Under the culture, politics and personalities, what drives society on the largest scales is physics and biology. If we better understood the dynamics, we would be better at navigating them.

As the executive and regulatory function, government is analogous to a central nervous system, while money and banking are analogous to blood and the circulation system.

Given the one is centripetal, while the other is centrifugal, there is a dynamic tension between them, much as there is tension between our desires and the judgements required to order and focus them.

The Ancients devised debt jubilees as a circuit breaker to the tendency of wealth to congeal, due to the mechanism of compound interest.

There was a time when government was private, but evolved over a few centuries into a public utility.

The problem is that as banking remains private, it has more leverage over government than government has over it, since it can buy up all the politicians. Eventually we will come to understand banking has to be a public utility as well, but it doesn't seem that debate has progressed very far. They are certainly still in the, "Let them eat cake." stage.

I've written various articles on the subject, but abstraction doesn't garner much attention.