Trees are the soil's antennae: impedence matching devices between the grounded planet and space and sky. Humans have the best tools to be contributors to this world's abilities in that same vein, whether through philosophy or science, the question is always, "What are people FOR?"

It's an easy bet that we aren't here to build useless trinkets and squabble over little green pieces of paper (or imaginary bits that represent those pieces of paper).

We don't need any of the 'civilized' imaginary beings (gods, gurus, guns, money) for our lives to be lived usefully and cooperatively, yet we allow the System of systems to tell us we must support the system by competing with each other for a perch on a cog to be bathed in the lubricant of money and squashed when our turn of the gear arrives.