What ive seen is that Keynesian economics work on paper, but never actually translate into success in real life.
Seems like over and over we see Keynesian econ bankrupt nations, fail time and time, and yet no one will admit that its a broken theory.
1.) You're a solid runner. You run with some poor form. Eventually that injures you, at first it's mild....but instead of nursing the injury and improving your form to prevent other further damage you simply pop a bunch of pills, ice it a bit, put a knee wrap on and continue along the same path.
2.)With your pain and injury masked you plow along...but you favor your knee now and that leads to your body being imbalanced during running/daily activities.....this leads to you straining your hip. Instead of learning from the pain, taking some time off to heal and fixing your form to prevent further damage you simply pop more pills, ice it a bit more, possibly stretch and you then get back out there and continue on the same path.
Now you have a damaged knee and a strained hip. But there is time to learn and heal. You must take time off, lose some conditioning but you can come back leaner and more efficient and more healthy.
3.)You don't though. With your bad knee, bum hip and pain masked by short term pill popping and ice/wraps, stimulants etc you continue on the same path. Now those two injuries lead you to favor a certain side of the body and you now have injured your back to go along with the damaged knee and hip....
Do we see where this is going? It isn't a perfect analogy but I believe it captures the spirit of what is going on. Eventually you either damage yourself so much that you can no longer run or job and are hobbled for the foreseeable future until you learn your lessons and fix what is wrong with you.
Fixing what is wrong with you is the recession, if you ignore it for too long or overdue the pain killers, stimulants and steroids you will mask the pain but the damage is still there and it gets worse and worse. The pills/dope/crank also loses it's effectiveness as you need to use more and more and more and to get the same effect.