The biggest problem is that we try fitting a binary, "dialectic" reality into a monolithic paradigm.

It's more yin and yang, than God Almighty.

There is the constant tension between desire and judgement, the heart and the head.

As executive and regulatory function, government is analogous to a central nervous system. The function of which is to steer among all the options.

Meanwhile money and banking serve as blood and the circulation system. The function of which is to distribute resources effectively around society.

We have evolved to the point of understanding government is a public utility, while still assuming banking as private enterprise.

The fact is that if the medium enabling markets isn't neutral, then the rest of the economy amounts to tenant farmers to the banks.

Since the banks are not subject to the same levels of oversight, as government and don't have to plan around election cycles, they have effectively hollowed out of government any real strategic decision making function. Leaving a bunch of flunkies, whose only real job is to create as much public debt as possible. Which the banks need to function.

Money is a contract, enabling markets, while people see it as signal to extract and store. Econ 101 says it's both medium of exchange and store of value, but blood is a medium, while fat is a store. They are also on opposite sides of a spectrum.

As a contract, storing the asset requires generating the debt to back it. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

Anyone with any historical knowledge must wonder how our military can be so monumentally inept and no one is taken out and shot, but their real function isn't to win wars, but to burn through the money, so more can be borrowed.

I could offer a fair number of other examples of how we put this mental strait jacket on our collective thinking.

For instance, a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. The light shining through the film, than the images on it.

Ideals are not absolutes and an entire culture founded on the assumption will be inherently fractious, as all the competing ideals, from Wahabism to wokism, battle it out to the death.

Michael Hudson wrote a book on the ancient conflict between the rich and the rulers, called Forgive Them Their Debts. That Jesus' original message was to bring back debt jubilees, as a circuit breaker to the feedback loop of compound interest, but the Romans co-opted it as, Forgive them their sins. Basically that people are guilty for being born, aka, original sin and should shut up, do what they are told and hope for a better afterlife. So the layers of thought control run pretty deep.

To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, while in nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience, because it's the function of culture to get everyone synchronized as a larger social organism.

Though organisms exist in ecosystems, where they all don't march to the beat of the same drummer.

Harmonization, rather than synchronization.

Two sides to every coin.