Breathtaking vision, SDAITech1. That's much further out than I was looking, and maybe that's an important point: Capitalism is "natural" in the sense that it mirrors the evolutionary struggles that brought us to this point--competitiveness, and even the sense of a life and death struggle. We've substituted abstractions like money and commerce that feel like survival issues, for the genuine survival issues of food and predation in the jungle.
But there's a certain pessism in what you describe, too. If we can't truly be free of the forms and constraints of the flesh until we discard it and become pure consciousness, you're almost saying that there's no real hope for us until some incredibly distant time in the future. I'd like to think that there's a middle ground in which mere mortals can still improve themselves. Call it the purest, most idealistic form of progressivism. I wouldn't want to have a philosophy whose ideal is so high that it becomes easy to give up and not try.
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