I think of this particular mind set you're talking of as a direct derivative of a strict natural tendency to win, concur, rule.. Imho humans did not invent this in the slightest, only execute the inner mechanisms that are it's very constituents and act accordingly. The urge to more-and-stronger is in the fundament of nature, together with the collateral damage indifference. It is very difficult to hold high ethics that condemn certain natural tendencies. I for one admit using more than necessary electronics and nice to haves in life. I am part of the problem and admit to my unnecessary greed. Many are so in denial and should self reflect honestly.

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I think you're anthropomorphising nature there. 'Winning' in nature's terms is surviving, flourishing and passing on your genes, but behaviours that degrade the environment that sustains you are punished with reduction in the quality of your existence, and, ultimately, death.

Humans have taken this to an obscene, selfish extreme, seeing winning on purely individual terms. Everything and everyone else can go and hang. Nothing else in the natural world behaves as we do. If it did, there would be little life left, except maybe for the microbes.

Unless you are in abject poverty, you have very little choice but to be part of the capitalist system that is at the heart of this wanton destruction, as all aspects of our existence are part of the web that entangles and constricts mother earth. Sure, we can all make choices and personal sacrifices for the greater good, but to try and equate buying a new and unnecessary phone with the attitude and actions of those at the top of the pyramid who ensure we are all kept in this system that is destroying the very thing that sustains us, seems like trying to give them a pass they most definitely do not deserve.

As for the psychedelic renaissance and their capacity to alter our course, I'm afraid I hold out little hope. Unless a Tyler Durden emerges from the shadows and manages to dose the global structures of power and control with a monster dose of aya, I fail to see how anything meaningful will ever change. Unfortunately, what we see around us is just the representation of the side of humans that has 'won'.

The karma of being human is inescapable.

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