the right place at the right time echoing a message consistent with both a genuine spirit and vigorous intellect.

Eric