Organizations of today often exist by themselves for themselves without sensible or rational connectivity to other proximate beneficial organizations. It seems that business itself has become a self-promulgating machine in many cases and is out to survive at any cost to society or our natural environment. In essence, they often use the characteristics of our current world today as an opportunistic, self-promoting, and self-advancing means to survive in a financial world context. It appears that most organizations’ functioning is out of context with higher planning that integrates the contextual, rational, reasonable, and sensible with the solely opportunistic functioning of today. I think this would change if we eliminated the money/finance striving piece as the primary motivator of people and organizations. We must stop the opportunistic and often exploitive tendencies of those organizations that think little of taking what they need for survival. Unplanned resource extraction and consumption in this out-of-context survival at-any-cost mentality unnecessarily create more reactionary behavior, which tends to make more of the same. The result is more reactionary complexity and extreme tactics when resources become limited because of a lack of planning. I am also concerned with externalities and pollution associated with a solely industrial-era mindset to produce as much as they can for as much profit as they can so they can make investors happy.

Meanwhile, our regulatory structure cannot regulate much out-of-control survival at any-cost organizations when many look for legal loopholes or make mistakes without telling anyone. It is another example where the law is entirely inadequate as business is ever-changing, and the law cannot match the pace. Likewise, keeping up with business and industry dynamics would take a never-ending paperwork trail. I believe that, over many decades, businesses, lobbyists, pro-business legislators, and pro-business political groups have opportunistically and effectually taken over the functioning of the government of the people and for the people. The government has become more of a courtship with business and finance. It is primarily concerned with communicating with lawyers, managers, and executives rather than the most important “we the people” and our people working with our natural environment. We are on a dangerous road because we need to move beyond being masters of nature, as it says in the bible, to working together with nature. Maybe the translation in the bible may have meant master in terms of knowledge instead of master in terms of domination, control, and supreme authority. The only way forward is to work together with nature by putting ecological value, energy, benefit creation, and well-intentioned behavior above any profit derivation from public resources meant for all of us, not the corporations. From now on, I believe that God meant “masters” to mean masters in knowledge about nature and working together with nature instead of dominating nature for self-serving profit creation above all else. Therefore, we must change course and transform our functioning to something that is more compatible and works together with nature and our life support systems. We must strive to look after our Earth and everything in an integrated way as best as possible and become masters in knowledge about human beings and their interaction with the rest of nature.