Thanks, and great post Liam.

Philosophy should be a priori to Policy and Life/Living, and if a philosophy of Life (and of economics and money systems) is fully fleshed out it brings clarity and ability to focus amidst the confusions in Life and on complex systems that have been consciously or unconsciously developed to be both complex and confusing….in order to attain and maintain monopolies that serve primarily self interests. Without due consideration of philosophy you end up with force when the stress of austerity and change is upon one. This is why Donald Trump is so popular. There are particles of truth in some of the things he says, but partial truths are historically never adequate and always end up blowing back at us. Progressives need to be aware of this, and offer a truly practical and complete philosophical alternative to Trumpism. If they don’t at worse they may end up with the rule of Nixon’s “silent majority”, and at best we’ll get the corporate and financial kabuki theater of Clinton or the well intentioned but incomplete reforms of Bernie Sanders. Again, Trumpism is a dark side reflection of the power of hope to move the electorate except it is mere brashness where the clarity of Wisdom and the power of grace/graciousness is what is actually called for. Let us have the complete philosophy that can bring actual functionality to our temporal systems and guide and align policies that can bring true economic hope to the individual.

Integration of the truths in apparently opposing ideas and theories is so important, and also why integrating the various economic and monetary reform movements is the next necessary step toward awakening the populace and the political apparatus so that the complete program gets implemented.