Moving Forward Amid the Wreckage of American Civilization

Antonio Gramsci, the noted political theorist, has memorably said "The crisis consists in just this--the old world has died and the new one cannot be born." This strikes me as unusually perceptive. The question then becomes "Why is this? Why can't the new world be born?" The answer is elusive, but the long arc of the history of the West from the end of the Middle Ages to the present offers many opportunities for revealing. Part ot the problem is that there has been a world that is coming into being by default, and that world is the technological society. For all technology has done for the amelioration of suffering and the bringing of comfort, its deleterious effects are becoming more and more apparent. Capitalism has no answer to its depredations, but socialism is equally incompetent in addressing the problem as well it seems to me. Normally, these issues are dealt with within the ivy walls of academia, but my disillisionment extends to this sphere too. I have come to believe more and more strongly that these vitally important issues must be examined outside all the normally existing venues, which are fatally impregnated with conflicts of interest at every turn. My particular take on the direction forward involves what might be termed the anarcho-psychological critique of capital and its provenience in Calvinist thought. Who's up for some exploration of these ideas out there?