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    Thank you for the excellent overview article.
    I think the expression "Dream" says it all.
    We have all been dreaming, and the "American Dream" together with Hollywood's "life interpretations" has been the pinnacle of this illusion.
    It beautifully puts into an almost real, tangible 3D form the heroic human being, that is fully free and independent, that can do anything he wants, can conquer the world, the Universe and expands, marches on infinitely regardless of available natural and human resources.
    But unfortunately this dream has turned into a nightmare, because we started to believe we can disconnect from the system of nature, rule over nature while it is impossible.
    We evolved from nature, our whole biological and psychological system is based on the laws of nature and we are still only one species, albeit a very unique one among the others.
    Our time, especially this generation signals the end of this dream-like human development, as by evolving into a global, interdependent human society, we have become completely interlocked with the system of nature.
    Our human invented sub-systems, human laws have become useless and obsolete since now the fundamental laws and principles of nature, designed to maintain general balance and homeostasis, have started influencing us in a direct manner. Our artificial bubble has burst.
    We are forced to wake up from our dream or nightmare and the only way we can survive and continue our evolution is by adapting to the system around us.
    And I fully agree with the conclusion of the article, the first step in this adaptation is global education, teaching people all over the world what it means to exist in a global, integral, natural system, and how humanity needs to adapt to it.
    Our human uniqueness is our mind, that can facilitate this adaptation in a conscious, pro-active manner, making us aware partners with the system contrary to the instinctive behavior, role other living organisms play in the system.

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    Some day we'll address the damage down by outsourcing jobs to slave wage countries.

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    For a close-up of the problem, manifested in the Baltimore inner city, see season #4 of "The Wire".

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