A monetary debt so great it can never functionally be repayed produces in the material world the same effects we associate with spiritual debts of the same magnitude. Or visa versa.
That feeling when you look around and ask yourself: "Since when did third-world dictators and super-power comminist police states suddenly gain the moral high ground?"
North Korea hasnt bombed [anyone], China hasn't invaded Taiwan. Russia is keeping the gloves on.
They never taught this in school.....do we just blink twice, hang flags upside down or what?
I wonder if we have hit that point in history where later generations will determine the rest of the world looked at America as the largest existential threat of the time.