Are We on the Right Track?

As you abstract away from the natural order, you introduce the possibility of merely human manipulation for purposes that have nothing to do with the maintenance and stabilization of the productive natural order. So you're devolving away from thenatural ethic that's imposed on you by the principles and constraints. And so just take another comment. I don't think that we have observed this system working in the sense of producing material abundance or prosperity. The whole notion of prosperity has become divorced from the tangible side of it, which is basically food on the table, a warm place to live.