Under the culture, politics and personalities, what drives life and reality is biology and physics.
Personally I'm not a terribly moral person, but I can't find that line between me and everything else, no distinction between observer and observation, especially as the observation observes back. So the only way I can feel healthy is to make the world around me a little healthier.
Government, as executive and regulatory function, is analogous to the central nervous system. As money and banking, distributing value around society, are analogous to blood and the circulation system.
There was a time government was private, but it has evolved to become a public utility. While banking remains a private function.
The problem is this handicaps government in this relationship, since politicians can't seriously plan beyond the next election cycle and become tools of the banks. Some would like to go back to private forms of government, autocracies and dictatorships, but the only real progress will be when we evolve to the point of seeing banking as a quintessential public utility.
The functionality of money is its fungibility. We own it like we own the section of road we are using, or the air and water flowing through our bodies.
Econ 101 says it is both medium of exchange and store of value, yet 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.
Money is a social contract, enabling society, not a commodity to mine from it. Markets need it to circulate, but as linear, goal oriented creatures, we try to save and store it. Consequently ever more has to be added and ever more metastatic methods of storing what has been extracted have to be devised. The asset has to be backed by a debt, so storing the asset requires generating debt.
One way is having the government as debtor of last resort. The elephant in the room is the financial markets could not function, without the government borrowing up trillions in surplus investment money. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth. The wars are just a way to make it go away, so more can be borrowed. That is why they can be so monumentally inept and no one is taken out and shot, as would happen at most other times in history.
The military industrial complex is really just the trophy wife of the banks and no one can point out she doesn't know shit about strategy, just give her all the toys to make her happy and screw everything else, just so long as the interest keeps piling up.
It is a ponzi scheme though and the mother of all reality checks is in the mail.
