The Hollowed Out Social Bond

There’s a ratio between the oppressor and the oppressed: the number of cartridges in a gun’s magazine is finite; once it’s all used up, the survivors hang, draw and quarter the shooter for good. So if a crime syndicate is to extend its domination beyond that ratio, it has to expand its ranks.
Particularly, for any suppressive it is imperative and essential to turn his or her fellows into irresponsible firing squads executing one another, something that you will see in a deeper light once you'll be aware of the Third Party Law and the Milgram experiment further ahead.
And the bankers basically want the whole world, plus interest. So the pyramid scheme they create is not different in nature from any other criminal pyramid, but it is in size: usual, but this time its order of magnitude is global, and laid on the society as a whole.

Who could ever have the money to buy everyone, whatever the price? The answer to this question, further extended ahead, is: unprecedented fact in history, they do. The remarkable fact being indeed that they are in a position to do it: nobody in the society has as much political power and as much economic power as they do, and furthermore those powers of theirs are of such a scale that they can affect the society globally. Carrot−and−stick? They have enough financial resources to deploy both at an order of magnitude unapproachable by other criminal conspiracies. An example?

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Let’s return to Example Island. There always live 100 people, and one of them starts pushing drugs to five other people. Then he uses the carrot−and−stick on his victims: push more drugs to others to afford more doses – the carrot, or enjoying withdrawal symptoms – the stick. Then another one does the same with five other people. Now we have on the island about 88 honest people, 2 criminals and 10 victims−accomplices. Until now, given such relations of power of 88 to 12 – or 98 to 2, provided the honest people have not become too much potential trouble sources, straightening things up isn’t much of a struggle for the 88 or 98, isn’t it? A not entirely negligible detail that makes this possible is that the economic environment in which they live is so that 88 to 98 out of 100 people make a living out of honest, ethical, productive activities. They have a chance to compare good and evil and choose between them.

But now suppose a third one, having unlimited resources, starts pushing drugs to 80 other people. Now out of 100 people we have 3 criminals and 90 victims−accomplices subjected to carrot−and−stick. You get the idea, now, not only of how explosive – or implosive – the situation is, but also of the struggle to straightening it up, being 7 against 93. Then add to this that his unlimited resources allow the third criminal to influence the economic environment so that almost all honest and productive activities are either wiped out or made dishonest and unproductive – destroying more than they produce. Thus the addiction to parasitism is not only induced by its intrinsically addictive nature of creating, eliciting and exploiting human weaknesses, but further amplified by the economic environment, in which almost no one has any alternative to evil, any chance to choose. If quitting addiction is an issue, how about quitting addiction without any alternative in sight to support you, both materially and spiritually, while sunk into an environment which is completely enslaved by addiction?

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So now let’s transpose the example in less conspicuous but not less deadly terms, by replacing a blatant addiction – that to drugs, with another one just as deadly – that to unethical, unproductive jobs, producing less actual long−term survival for all in exchange for a seeming short−term survival for self, but without alternatives at hand.

Label it as you please – feudal, racketeering, totalitarian economy –, it’s always the previously discussed suppressive basic of an oligo−monopoly deliberately creating and exploiting scarcities of survival factors. And from that point of view you can look at and understand any depressed region. It has been said that depression is but the result of accumulated unsolved oppression.

To describe the economy of a depressed region we could say that wealth and jobs are scarce and almost all in the hands of the oligo−monopolists, so all the hopes of people to work and thus eat are in the hands of those oligo−monopolists. The alternatives to the oligo−monopoly may be explicitly fought or just magically never seem to materialize, that’s secondary; and the oligo−monopoly may be the prerogative of any kind of chaste, whether it’s a government or a multinational corporation or a racketeer that’s secondary, too. A government−type case in point is southern Italy, where the figures of employees in the public sector are abnormally elephantine, everyone seemingly dreams of a public employment, and the quota of economy managed by politicians and public officials is accordingly huge with all ensuing consequences; a corporation−type case in point is globalisation, where the whole world is being crushed in endless ways by the power of the multinational corporations; and as to the racketeer−type, both these examples fully qualify for it.

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Given such relations of power in the economic panorama, guess what is in the offing? To begin with, a dreadfully high share of the populace is subject to a suppression without being aware of it for what it is and without being able to do anything about it, and therefore is a potential trouble source. But what’s worse on this basis is, that same dreadfully high share is going to undergo the personality shift of the overwhelmed potential trouble source, too: from victim to oppressor.

The society is therefore liable to reach the well known state where about 90 people out of 100 will form the firing squads, shoot the 7 that kept things going, and then say they were not responsible, they were forced to choose between complying with orders or being in turn executed. The well known riddle of leeway left when surrounded by evil.

But this unpleasing situation exemplifies another one as well – less conspicuous but not less important –: substitute now firing squads with elections, guns with votes, and you’ll see what happens to democracy – being democracy the rule of the majority, whatever – and therefore to freedom and survival, when the parasitic pyramid of victims−accomplices becomes majority. The parasite expands beyond viable limits and thus murders the host organism – and rather painfully, too.

Furthermore, if all that weren’t already enough, alas democracy is a faulty and delusive tool in itself, and we cannot exclude, so to speak, that the criminal conspiracy headed by bankers uses it just because of this, because they take advantage of this, too. “If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.“ “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.” Regardless of how it is paraphrased and to whom it is attributed, the idea set forth is that democracy can’t fix things, and some can achieve enough power to keep them unfixed. Actually, though, it’s likely to be far worse than that then: it can be exploited to make things ever worse. This obviously does not mean democracy is bad; on the contrary, when the best tools available are defective this is quite a problem to us.

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It has been said that the problems of the group are but the sum of the problems of the individuals. And indeed the faults of democracy are based on the faults of the average humanoid. By humanoid I sarcastically mean one whose conduct does not meet the minimum requirements to ensure the survival of us all, and I’ll discuss this subject to some extent ahead in order to give you an idea of the order of magnitude of the problem. Democracy just like anything else is a human product, and as such its faults are based on human intentions, more or less honest, and on humanoid faults, no matter how product intrinsic they appear.

The point is that these faults are carefully studied, cultivated and exploited, and that they are not indulged in without dealing with the consequences. Only, this is increasingly obfuscated by the unfortunate fact that all humanoid faults add to becoming less aware, so while one sinks into such consequences, one is likely to less and less detect them as such, far less their causes and responsibilities – one’s own included.