I think you are confusing two distinct issues.
For one thing, I think it’s safe to say that we could go to the most primal cultures in history and there would be those who seek to transcend the social and cultural norms and those who seek to re-enforce them.
Reality is this dichotomy of energy pushing out, as form coalesces in. Look at galaxies. We have the gut and heart pushing us on, while the head sorts through and orders the forms precipitating out. The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement.
The problem of the current economic situation is that we are these linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, reciprocal reality. Such that while markets need money to circulate, we treat it as the signal to extract from the noise of society and the economy. Necessitating ever more to be added and ever more extreme ways to store what has been extracted.
Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but a medium is dynamic, while a store is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store…
