[Radim]

Of course. Different levels of resolution reveal different details, and 2. was the ultimate zoom-out.

Still, I believe keeping the directionality in mind helps with perspective – even as turbulent whirls and eddies appear to float upstream, miraculously, temporarily.

I now realize I forgot another observation, closer to chongli's original slightly-beyond-human resolution of bust-and-boom economic feedback loops:

3) Most people are pliable and will do as they're told.

Even to their detriment, even all the way to their demise. And the process of human self-domestication is still accelerating.

Historical examples abound; from extremely ancient to uncomfortably recent.