If you really want a revolution, you have to change the paradigms on which this world is based.

For example, a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. More the light shining through the film, than the images and narratives projected on it.

Remember democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family as godhead. The Romans adopted a monotheistic sect as state religion around the time the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. Basically to validate The Big Guy Rules.

Long story short, ideals are not absolutes. When it becomes implicit to the entire society, everyone is at war with everyone else.

We treat money as a commodity to mine from society, but it functions as a social contract, enabling it.

As these linear, goal oriented creatures, we see it as signal to extract and store, while markets need it to circulate, so Econ 101 says it is both medium of exchange and store of value. Yet in your body, blood is the medium, while fat, as well as bone and muscle, are stores. They serve different functions.

As a medium, money is a public commons and utility, like air, water and roads. It is a part of the networks, connecting the nodes.

As a contract, to store the asset side of the ledger, you need a debt to back it, so much of our economy and society is designed to create enormous debt, in order to back the illusion of stored wealth. Consider that no matter what the politicians do, the one thing they are really good at, is running up the debt. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

There isn't the investment potential to individually save what we feel we need to be secure, but we do save for many of the same reasons, so the premise of the commons would be a logical solution for many aspects of society. Yet that would require people to understand a healthy society is based on collective responsibility, with rights as reward, not rights as ordained and responsibility as optional. Otherwise, it's the Tragedy of the Commons, as everyone grabs what they can and trashes the rest.

Safe to say, neither side of our current culture wars are anywhere close to understanding, let alone accepting this, so hang tight, my friends. The mother of all reality checks is in the mail.