Finally I would like to provide some optimistic thoughts about why a viable solution might yet be in sight. First of all, when we work to clean up our inventory of beliefs we run into entirely new possibilities. Take the issue of change, for example. One of our ingrained programs about what we believe is possible and what is not possible, is that change takes time. This is not true.
Reality is full of quantum leaps and opportunities for such leaps are ever present.
We need to be open to them. Another reason for optimism lies in the discovery of the operating principles of the universe and how new ideas and behaviors spread. Once a new set of information has been created and is being lived, it sets a field, a morphogenetic field as Rupert Sheldrake calls it, and this field is the vehicle of change for other systems. So the creation of new structures, new information in itself changes the world. This means that real politics needs to be the politics of example.