The problem with "shut up and calculate," is it doesn't think outside the box, so it doesn't understand, "GIGO."
The difference between capitalism and a free market, is when the medium of exchange is privately held, we are all tenant farmers to the banks.
The difference between slavery and colonialism is we ship the work there, rather than the labor here.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is the nervous system, while money and banking are blood and the circulation system.
With public government and private banking, the banks rule, as they are not subject to nearly as much oversight, don't have to work around election cycles and control the finances of anyone running for office. So the only real job the flunkies allowed in office have, is running up the debt the banks need to function. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
As linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular, feedback generated reality, people see money as signal to extract and store, while markets need it to circulate.
Blood is a medium, fat is a store....
To store the asset side of the ledger, a debt is necessary.
In effect, the MIC is the trophy wife of the banks, as the function of the wars are to burn off the credit, so more debt can be generated.
Unfortunately government is the decision making function, so neutering it and leaving the banks in charge creates a situation with all the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish.
That's why the wars are so monumentally inept and no one is held responsible. Basically the stage actors filling the roles have devolved into sociopaths, because they wield enormous power, but have no real responsibility. Essentially delinquent children with matches and gasoline to play with.
Can Dr. Frankenstein get his Monster back under control? The fires are getting ever closer to the core of their power.
People want answers, not truths. That's why there are so many priests and politicians, while the philosophers are intellectually neutered and confined to the back alleys of academia, to beat the same old tired ideas again and again.
