Dang! It's good to read a well thought out response. You even use "big" words, as my kids used to say. (Crap! You see even I do it when my guard is down... I judge, rate, and categorize too. And here I am the almost-got-my-shit-together person.)

Anyway...yes, indeed, we are still captives of the most ancient of all human motivations: survival. And the alphas and psychopaths among us have the urge to dominate not only other humans but nature in all its forms. It seems their goal and paradigm is to have all things be subject to their control. It seems to be a natural phenomenon of their exclusive culture.

I think ultimately, there is little hope of overcoming the elite, since the vast majority of humans are seemingly locked into their own paradigm of very limited observation, and a natural focus on their immediate survival and surroundings...as is normal and OK. So what then do we do to change things since we've come to understand that "power corrupts and it corrupts absolutely"? Perhaps there must come a revolution, a transformation of thought and perspective from within the culture of the elite. They must change by their own will. So how do we help bring that about? I don't know, but there certainly must be a way.

The only other thing I can see that will change things is some cataclysmic (oooh, that's a big word too) event that will destroy the delusional Empires of the elite. Perhaps nature or natures God will finally say, "Enough. Enough!" and shrug us off like ants on a picnic blanket. Or perhaps we will experience some cyclical event of nature that we have no control over such as an ice age, or extreme solar induced age of warming, or perhaps a major meteor strike or some similar event. We humans can hardly comprehend such a thing from our perspective as the chosen species in all of creation, but nevertheless, these events, and cyclical patterns do occur and will occur. Perhaps then, we'll be forced to be something other than the raving beasts we've been thus far. Oh my! Starting to sound Biblical here. but perhaps that is what is needed.

In the meantime we are exceptionally blessed to be able to participate in the creation of a new paradigm here on Steemit. Imagine the galaxies of possibility that we are part of! Blessings.