Nodes in the network.

Organisms in the ecosystem.

The economic fallacy is assuming money as both medium and store.

One is dynamic, the other is static.

Blood is a medium, fat is a store.

Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store.

Markets need money to circulate, while people see it as signal to extract and store.

The medium has becomes the message.

Storing the asset requires debt to back it, so the economy spirals into a maelstrom of debt, in order to sustain the illusion of wealth.

The capital markets could not function, without the government borrowing up trillions in surplus investment money.

The wars just make it go away, so more can be borrowed. That's why they are so strategically flawed, but no one seems to care.

People stare into the abyss of a heating planet, but no one seems to point out the obese financial system and its military hitmen are the biggest waste.

Are the Russians or the Chinese really going to invade us, or are they boogymen, so we don't look behind the curtain?

If it looks like the choice in 2024 is between Trump and Biden, I move there be a write-in candidacy of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. They looked the Beast in the eye and didn't blink.

You can make them drink the hemlock, nail them to the cross, burn them at the stake, torture, shoot, throw them in jail for life, but history doesn't forget who is right. If we want to see the future turn toward justice, we need to do something about it.