Thank you very much for reading and taking the time to respond. I can't fill in every point, so some appear to be unclear.

1) I'm certainly not criticizing the premise of a military in general. That would be like criticizing the body's defense mechanisms. Yet some balance is a necessary attribute of any aspect of life and reality. They call it the Defense Department, but the joke is how close all these other countries, Russia, China, Iran, etc, insist on putting their countries to our military bases.

The fact is that our military is not only not about defense, it's hardly about offense, given all the monumental failures of the last several decades and global turmoil they have caused, from broken states, to refugee flows, to even succeeding at their stated aims. The reality is that our military is the only public works project that both sides of our current cultural ideology will allow, consequently it has become bloated, inefficient, aka, corrupt and incompetent.

I could go on, but it's morning...

2) Banks and money. Money is a medium!!! It's is the network! I said it should be a public utility, not that it should be centralized! That's like saying air, water and roads should be centralized. As mediums, we all need them, so they can't be totally abused and have to be maintained in some healthy condition, so that does require some degree of planning and effort, which entails the order implicit in centralization. Remember maintenance of roads is divided between federal, state and local.

Before the creation of the Federal Reserve, many banks would issue and back their own currencies, in local communities. The real purpose of the Fed was to make the public responsible for the stability of the currency, while the banks still functioned as profit centers for their owners. Got rid of some of the risk, but kept the rewards.

Here is an interesting site; http://www.publicbankinginstitute.org

As for the biological analogy, yes, there are certainly relationships between blood and fat, medium and store, but in terms of balance, it's safe to say our system is designed to far overproduce money, than the normal functioning of the economy requires.

The balance function in all this isn't just a flatline, but fluctuating around a fairly stable median, that can adapt to outside input, etc.

Of to work, so cutting this short.