RE: Who am I? The politics version...
"We simply need to survive long enough for that to actually happen."
Agreed. I think that the process of being forced to exist by the efforts of our own hands makes us simultaneously brave and humble. Humans that are deprived of this experience tend to remain emotionally juvenile. And I think emotionally juvenile humans tend to fall for magical thinking, whether that involves religion or politics, as I think both tap into the same part of our juvenile brain that is willing to believe in magic.
In many ways humans may be like yeast in beer. We create bureaucracy and convention and urban legends as a side effect of our problem solving brains just like yeast makes alcohol as a byproduct of their metabolism, but as society gets more packed, this side effects start to become toxic to us just like alcohol starts to become toxic to yeast. And, just like yeast eventually become quiescent as the alcohol level reaches a certain level in beer, our offspring are no longer able to develop the way we could before our society became too packed to allow new generations the space and autonomy to mature.
Far too much of this type of thinking... (referring to this image)
That image, in a nutshell, is what politicians offer. But the button is not connected to anything. It's a placebo, whose calming effect stems solely from us watching it get pushed. But meanwhile the real problem gets either ignored or exacerbated.
Unfortunately many of our public institutions have become this way as well. They have all devolved to the equivalent of a scientistic rain dance (no offense intended to native americans by this analogy.) We see them doing something, whether that something is politicians legislating, or central banks adjusting, or doctors prescribing, or attorneys suing, and think that all is well with the world. But meanwhile, the real source of problems fester and expand because their sources, their causes, are never addressed.