Where to from here?  What are we to do?  To sharpen the point, what am I to do? 

We are to suffer the impact of problems so large and so complex that they defy expert understanding, problems so great in scale that no reasonable solution is apparent.  These “problems” are the outcome of ratiocination, the enframing of “reality” in a granular manner such that, down the road, institutional collapse awaits. 

The real estate crash of 2012 comes to mind, when lenders offered “free” (very low interest money) to individuals without resources to fulfill repayment.  A gamblers mind, the calculation that property values would rise indefinitely, and loans could be refinanced obscured the truth.

The State of Illinois is faced with a problem with a similar genesis.  Elected office holders figured that an infinitely rising investment market, meant they could keep offering sweet pension deals to labor unions, and government employees, which the tax payer would never need to pay for.  They were seduced by a gimlet-eye parsing of reality, blocked from seeing the truth.  That “train wreck” continues to develop.

I offer a few more lines from Martin Heidegger:

      On the one hand…..
enframing challenges forth
into the frenziedness of ordering
that blocks every view
into the propriative event
of revealing
and so radically endangers
the relation to the essence of truth.

      On the other hand,…….
enframing propriates for its part
in the granting that lets man endure
—-as yet inexperienced,
but perhaps more experienced in the future
—-that he [you] may be the one
who is needed and used
for the safekeeping of 
the essence of truth.
Thus the rising of the saving power appears.

–excerpt, The Question Concerning Technology
By Martin Heidegger, p. 338