Government, as the executive and regulatory function of society, is analogous to the central nervous system.

As money and banking are analogous to blood and the circulation system.

The primary social disfunction of our age, is that private banking is having its own, "Let them eat cake." moment.

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality and while markets need money to circulate, as a medium, people see it as signal to extract and store. Requiring ever more to be added and ever more metastatic methods of storing what has been extracted.

Contrary to Econ 101, a medium and a store are not interchangeable. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store.

As a contract, the asset value of money is backed by debt. Even gold backed currencies are only the reciept for the gold.

So storing the asset requires generating debt. Consequently our society and economy is geared towards generating debt, as an illusion of wealth, rather than building and sustaining a healthy society.

This creates a centripetal effect, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center, while negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges. Given the Ancients devised debt jubilees to reset this process, it is not a new phenomena, just studiously ignored.

The other main source of debt is government. The capital markets could not function, without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. Much of which is spent blowing up other countries and supporting large numbers of people as wards of the state, rather than find ways to develop sustainable communties.

So, yes, we are geared for failure. The question will be as to the lessons learned.

Part of the problem is that America, aka, the United States, only knows growth. A few hundred years of geographic, demographic, technological, industrial, scientific growth, topped off with forty years of exponential debt to keep the party going.

Those other countries we tend to see as backward and needing our advice have roots and cultures going back thousands of years, with the ups and downs as part of the rhythm.

No society can exist without some organic connection between rights and responsibilities. Yet our view of government is that it should guarantee rights, but responsibilities are for religion, or the family to teach.

So when everyone wants theirs, with those with the most power at the front of the line, is it any wonder society crumbles?