The counter-terrorism programs being developed around the
world, especially in the developed (meaning rich) countries, are simply
preparation for the social unrest that will come with the full implementation
of elite plans for domination of the majority of the human population. Nothing else will work.
Either the economic elite dominates and controls the
consumption and general behavior of the masses or the great wealth and impunity
of the elite must be forfeit and a broad socialism with severe limits on
individual wealth and power created (the possible means for this being
unclear). However, the elite have
no intention of becoming part of an egalitarian society.
The human world has become polarized beyond comprehension –
and so is not comprehended. There
are a few millions of people who have not the slightest recognition that there
are fully human others with lives of value equal to their own, but living very
close to the margins of biological survival. To most of the rich, not being rich is ultimately
disqualifying of any worthiness.
Impunity is the seedbed for this form of insanity.
For the billions of people who live close to the daily toil
required to supply basic needs, the lives of the super-rich are incomprehensible,
but, through a twisting path of reasoning, enviable. It seems simple: “I have
just enough or nearly enough to get by, it must be great to have anything and
everything whenever you want it.”
And so, the Great Many feel somehow connected to the super-rich through
this “understanding.”
What these billions don’t understand is that the economic
elite think of them as so many tons of metal ore, as so many barrels of oil to
be moved around, as so many hours of labor to be used or as so many pounds of
meat to be packaged and delivered. There is nothing about “ordinary” lives that
is of the slightest interest to the elite other than their actions in the
economy: units of work, units of consumption and, increasingly, units of
environmental degradation. Truly,
the lives of the Great Many warrant no more interest than the lives of chickens
or pigs on factory farms; they are to be sustained, and numbered, to create
effective levels of production and consumption, period, full stop.
So, what would be the response to an insurrection of the
chickens or the pigs? Impossible!
They are all in cages slightly larger than their bodies, they have no capacity
or means for creating a plan or organizing an action; the individual animal
that is too much trouble (or non-productive) is killed. But, if the pigs could think it
through?
For the Great Many to be fully and properly brought to
“their role” in supporting the final stages of social development (the absolute
impunity) of the economic elite, a number of problems need to be resolved:
• primarily, humans cannot be kept in any useful way in the
conditions, and with the controls, of factory farms;
• they are both the productive and the consuming components of the economy from which
wealth can be extracted, the engines of wealth and sycophants to superiority ;
• they are capable of independent action and therefore can
act in opposition to the wishes of the elite;
• historically humans kept in economically depressed
conditions periodically overthrow the political and economic forces limiting
the expectations they have for how life is to be lived;
• even in depressed conditions, forceful people develop who
grasp the realities of their situation, people who can communicate and organize
a response to suppression and oppression;
• and the present massive human presence and action on the
earth’s productive and protective systems endanger, not only all life on the
earth, but the future of elite lifestyles.
You can count on it; the intellectuals among the elite have
already made this list. The
conclusions are obvious: the Great Many will, by the simple individual action
of trying to stay alive or with the organized action of revolution, challenge
the authority of the economic elites to control the earth’s wealth and to
control their lives. Given the
possibility that various regions might undergo rapid destabilizing climate
change or that economic systems might fail to deliver goods and services to
people who are unable to supply even the minimal requirements for survival, the
nature and scope of the mass response is unknown.
There are broadly, only two responses: one is to use the
vast resources accumulated by the economic elite to study and address the
issues of human population, consumption and pollution with the intention of ameliorating
dangers to the human and ecological future. This would be based in the generally held view that the
earth is a community of common need and purpose.
The second response would be to develop the power to defeat,
by any means necessary, both the disorganized and the organized challenges to
elite control of resources, wealth and domination, by the common human
animal. This would be based on the
view that the earth can only support so much consumption and that the power to
take resources is sufficient justification for doing so.
It is quite clear which of these directions is coming to
predominate. Even as hundreds of
thousands of people are engaged in humanitarian efforts of various efficacy,
millions and millions are being trained and equipped for martial action against
“terrorists,” “insurgents,” “environmentalists,” “activists,” “dissidents,”
“militants,” “socialists,” “Maoists,” “jihadis,” “investigative journalists.”
and “communists.”
Surveillance is reaching incomprehensible levels; the
possibility of collecting, storing and being able to evaluate data on almost
every human movement and recorded thought is tantalizing the elite into the
expenditure of many billions of dollars (representing billions of hours of
labor stolen and directed away from sustaining and ecologically suitable
purposes). Add to that the massive
expenditures on the US military and the increasing integration with police and
prison systems that cannot even name a worthy enemy – the only enemy, even on
the far horizon, for which such power is suited is general insurrection.
The model is long established. The rich family in town “owns” the local sheriff; the
political bosses are paid off by the wealthy who use police authority to quash
union organizing. It is only being
scaled up to the world level.
There is simply no longer any question but that a cabal of those who
control the greatest concentrations of the world’s wealth are preparing for a
potential apocalyptic future by purchasing the governments of various nations
and, thereby, buying the military power to defend themselves and their
interests against the people.
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