Or must we write a Manifesto and only communicate that?

er, yes actually!

both/and... one prong with graphs for the economic wonks (heavily ref'd with nuggets of veblen, george, et al and one for the innumerate proles, preferably with cartoons to help explain.

the ignorance prevails because the Lie is unthinkably Big. while this essay lassoos the intellectual contingent, the manifesto must break down the wall between the perps and the rest of us doofuses, so we-of-little-brains may become privy to the arcane voodoo secrets that end up in poverty and war for the huddled masses outside the selected circles.

well done migeru! great synthesis.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty