Scott,

Then again even the creditors can’t escape nature. That they are blowing the most enormous bubble of debt the world can ever imagine, is creating an opportunity to really expose the mechanisms at work.

It goes to our essential nature, as mobile organisms, where we are linearly motivated, towards some goal, yet nature is cyclical and reciprocal. If we could transition towards a more yin/yang paradigm, from this monist idealism, it would undermine various of the fallacies built into the culture.

Frankly there are much deeper and culturally disorienting issues that can be raised, such as whether time is the present moving past to future, or change turning future to past, so that our narrative based culture is really a flat earth type of assumption, rather than appreciating the thermodynamic feedback loops running through everything, on every level.

Or the monotheistic belief in a spiritual absolute as an ideal from which we fell, rather than the essence of sentience, from which we rise. Not only would that start to explain why our religious beliefs fail to give the satisfaction they aspire to, but it would really crack open a philosophic tradition which has spent millennia chasing its tail around ever more arcane issues, but didn’t notice the conceptual flaw and significant social ramifications of conflating the ideal with the absolute. It is certainly emotionally appealing to assume our ideals are absolute, but the logic is seriously lacking.

I guess you read my essay on this, so I’m really just making the point that while the political forces are arrayed against exposing the centripetal dynamic of debt/credit drawing all value to the center of the community in an ever more parabolic feedback loop, it is a fairly simple to understand issue, if it can be broadly taught. The greatest opportunity to question these assumptions will be when this credit bubble does finally pop.

The greatest danger to capitalism are the capitalists.