Janic wrote:Hence the question: do we think we can reduce the cancerization of our societies with the same methods as current medicine (which only sees and attacks the effects not the causes) and leads anyway, to term , to death ?
This is generally what has been doing for 30-40 years in France and in industrialized countries ...
Recently a name has been given to this: "sustainable development"
To make a little analogy: rather than quitting smoking, we take cough syrup!
The deep questioning of the system, that is to say the renunciation of the search for exponential growth would constitute a danger for the powers in place, it is therefore rather unlikely that the changes will be carried out in a "surge of wisdom".
Historically, disasters have almost always been a wake-up call ...
We notice once again the concept of invariance of scale; society such as a living organism takes measures only when there is the appearance of violent pain ... note that in cases of strong addictions, the only pain is not enough and it follows the death of the organism, as you mentioned with the example of cancer.
