“The further from nature they go, the worse humans get.” - Jack Dorsey As Jack says, America has a problem. But he’s not going deep enough into its cause accepting symptomatic elements (military industrial complex, fiat system, etc…) instead. These elements exist because of something deeper. When it comes to the financial system, Jack sees things in critically helpful ways but what he seems to be missing is how his own pursuit of human autonomy could end up contributing to the problem in similar but different ways. The American pursuit of autonomy is an underlying ideology/narrative that drives symptoms he’s pinning on American expansionism. We are expansionist and enforcing of these values because of,in part, our pursuit of autonomy. If we don’t recognize and address the root drivers, we’ll simply become expansionist in other areas. If we don’t admit past mistakes we’ll keep making them. Humans aren’t autonomous. To relentlessly pursue autonomy is to flee our human nature.