Audacious Oligarchy: The Rules Are For the Little People
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 11:50
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“Audacious Oligarchy:
The Rules Are For the Little People”
by Jesse
“The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.”
- George Orwell
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“We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.”
- Jimmy Carter
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“Financial predators are usually narcissistic and audacious. They regularly have an extreme sense of entitlement coupled with high self-efficacy. Many of them have a charismatic quality and are preternaturally persuasive. Financial predators are commonly shameless and quite adept serial liars.They perceive themselves having near unlimited guile and resourcefulness to extricate themselves out of any compromising situations.”
- Russ Alan Prince, “Forbes”
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“Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and crooked. And they are creating a society in which they can commit hugely damaging economic crimes with impunity, and in which only children of the wealthy have the opportunity to become successful. That’s what I have a problem with.”
Charles Ferguson, “Predator Nation”
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“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. Intellectual myopia, often called stupidity, is no doubt a reason. But the privileged also feel that their privileges, however egregious they may seem to others, are a solemn, basic, God-given right. The sensitivity of the poor to injustice is a trivial thing compared with that of the rich.”
- John Kenneth Galbraith
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“I cannot stress enough that this elitist attitude towards society is a learned mindset, that comes with a sense of extreme entitlement, and not some inherited tendency. As it succeeds it can become contagious among those who are morally weak and easily influenced. Who would not be tempted to believe people when they tell them that because of where they went to school and who they know that they are special, and entitled to bend the rules for their own benefit?
And unfortunately the corrupting power of easy money is in its ascendancy in US society, now as it has been at certain times in the past, and is to be found in the halls of established power on both sides of the aisle. The oligarchy funds think tanks and personalities to persuade and lure in the disgruntled and the gullible in order to clear the way for the domination of society by a powerful and wealthy few.”
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“The problem is not that we do not know what to do in order to revitalize and reform the economy, which has so badly lost its way beginning at least the 1980s. The problem is that those with power and influence, and their servants and enablers, do not wish to change. They have worked very hard and spent a great deal of money to get things exactly the way that they are. It was a decades long campaign to overturn all the protections and safeguards that were instituted after the Great Depression in reforms of The New Deal. And so they cannot even admit that there is a problem, much less identify the real source of the problem. And they will certainly not do anything meaningful to address it, at least voluntarily.
This is the credibility trap in which we are now caught. And it is leading us into madness. Why do we seem to love lies and the hatred of others so much? Why do we repeat the extravagant pronouncements of conmen, and hate the truth? Hate goodness, and justice?
Because although we like to think that we are new, and different, and the epitome of all that is human progress and evolution, in fact we are just deluded. We are no different or better or stronger than any others. We are not new, or special, or exceptional as we are, more so than any other that we may look down upon, and even despise.
No one can serve two masters, for they will be devoted to one, and despise the other. If they allow themselves to be dishonest in small things, they will be faithless in those things that truly matter, that have a lasting consequence. It is a madness. And while people grow mad in herds, they only come back to their senses, one at a time. And the love of most will grow cold.
This will end. But it is going to end badly for many. You know what to do. But we are such faithless cheats and swindlers that we convince ourselves that we do not, because we do not wish to do what we have been told to do, and has been written on our hearts. Greed and pride kill. Love covers a multitude of sins.”
Source: http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2019/09/audacious-oligarchy-rules-are-for.html
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