Eric,

To a certain extent, liking money, but not liking government, is the fish liking the worm, but hating the hook. Completely understandable, but still not looking at the bigger picture. Both are a consequence of mass society and how it functions.

Think of reality as energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. As galaxies are energy radiating out, while mass falls in.

Our bodies are the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems, processing the energy driving us on, along with a central nervous system to sort through, order and judge the form/information precipitating out, as well as referee the emotions and desires bubbling up.

As such, there is this tension between the anarchy of desire, the heart, versus the tyranny of judgement, the head. Not every acorn gets to be an oak tree, yet it is the desire that gives meaning to the objects of desire.

So society is that plethora of desires bubbling up; social, economic, political, ethnic bonds and networks, while the civil and cultural forms coalesce in. Youth and age, liberal and conservative.

So when the particular frame, map, box, belief, etc, seems to constrain your interests and desires, it is a function of how life works. Either it becomes a puzzle to unravel, or it defines the form of who you are.

As I tell kids on occasion, growing up is like grass pushing through the concrete. Then one day you wake up and you are the concrete and there is this damn grass trying to push you out of the way.

Like the head, it gives form and focus to our desires.

Though the fact is that the current belief system of capitalism is no longer about the efficient workings of markets, as it is the production of notational value, as an end in itself. The tool has become a god and that is destroying it.

Boeing is a good example of the result. A little more government supervision and a little less focus on the bottom line would have been the wiser course of action.

The wave is cresting, so it’s time to think about the next one.

Billionaires may be at the crest of this wave, but it’s the drive for money among everyone else that propells the wave.

Here is another essay I wrote, trying to put a lot of this in one argument;

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/peeling-paradigms-d6168f007794