Nissim,

The problem with right and wrong, good and bad, is that culture tends to treat them as some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, when they really are the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.

That's because it is the function of culture to synchronize the community as a larger social super organism and needs those primary distinctions to be clear.

As such, these communities adopt governments as a form of central nervous system and mediums of exchange, aka, money and banking, as blood and circulation systems.

As cells within these bodies, people tend to resent the control of government, while loving the possibilities inherent in money.

This has created a situation where the banks are running amok and the only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt the financial sector needs to grow metastatically.

The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

We have been conditioned to think of money as a commodity to mine from the economy, when in fact it is the social contract enabling it. Its value is entirely a function of everyone else valuing it. As such, it is a public utility, not private property. You own it like you own the section of road you ar on, or the air and water flowing through your body.

People, being linear and goal oriented, see money as signal to save and store, while markets need it to circulate. So Econ 101 refers to money as both medium of exchange and store of value.

In your body, blood is the medium, fat is a store. As well as bone and muscle.

Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over and we would be fighting over our lots.

I could go on, but hopefully that gives some idea of just how monumentally ignorant our culture has become.

So it's not so much a question of it being that complicated, just that with enormous numbers of people, it is the elemental denominators that can appeal to them all and those with the power obviously like it how it is.

I guess I'm being a bit pessimistic, but I just can't get too many points to take root and grow.