What Profiteth A Nation to Gain the Whole World And Then Die?

We do have steep geo-political risks in this world. But we now have unacceptable economic and ecological risks. In fact, on a weighting chart, we are all off-kilter. We are spending our wealth—more than our wealth, actually—to insure our national defense against much less likely threats to our very survival than the threats we have to those two FOUNDATIONS. Instead of spending so much time looking at the structure built on top, shouldn’t we be looking at what holds that structure up? Because what good does it do to quest for the best structure when all that supports it is cracking and giving way? We have been insanely off-focus.