The reason there is no God's eye view, is that a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell.
When the discussion is about hundreds of millions and billions of people, it's not culture, or civics, or computation, or ideology, or a machine. It's biology.
At its most basic, reality is that dichotomy of energy and form. Galaxies are energy radiating out, as form coalesces in. Energy, being conserved, goes to the future, while form, rising and falling, goes to the past.
As consciousness goes to the future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts go to the past.
Though it is the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy driving us, while the central nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise.
The problem of which is that too much signal reverts back to noise. No omniscient omniscience. Knowledge is information, wisdom is editing.
So we fluctuate between the anarchies of desire and the tyrannies of judgement. Motor and steering.
Not all desires are healthy, nor all decisions wise.
As the executive and regulatory function of society, government is analogous to the central nervous system. While money and banking, as the medium of exchange and its management, are analogous to blood and the circulation system.
Consequently that tension between civil culture and economic motivations.
Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as that was how the Ancients explained the myriad forces at work in society and the world at large. Aka, multiculturalism.
Monotheism, in its original, tribal form, was monocultural. One people, one rule, one god.
The Romans adopted Christianity as the Empire solidified and reminders of the Republic were being erased.
Though Jesus's original message was, as Michael Hudson points out in his recent book, titled; Forgive them their debts. As an effort to resurrect the practice of debt jubilees. Co-opted to; Forgive them their sins. In order to indebt people to the church.
When the West went back to less centralized systems of government, it required the separation of church and state, effectively culture and civics.
The deception of capitalism is that it is asumed to be synonymous with markets, but nature is cyclical and circular, while people are linear and goal oriented, so while markets need money to circulate, people see it as signal to extract and store. Requiring ever more to be added and ever more metastatic methods of storing what has been extracted.
Since money functions as a contract, where the asset is backed by a debt, storing the asset requires generating debt.
One way is squeezing the flow of money through the economy, requiring it to run on debt and draw that saved money back into circulation. Which sets up a centripetal effect, as positive feedback draws the asset to the center, while negative feedback pushes the debt to the edges. Since it is the value circulation system, this is analogous to the heart telling the hands and feed they don't need so much blood and should work harder for what they do get. Which goes to that tension between government and economics that resulted in the practice of debt jubilees.
The other method is having the government as debtor of last resort. The elephant in the room truly is that the capital markets could not function without the government siphoning up trillions in surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
That the wars are just a burn pit to make it go away explains why the same inept clowns remain in charge, when in any other time in history, a fraction of that degree of failure would have them shot.
What has to be recognized is that money is the social contract and accounting device that makes mass societies possible, not a commodity to mine from them. Its functionality is in its fungibility. We own it like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies. It is a public utility, like roads. Our picture is not on it, we don't hold the copyrights and are not personally responsible for maintaining its value.
Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but a medium is dynamic, while a store is static. Blood is a medium, fat is a store. Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. The hallway is a medium, the hall closet is a store. The average five year old understands the difference, but economists are creatures of the system.
There simply isn't the investment potential to save the amounts required for a stable society, but we do save for many of the same reasons, so the concept of the commons will eventually have to be resurrected and updated. Which entails both public and private properties, like a house has family and personal spaces.
Government was private once, but as monarchs lost sight of their function to society, they were usurped. Now banking is having its own, "Let them eat cake." moment.
Not that banking can be a direct function of government, any more than the head and heart are one. Politicians live and die on the hope they inspire and people experience money as quantified hope, so printing excess money is a political sugar rush.
The irony of our individualistic ethos is the resulting atomized society is more easily controlled by institutional forces and mediated by a parasitic financial system. Like cocoons in the Matrix.
