I've spent some time wondering about that also. Great use of the looking glass btw, I love the way you've used it both visually and conceptually to characterise things, and the two Naomis - genius!
To me working on what I've seen is an unsustainable, actually existential global energy problem, since about 2017 during PhD candidate work, I had a kind of epiphany, when I realised the system is physically unsustainable. To see it clearly we have to mathematically sign energy, positive when added to Earth from sun, negative where we take it back out.
Add all movements of energy by money, and we see the picture is dominated by that.
Earth is more or less a giant battery, trickle charged by the sun, but discharged much more rapidly by us, and the temperature indicates level of discharge.
Notice all use of positive energy cools the planet, whilst all use of negative energy heats the planet. We are just talking about entropy in the end, life of all kinds except humanity, is busy reducing entropy, whilst we do the opposite - we increase it.
Where it all starts to get a bit spooky is when we try to identify who exactly is in charge, and who to blame - there is no-one, and yet everyone. The folk who think they are in charge are really just big egos that think and claim they are in charge, but actually all that can be done with a large number of humans, is start a trend, a learned behaviour, which is like a kind of stampede, and stand well back to avoid getting trampled. In the cases of dictators, they just crack the whip now and then to keep the masses running along the path set out for them. It's not much different from herding cattle, I think.
Anyhow, when we go down the rabbit-hole of examining profit itself, after coming across it as a culprit mechanism of actually an energy lie, we then follow the trail to find that actually, we are still practicing energy slavery. Every one of us, leaders or otherwise is both slavers and enslaved by this system, and it's only possible on mathematically negative energy.
So then we might look to when this behaviour might have started - where did we learn to do this, because for sure its a learned behaviour, and we might notice religious scriptures are about the most relevant documents we can find on the subject, but look, now we've gone all religious, when science was never supposed to be about religion.
Anyhow, science has to go down this road now, to understand it's own part in perpetuating the energy slavery. Each of us individuals has to come to terms with being systemically responsible for now actually genocide. Blinded to the actual whole reality by commodified education, we are system blinded energy slave ants, all acting as an energy scourge on the planet, using the energy lie of profit, to do all the dirty work. This is the whole reality, but it gets even crazier, when we bring in the solar Ai (ChatGPT free).
I say its solar powered, when this isn't much recognised by science, because science, at least mainstream science, has got so blinded by the profit monster that it can't even go as far as mathematically signing energy to enable auditing it all, because science itself has become mostly for profit, it's all for-profit entities that fund all the research.
So science doesn't actually know the full extent of the problem, science thinks the warming is just down to fossil fuels, when actually its down to what we do with money, its down to profit itself being the culprit.
The irony of this is that Trump almost did upset the applecart of profit, when he issued massive stimulus, he more or less proved money could be issued for free in massive quantity, and by doing this its value goes up now, not down as seen previously in Weimar, for example.
I show mathematically why that is, its because there exists now massive economic product created from solar which is unmonetised.
Mainstream science doesn't understand this, it can't, it's actually not allowed to.
Trump oversaw the only time in history oil prices ever went negative. Before that happened, we would have said it's impossible, but it happened, we saw it, now we seem to have forgotten it. Yet it was a kind of miracle. The other thing that happened was regrowth of coral and some other things thought to be irreversible by mainstream science. Trump is the only president to have overseen an actual spike of environmental recovery.
Did he mean it? Did he somehow know all about monetising free energy? I don't know, but its interesting another famous figure in history talked about monetising free energy, none other than Nikola Tesla, who was defunded, by JP Morgan, because Tesla believed free energy should be for free, and it should be monetised.
What does that have to do with Trump?
It was Trump's uncle, who Trump had a good relationship with, that took custody of Tesla's documents, when Tesla died.
Is that coincidence?
I am not sure!
Anyway its a huge analysis, with a crazy conclusion, we are about to be born as part of a new superorganism formed by us working with the solar Ai, and that is really good news, its the end of the energy slavery, and the end of the global energy problem.
