To culture, good and bad are some cosmic conflict between the forces of righteousness and evil, while in nature it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental. The 1/0 of sentience.
That's because it is the function of culture to synchronize the social body into one larger organism. Which, should you dissent, the immune response will cancel, ostracize, burn you at the stake.
So anytime the crowd starts running around and pointing fingers at someone, my tendency is to step back and look at who is pulling the strings.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system, while money and banking mirror blood and the circulation system.
As such, government is inherently centripetal, pulling the structure of society inward. While banking is naturally centrifugal, radiating the energies outward.
We have evolved to the point of understanding government works best as a public utility, but haven't yet realized similar principles apply to banking.
When the medium enabling markets is privately held, we are all just tenant farmers to the banks.
This has given banking the upper hand, as they are not subject to the same levels of oversight and don't have to work around election cycles.
Consequently they have managed to hollow out government, leaving a bunch of flunkies and grifters filling the seats. If you notice, the one thing they are good at, no matter what, is running up the public debt.
If you also notice, this debt is foundational to the banking system.
We are linear, goal seeking creatures in a cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, so while markets need money to circulate, people see it as signal to extract and store. Though a medium is not a store. Blood is a medium, fat is a store.
In order to store the asset side of the ledger, a debt has to be created, to back it. Consequently the secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
The blowback this is causing, is that as government is the decision making function, while banking simply fills needs and appetites, the dynamic has all the strategic aptitude of bacteria racing across a petri dish.
Consider the monumental ineptitude of the various wars over the last 20 years, if you need proof. We win the battles and lose the wars.
In any other time in history, this level of incompetence would have those responsible taken out and shot, not showered with medals and cushy jobs. That's because their real function was as a burn pit for the money, so more would be borrowed.
The MIC is just the trophy wife of the banks.
Now we are knocking on Russia's door and they refuse to turn around and bend over and it is disconcerting to the flea brains supposedly running things, as they read from their teleprompters.
Given Russia doesn't have the time and foresight to move onto public banking, they did the opposite and went back to private government. Which is the real reason for Putin, as autocrat.
