Monica,

In reference to your discussion with Michael Backs, the comment Perot made that always stuck with me was when he said that while everyone is in the stock market, the really rich have most of their wealth in government bonds. At the time government debt was a big issue. Remember George H. W. talking about the line item veto? So if government debt matters that much to the really rich, doesn't that sound suspiciously like there is more going on than we are being told. Like it's necessary for this capitalist system, to store everyhing that's sucked out of the rest of the economy?

I long ago accepted the bs is far deeper than even those pushing it realize, so I've tried trying to understand the underlaying dynamics and one idea that was been bubbling under the surface came to me a couple of months ago. That there are two dynamics in nature. Synchronization, which is centripetal and harmonization, which is centrifugal. So there are nodes and networks, organisms and ecosystems. Since society functions by synchronizing behaviors into a larger system, people inherently, subconsciously fall into line with whatever the group is doing. It's like everything from a groove becoming a rut, to slipstreaming.

As such, it seems a bigger idea than my easily distracted mind can work up into anything anyone would take seriously, so it might be a something to use in your own thinking.

Here is an essay I just put up, that reading through various times, I realize how disjointed it is, but an effort to work these ideas out;

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/the-cliffs-edge-2b382ae2a73