It does seem that people like to live in their little boxes, with all the group directives and loyalties involved, because it is more comfortable and easier to deal with.
Until some larger force comes along and disrupts various of those connections. Then there is some willingness to peer ever so hesitantly out whatever Overton window is near, even if there are bars on it and it is frowned on by the larger group.
Given that many more of these boxes are likely to be disrupted in the coming years and decades, wouldn't the wise move be to start to be more objective about all these frames and the resulting biases that give structure to our lives?
For example, government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to a nervous system, while money and banking reflect the properties of blood and the circulation system.
Given the function of the first is to collect and focus the efforts of the body as a singular entity, while the function of the second is harmonizing the energies around this body, it should be noted this tension between synchronization and harmonization.
For one thing, bodies exist in larger ecosystems, nodes in the network, so it is natural for the harmonizing effect to intermingle with the larger context. Then develop its own points of focus and centripetal nodes. Thus banks and corporations function as entities occasionally at odds with state and national inclinations.
Michael Hudson has been writing a series of books on how this tension between political and economic forces has played out through history;
Yet even today, with all our supposed knowledge, much of the public is completely ignorant of this basic dynamic. Probably because those with the most power and influence have no use for further education and progress that might disrupt their own positions.
Though we do seem to be at a point where these elements are reaching the end of the chain, at a dead run. So rather than devolve back into some form of neofeudalism, we might consider examining the premises on which our culture is based.
Here are some of my efforts;
