Several religious traditions speak strongly in their most ancient texts of prohibitions on debt, and of the…

Several religious traditions speak strongly in their most ancient texts of prohibitions on debt, and of the control of pandemics. In an ‘economy’, all custom and tradition is abandoned. And here we are, up to our eyeballs in debt and infectious disease. 1/3 https://t.co/iGEU9AhLFZ

See the astronomical increase in private debt from the late-1970s, the exact moment ‘small government’ politics took off. The moment we abandoned the post-war collective task of building societies, and returned to social status hierarchies as the sole structure. 2/3 https://t.co/tFGvwU7Jvl

All that has given the illusion of everybody being part of the same society is personal debt. You borrow your way into the fiction. /end