ELITE POWER IS SOURCE OF DESTRUCTION !!!
Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 11:28 am
Source: http://notsylvia.wordpress.com/2009/08/ ... struction/
August 1, 2009 by Notsilvia Night
“Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887
Marxism claims, that the motive for the capitalists´class war against the working class is greed for money. According to this ideology the capitalists only seek power in order to protect their wealth and their comfortable life-style they fear to loose, if wealth would be distributed more equally.
But how much money do you need to live a comfortable life?
A person with an unearned yearly income of a million $$ will already be able to afford all the comforts he could ever wish for. Sure, there are expensive objects or services rich people have been after, works of art, yachts worth several millions. But they serve mainly as status symbols. Their prices are purely driven by demand of those who´ve got too much. These objects don´t actually improve life´s comfort. Neither do crazy parties where risottos with actual gold-flakes are served.
You don´t need billions to buy things.
Yearning for luxuries might be the motive for a bank-robber, it never was the main driving force behind the capitalist banker. Greed for power is a driving force in and of itself not a means to an end. It´s the strongest force in capitalism.
In today´s capitalism the most powerful and politically influential people aren´t the ones who actually own physical wealth, like land, real-estate and the means of production. The value of their properties can be easily manipulated up and down by far more powerful individuals. The real power lies with those who are in control of the money creation process, the bankers. They control all trade, all credit and through their credit all the means of production, even while they do not legally own them.
While the Marxists didn´t fully understand the destructive force of power and control, Marxist communism from the beginning became a failed endeavor.
The use or abuse of power over people, is less dependent on who legally owns the “means of production” or the resources, it rather depends on who and how many control those means and resources. A group of party-leaders in control of state-owned industries have just as much power concentrated into their hands as the board of directors of a large corporation.
But experience shows, that power is addictive, and it seems to work like a mind-altering drug.
The powerful soon start to believe, that they need to shape the world in their own image or better the image of their particular world-view. Shortly thereafter they inevitably develop a superiority-complex. In their minds they become the only ones who know what is right for the people under their control and for the world as a whole.
The more total their power over others becomes , the less empathy they can feel for those they control.
The powerful believe, they need to force compliance on everyone at any cost. They see critics and resistors as evil, as obstacles for achieving their aims of protecting “the greater good”, an evil which must be fought at any cost.
The powerful see themselves as the only ones reasonable enough to understand the “greater good” and what must be done to achieve it.
For communist ideologists this “greater good” might be the creation of a new less self-interested man, a creation facilitated by an enforced reeducation process.
For fascists the “greater good” might be the strengthening of national power, or the preservation and strengthening of the own “superior” race.
For today´s western power elites there are two causes they use for the justification of their actions:
The “greater good” is either “the protection of the planet” from the menace of human destruction brought on by human “overpopulation” or it is the aim of humanity´s “self-evolution”, the creation of a new and improved human model, a “Homo Superior”.
Some ideologies are clearly inhumane.
But why would people resist the control of the powerful, if the ideology seems initially so humanistic? Communism, for instance, strives to distribute work, resources and the products of production equally among the people. It intends to create a smooth and well-run system which eventually was supposed to fulfill everyone´s needs perfectly. Why did the populations reject such a system?
Because the theory was fine, but in reality it didn´t work like this.
A system organized by a far-away authoritarian power-center never succeeds in putting a beautiful theory into a livable reality.
It who tries to control everyone and everything, and still cannot run smoothly and effectively, no matter how smart or well-meaning it´s leaders might be.
In human reality no far-away bureaucracy can foresee all eventualities, make provisions for all local social, environmental, cultural or economic conditions.
The larger a society becomes, the more complex it will be. It´s impossible to create a single working pattern for a complex system. Every imposed pattern will make the system less flexible, working less efficiently.
The reason is that patterns imposed from the outside will pretty much suffocate human initiative and ingenuity. Individuals who try to improve things, adapt them to local conditions will kick against a bureaucratic brick wall. For the local bureaucrats will be under pressure from their superiors in the power pyramid to uphold the rules set by the far-away power-center.
Some of the so frustrated people will become angry, others will soon become passive and uninterested. When power-elites become aware of anger and non-cooperation within the population, they will become more and more paranoid and hostile towards the general population. They will take more punitive measures against perceived offenders. They will try to monitor potential resistors even better to preemptively prevent any successful opposition. And bit by bit the elites´ power becomes ever more oppressive and suffocating for the general population.
Today´s western power-elites have slowly accumulated their enormous powers under the disguise of “democracy” by the manipulation of information. “Democracy” has become an Orwellian misnomer. Ordinary people have next to no power in this system any more and in recent years they also have lost many of the rights which might protect them from the abuse of power by the elitist system.
But this manipulative power-system is on the verge of breaking down. The internet is destroying it´s disguise, it´s protection by the means of secrecy. At the moment the western elites are trying to replace the pseudo-democracy with a more brutal system of power-projection: Corporate Fascism and Full-Spectrum-Dominance by electronically monitoring everyone and everything.
The current system is driving us into endless smaller wars. The next step will lead us to WWIII, a catastrophe where nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of mass-destruction could be used, as the PNAC-papers suggest.
It´s quite clear from their actions and their writings that western power-elites, the financial, the corporate and the military elites, together with their subserviant “intellectuals” and politicians, have no regard whatsoever for the value of human life, but neither had other power-elites in history.
Fascist and communist empires killed, maimed and tortured hundreds of millions in the past.
Whatever the original ideology, too much power in the hands of too few, will inevitably lead to terrible suffering of far too many.
The problem lies not so much in the actual ownership of productive property or with any motivating political ideology, it lies far more in the destructive force of accumulated power in the hands of any kind of elites.
August 1, 2009 by Notsilvia Night
“Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887
Marxism claims, that the motive for the capitalists´class war against the working class is greed for money. According to this ideology the capitalists only seek power in order to protect their wealth and their comfortable life-style they fear to loose, if wealth would be distributed more equally.
But how much money do you need to live a comfortable life?
A person with an unearned yearly income of a million $$ will already be able to afford all the comforts he could ever wish for. Sure, there are expensive objects or services rich people have been after, works of art, yachts worth several millions. But they serve mainly as status symbols. Their prices are purely driven by demand of those who´ve got too much. These objects don´t actually improve life´s comfort. Neither do crazy parties where risottos with actual gold-flakes are served.
You don´t need billions to buy things.
Yearning for luxuries might be the motive for a bank-robber, it never was the main driving force behind the capitalist banker. Greed for power is a driving force in and of itself not a means to an end. It´s the strongest force in capitalism.
In today´s capitalism the most powerful and politically influential people aren´t the ones who actually own physical wealth, like land, real-estate and the means of production. The value of their properties can be easily manipulated up and down by far more powerful individuals. The real power lies with those who are in control of the money creation process, the bankers. They control all trade, all credit and through their credit all the means of production, even while they do not legally own them.
While the Marxists didn´t fully understand the destructive force of power and control, Marxist communism from the beginning became a failed endeavor.
The use or abuse of power over people, is less dependent on who legally owns the “means of production” or the resources, it rather depends on who and how many control those means and resources. A group of party-leaders in control of state-owned industries have just as much power concentrated into their hands as the board of directors of a large corporation.
But experience shows, that power is addictive, and it seems to work like a mind-altering drug.
The powerful soon start to believe, that they need to shape the world in their own image or better the image of their particular world-view. Shortly thereafter they inevitably develop a superiority-complex. In their minds they become the only ones who know what is right for the people under their control and for the world as a whole.
The more total their power over others becomes , the less empathy they can feel for those they control.
The powerful believe, they need to force compliance on everyone at any cost. They see critics and resistors as evil, as obstacles for achieving their aims of protecting “the greater good”, an evil which must be fought at any cost.
The powerful see themselves as the only ones reasonable enough to understand the “greater good” and what must be done to achieve it.
For communist ideologists this “greater good” might be the creation of a new less self-interested man, a creation facilitated by an enforced reeducation process.
For fascists the “greater good” might be the strengthening of national power, or the preservation and strengthening of the own “superior” race.
For today´s western power elites there are two causes they use for the justification of their actions:
The “greater good” is either “the protection of the planet” from the menace of human destruction brought on by human “overpopulation” or it is the aim of humanity´s “self-evolution”, the creation of a new and improved human model, a “Homo Superior”.
Some ideologies are clearly inhumane.
But why would people resist the control of the powerful, if the ideology seems initially so humanistic? Communism, for instance, strives to distribute work, resources and the products of production equally among the people. It intends to create a smooth and well-run system which eventually was supposed to fulfill everyone´s needs perfectly. Why did the populations reject such a system?
Because the theory was fine, but in reality it didn´t work like this.
A system organized by a far-away authoritarian power-center never succeeds in putting a beautiful theory into a livable reality.
It who tries to control everyone and everything, and still cannot run smoothly and effectively, no matter how smart or well-meaning it´s leaders might be.
In human reality no far-away bureaucracy can foresee all eventualities, make provisions for all local social, environmental, cultural or economic conditions.
The larger a society becomes, the more complex it will be. It´s impossible to create a single working pattern for a complex system. Every imposed pattern will make the system less flexible, working less efficiently.
The reason is that patterns imposed from the outside will pretty much suffocate human initiative and ingenuity. Individuals who try to improve things, adapt them to local conditions will kick against a bureaucratic brick wall. For the local bureaucrats will be under pressure from their superiors in the power pyramid to uphold the rules set by the far-away power-center.
Some of the so frustrated people will become angry, others will soon become passive and uninterested. When power-elites become aware of anger and non-cooperation within the population, they will become more and more paranoid and hostile towards the general population. They will take more punitive measures against perceived offenders. They will try to monitor potential resistors even better to preemptively prevent any successful opposition. And bit by bit the elites´ power becomes ever more oppressive and suffocating for the general population.
Today´s western power-elites have slowly accumulated their enormous powers under the disguise of “democracy” by the manipulation of information. “Democracy” has become an Orwellian misnomer. Ordinary people have next to no power in this system any more and in recent years they also have lost many of the rights which might protect them from the abuse of power by the elitist system.
But this manipulative power-system is on the verge of breaking down. The internet is destroying it´s disguise, it´s protection by the means of secrecy. At the moment the western elites are trying to replace the pseudo-democracy with a more brutal system of power-projection: Corporate Fascism and Full-Spectrum-Dominance by electronically monitoring everyone and everything.
The current system is driving us into endless smaller wars. The next step will lead us to WWIII, a catastrophe where nuclear, biological or chemical weapons of mass-destruction could be used, as the PNAC-papers suggest.
It´s quite clear from their actions and their writings that western power-elites, the financial, the corporate and the military elites, together with their subserviant “intellectuals” and politicians, have no regard whatsoever for the value of human life, but neither had other power-elites in history.
Fascist and communist empires killed, maimed and tortured hundreds of millions in the past.
Whatever the original ideology, too much power in the hands of too few, will inevitably lead to terrible suffering of far too many.
The problem lies not so much in the actual ownership of productive property or with any motivating political ideology, it lies far more in the destructive force of accumulated power in the hands of any kind of elites.