The Hollowed Out Social Bond, 4

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.