The core defect in civilizations is treating everything as a commodity. Turning relationships, nature, and human dignity into things to be bought, sold, and optimized for short term gain, creating cascading problems that require increasingly desperate fixes.

What lifts societies out is comprehensive change. New institutions guided by expanded thinking that reorients culture around sustainable thriving rather than endless extraction. Modern tools like Bitcoin exemplify this choice. They can either feed the speculation cycle or build decentralized systems that serve human flourishing over institutional control.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​