These are humanities questions. Where I have landed so far is this: we continuously make the same mistakes in history (chop off the kings head and burn the playing field back to even, only to repeat the same problems by building an almost identical hierarchy. Rinse and repeat. Its what we are good at! The only optimism I have as far as working out some kinks is that the time table from rinse to repeat is not 2k years like ancient civilizations, or 200 like the US but 2 year. So people are witnessing the whole process, not hearing stories from grandparents and doctored history books. Now we can start to see the cycle in its entirety, and like any good therapist will tell you, recognizing the pattern is the only way to change it. Keep digging, we need to be constantly discussing and being fluid in how we adapt (a small project that made me smile was @dustsweeper.) people are just quick on their feet to keep things balanced and that is going to make all the difference in our possible change :) Great post !