It's politics all the way down, but it's economics all the way up.

There was a time when government was private and now banking is having its own, "Let them eat cake." moment.

The reality is that money functions as a social contract and public utility, but we see it as a commodity to mine from society. Markets need money to circulate, while capitalism treats it as signal to save and store.

Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. Mix them up and the system breaks down.

The functionality of money is its fungibility, so we own it like we own the section of road we are are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies.

It's not our picture on it, we don't hold the copyrights and are not responsible for its value, as though it were a personal check.

Given saving money requires debt to back the asset, our society is designed to generate debt, to sustain the illusion of wealth.

The capital markets could not function without the government borrowing up trillions in surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

The wars are just a way to spend it. That's why they are so monumentally inept and no one is held to account.

There isn't the investment potential to individually save what is necessary, but we do save for the same reasons, so the commons would be the logical solution, but that would require a society willing to accept that responsibilities come before rights. Otherwise it's, "Tragedy of the Commons."

So it seems likely our culture will burn, before that happens.

It's not what we take, that gives life meaning and purpose, but what we give. We are linear, goal seeking creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality.