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@ Oberith
2023-04-02 01:57:42I've spent years attributing genuine malice to the actions of plutocrats, governmental leader types and general societal elites. I've watched current events unfold, studied abuse of power in the past and seen the seemingly endless cycle of fealty leading to "loyalty" transmuting to law abiding and in all cases reinforced by threat of pain if a contrite obedience wasn't observed by most.
I think I was wrong about this simple one sided, relatively flat, dominance described above. Don't get me wrong, there's certainly an observable concentration of sociopaths at the top of the economic ladder. Monster Magnet said it best, "if I don't get my bath I take it out on the slaves" but, I've come to suspect that there are significantly fewer true psychopaths at the top and, rather, a very thick and stodgy maelstrom of power imposters, middle managers, toadies if you will, who've not really been given any power, but are compensated mightily and allowed to associate with the truly powerful, for the one simple task of ++communicating and enforcing policy++ that has been developed by others.
In this series of posts I'll attempt to find out if this hypothesis is classically defensible. I'll look for support and also find untenable this claim of a massive and largely inept management class scurrying around, attempt to satiate their leaders. I'll further attempt to define who these leaders are and do so in as un-conspiratorial a fashion as possible.
The History is going to begin with 1000 AD, break the entire world down into continental Asia, The Islamic World including expansion into Africa, Europe (or Christendom) and cover what can be verifies concerning the Americas, both North and South.
It seems important to understand how far we've come from vassals of perpetually warring states, all in the name of expansion, and then outline how, even in this modern age, truly right on the edge of a functioning AGI, that we still fall into these almost pre-ordained class systems.
Maybe if we understand it better, we can move past it. Just maybe.