There are a lot of fathers to this mess.

We could go back to monotheism as a political device.

To the Ancients, monotheism equated with monoculturalism. One people, one rule, one god. The formative experience for Judaism, those whose tribal deity the West has made the grain of sand at the center of its pearl, was the forty years in the desert, culminating in the Ten Commandments. Node over the network.

Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, as expressions of multiculturalism. The many as one.

Rome adopted a monotheistic sect as the state religion, as the Republic faded and the Empire was becoming established, after a few centuries of the oligarchs feuding. All about the Big Guy rules. Divine right of kings. Top down.

When the West went back to broader based political systems, it required the separation of church and state, culture and civics.

The problem is that a spiritual absolute would necessarily be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. Ideals are not absolute and assuming them to be creates an extremely conflicted culture. All the ideologies to rise in the shadow of monotheism tend to assume their particular ideals to be absolute as well, from communism and capitalism, to woke culture, along with the remaining religious fundamantalisms. Nature, on the other hand, tends more toward the binary. Yin and yang. Even the physical is more positive and negative charge, than any base substance.

Now government, as executive and regulatory function, is essentially the central nervous system of the nation state, while money and banking serve as blood and the circulation system of the economy giving it sustenance. While government has become a public function, banking remains privately held and this has given banking the upper hand, as they are not subject to as much oversight and don't have to plan around election cycles.

Consequently banking interests have managed to hollow out any inconvenient government functions and manipulate the rest in their favor. The largest of which is creating enormous amounts of government debt, as this public debt is much of the asset base of the banking system and backing for enormous amounts of private wealth. Taken to its logical outcome, disaster capitalism will come home to roost and these piles of public debt will be exchanged for whatever remains of the public commons.

The only problem for this plan is that government is the decision making function, while banking serves to circulate assets where necessary, when it isn't siphoning them off. So basically the appetites. Consequently the resulting dynamic has all the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish. There is no accountability, no respect for conventions and agreements, no memory of prior states and factors, no long term planning, other than how to monetize anything and everything. Basically an economic Ebola virus.

So the only question is whether the host survives and can evolve to the point of understanding banking has to be a public utility, as well.

https://medium.com/@johnbrodixmerrymanjr/parsing-the-zombie-apocalypse-2e4413cefef3