False theories AND old paradigms survive because theories are frameworks mostly describing problems while new paradigms are single new applied concepts…that resolve the anomalies of the present paradigm, but without consciously looking for the SPECIFIC new concept and how to apply it, its simply missed.
Theoretics are good and necessary, but if one doesn’t analyze the concepts behind the theoretics then the deeper problem of the anomalous realities the present paradigm creates and enforces usually gets lost.
You were on the right track almost 10 years ago when you stated: “Neo-classicals ignore/misunderstand debt and the money system because if they did they would have to admit that it de-stabilizes economies.” You would have been much better off to analyze the realities that new private debt enforces (the burden to fully repay) and also that new money can ONLY be created as debt that is, a paradigm concept of Debt ONLY which makes it a concept exactly analogous to the Roman Catholic Church’s paradigm of Salvation Via Roman Catholic Sacraments ONLY. In other words, the word ONLY designates it as a monopoly paradigm.