Conservatism will always be shapeshifting, as each generation grows up and old, using the basis they were given to expand and grow a little more, then settle into routines.
Yet just like with lots of things, you can only patch the old for so long, before it needs a total reset. Which is where society is now.
I would argue that as government functions as the executive and regulatory function of society, it evolved from tribal chieftains and elders, to kings and courts, to presidents and legislatures.
While finance functions as the value distribution mechanism, analogous to the heart, arteries and blood.
As government evolved up out of its more primitive stages, it naturally became a private enterprise, as the hierarchy coalesced as monarchy. Yet this “anciente regime” stagnated and became unable to focus and regulate society, so it gave way to government as a public utility, still evolving.
Now finance is having its “Let them eat cake.” moment, as it cannot see beyond its own gratification to the function it serves in the social organism.
Currently it is using all its levers of power to sustain this and assumes there is no alternative, just as monarchists argued “mob rule” could never work.
Not that banking can be a direct function of government, anymore than the head and the heart are one. As politicians find it an easy fix to print more money, when other forms of progress are hard.
Public government works best by pushing authority and power down to where it is most effective, local, regional, national, international. So that there is both this balancing of power and understanding that a healthy society requires all its various parts to be healthy, not just some predating on others.
A public banking system would have to be similarly structured.
Eventually we will evolve to the point of being a central nervous system to a planetary organism, but only when we realize the ultimate function of the central nervous system is sustaining the health of the larger organism, not just getting wrapped up in its own addictions and navel gazing.
