SpineyNorman
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I don't know why you're unable to understand, xes, that it's possible to believe that we're not ruled by benevolent souls and that it's not some monolithic conspiracy based on blood lines.
There are structures that ensure that the powerful remain powerful and increase their power, and the rich remain rich and increase their wealth, all at the expense of the rest of us. They don't need secret cabals to do this. The economic and political structures present in modern society do it for them.
And when you ignore this, and instead base your simplistic critique on "bad people doing bad things" you give the elites a get out. Because you're saying there's nothing wrong with the system, all we need to do is replace these bad people with goood people. And so, when the shit hits the fan, the elites have a ready made scapegoat - the jews or whatever. They can sacrifice a few of their own in order to maintain the system. And so, we get Nazi Germany. And the rich can go on getting richer, and the poor poorer.
See why, even if it wasn't based on blood lines or jews or whatever, but instead on "bad individuals" it would still be counter-productive bollocks? Because you're implying that we don't need structural change, we just need to re-shuffle the deck chairs.
There are structures that ensure that the powerful remain powerful and increase their power, and the rich remain rich and increase their wealth, all at the expense of the rest of us. They don't need secret cabals to do this. The economic and political structures present in modern society do it for them.
And when you ignore this, and instead base your simplistic critique on "bad people doing bad things" you give the elites a get out. Because you're saying there's nothing wrong with the system, all we need to do is replace these bad people with goood people. And so, when the shit hits the fan, the elites have a ready made scapegoat - the jews or whatever. They can sacrifice a few of their own in order to maintain the system. And so, we get Nazi Germany. And the rich can go on getting richer, and the poor poorer.
See why, even if it wasn't based on blood lines or jews or whatever, but instead on "bad individuals" it would still be counter-productive bollocks? Because you're implying that we don't need structural change, we just need to re-shuffle the deck chairs.