It seems we disagree on the level of inertia in the present system. To coin a geological metaphor, I think it’s Ayers Rock, just sitting there on a plain for millennia while a few bits flake off and an occasional boulder falls. It seems that you think it’s a very large body with significant kinetic energy which will roll downhill at an accelerating rate if a few impediments are removed.
Only time will tell. Neither of us may live to see the “something totally different” that may emerge in geologic time. Meanwhile, Tom the Son hopes to start at Western Carolina University as a junior next fall, on a three-year program to an M.S. in Chemistry.
We probably don't. I see some cracks and fissures, but not a lot of movement yet. LOL to your deft phraseology!
Neither of us may live to see the “something totally different” that may emerge in geologic time.
Certainly true for me. Possibly true for you; but may be well in place for your grandchildren. ;-)