Explanations for the collapse cannot be summed up in a single idea or one catastrophic event. The truth lies somewhere deeper down. What went wrong started going wrong a long time ago, perhaps as far back as the start of our evolution as human beings, certainly at the start of our own cultural evolution. Deep in the recesses of our minds and societies, there exist structures that govern our ways of thinking and being. These structures, built over centuries as a dialectic between inner mind and outer world. ...