Though when the mob is nailing you to the cross, making you drink the hemlock, burning you at the stake, or, in Julian Assange's case, locking you up and throwing away the key, it's hard to see how you come out ahead, but that is how it seems to work.

Several of my own ideas seem a bit out over the edge, but you might find them interesting;

We look at time back wards. As these mobile organisms, necessitiating a sequential process of perception and having developed a narrative based culture, we experience time as the point of the present, moving past to future. Which physics codifies as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

There is no literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to drive and inform it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

So time is an effect, like temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

God; Logically 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 fact we are aware, than the details of which we are aware.

While this top down father figure lawgiver might be a useful narrative device for social control, conflating the ideal, which is aspirational, with the absolute, which is elemental, creates the belief our ideals should be universal and beyond question, rather then unique expressions of our time and place. Hard to get to live and let live, when the Other is an affront to one's own True God.

Money; Basically it is a contract between the individual and community, but we treat it as a commodity to mine from the community.

Nature and markets are cyclical and circular, while people are linear and goal oriented, so while markets need mony to circulate, people see it as the signal to extract and store.

Econ 101 says money is both medium of exchange and store of value, but how does that work, exactly, given 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. It doesn't seem particularly intelligent to confuse them, but who knows, maybe economists know more than doctors and highway engineers. Maybe not.

As a contract, the asset is backed by a debt, so to store the asset, similar amounts of debt have to be generated. Ask yourself, could Wall St. function, if the government didn't siphon up trillions in surplus investement money every year? The secret sause of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.

I could go on, but as you were saying, you get too far away from herdthink and it's just blowing hot air. Trees falling in the forest.