Ib Jorgensen:  Says Jean-Pierre Dupuy in “Economy and the Future – A Crisis of Faith” 2014:

“Little by little, Economy emancipated itself from the shackles of the sacred. Once held in check by religion, and then by politics, it has today become both our religion and our politics. No longer subject to any higher authority, it cannot decide our future, or make us a world in which to live: it has become our future and our world. Advanced postindustrial societies have been well and truly mystified, in the original sense of that word, and their politicians hoodwinked. The result is paralysis. …. If civilization can yet be saved from extinction, the change in attitude this requires of us must be, first and foremost, metaphysical in nature.”

Me: Amen to that Ib. And that could be either/and/or supernatural or natural metaphysics.