The Impending Crisis

Despite all this good news, a shadow has emerged. An adversarial challenge to this state and process of expanding abundance. An emergent crisis of meaning and purpose. God is dead or so the story goes and the future is uncertain. Five centuries of ascendant reductionist enlightenment rationality have revealed that this starkly objective world lacks all intrinsic meaning. We are still determining how to maintain our economic security and prosperity in an efficient, cost effective and nature conserving manner.