Then there is the binary political system. The antelope have the choice of voting for the hyenas, or the lions.

The elephant in the room is that much of our political discourse has been steered to social issues, to distract from the economic dynamic.

The function of money and banking should be an accounting device, to regulate the flows of value around the economy, but it's been turned into a wealth extraction mechanism, leaving the rest of the economy sucking dirt and fighting over the scraps.

Government was private once and now private banking is having its, "Let them eat cake." moment.

Money is a medium, like roads, or the air and water flowing through your body. Yet we are taught it is a commodity to mine from the economy.

Econ 101 says it is both medium of exchange and store of value, but one is inherently dynamic, while the other 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.

If the average five year old can figure it out, what are the economists smoking?

Money is a contract, not a commodity. The value is in the obligation required to back it, so to store the asset, there has to be sufficient debt to back it. Consequently much of our presumed wealth is based on money loaned to those who couldn't afford to buy whatever in the first place, trapping them in debt servitude.

For one thing, the capital markets couldn't function without the government borrowing up trillions in surplus investment money. The military is just the trophy wife. She gets all the toys she wants and no one can tell her she doesn't know squat about actual strategy. That's why it's been fifty years of losing wars and no one has been taken out and shot, as it would be if actual national defense was the goal.

We are linear, goal oriented creatures in a cyclical, circular feedback generated reality, so we tend to see the medium as the message, once we've been wrapped up by it long enough.