limitless thinking is the weak point that man has to work for in order to grow -> widening of consciousness.
It is not a question of enlargement: thought is alienated from a system which works for our destruction (as well as to other forms of life), it is a question of freeing itself from this system, of repudiating the economy. As long as the challenges are made within this operating model (immanent critiques), they will be futile and the "exit" will be by the collapse of the system when it no longer manages to overcome its growing contradictions. The weak point of this colossus with feet of clay is indeed that if he is "armored" against possible retaliations of his agents (those who work for him [all of us]), he has however in his "genes" contradictions that it overcomes at the expense of the world in which it operates, but its success increases its contradictions until the possibility of its functioning disappears ...
It is up to us to understand it and to emancipate ourselves from it before it takes us with it, because contrary to what was written above, it will then be too late to act and probably even (it is my conviction) to understand.
Aside from these considerations, yes, this is a magnificent century since it has undergone completely new (and perilous!) Evolutions, although not really perceived in terms of trivial concerns of everyday life ...