I always had these weird thoughts, like I had a lot of money in my pocket but the bare minimum essentials are simply not there in the stores, they are nowhere, they kinda ... 'left' for want of our attention, pointing us back to that first transaction in the way of finding an alternative to barter system. "The thing's" exchange was replaced with "something else's" exchange, and ever since the attention has moved over to that "something else (SE)".
That SE evolved into a being in its own right, took the center stage, hogged the show of human race's progress which was soon to be governed, driven and assessed by its yardsticks. "Th (The thing)" took a back seat to SE and all this while Th's attention deficit secretly wended its way towards near non existence. We never let go of our obsession for and clung steadfastly to SE thru it all, so much so that it divided the whole of human race into how one set of people saw it differently than the other, the new and the only religion thereof.
We wake up now to this truth that all these years we have worried our heads over the management of SE, while good ol' Th, the food, the land, the air, the water, the earth and the human race slowly but surely crept in a spot of bother. In absence of any incentives in terms of SE to keep an eye on Th, we in this amazing self conflict know what needs to be done, but long been living in the world of SE, we seek if that conforms with the ways of SE's and we have apprehensions that it does.
I would like to add that SE was worked over by us over a long period of time, as I said it evolved into a being of its own, like other laws of life and living it outlives a man's life span or time of its influence. It lives in our institutions, persists and evolve there, institutions that stay while we pass by. The notion of SE operates in the conscious of human race, which is divided as we are all individuals, but SE is united and knows where it wants to go. Like many laws of life and living it unites us and has a say over human race but not often is the case vice versa.
It oughta be.
It made sense to work out a thing and then entrust it to govern us as we cant keep thinking things over and over again, but it seems SE’s goals are not in line with idealism, like Malthusian observation’s SE sees no value in a poor’s life, but we do as a life is a life is a life. SE has no latitude for climatic concerns, and looks like having threatening levels of affinity with Malthusian observations "...Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world..." but we cant afford to be that ignorant. We need to take a pause at some point and see that these parallels converge somewhere.
by Scott Mccloud a book that's worth its weight in gold. Its a comic book. Yes its written as a comic where the protagonist representing the writer walks you thru the tricks of the trade while making you richer with interesting facts from the history of comics , observations, working styles of various giants many other things. 
