I have long ago been wary to the point of weary, when I hear divisive rhetoric. The cuts in funding to education, which began in earnest in the mid-80's are paying off big time for those who want to keep us ignorant, and fearful. It has made it even easier to keep us divided by abstract concepts and assumptions, than at any time previous.
Racism is a learned thing that is taught to us to make us mistrust the person inside by the color of their skin outside. As overt racism is becoming passe, other 'isms' are gathering prestige of a political nature, in order to keep us more divided than united.
Noam Chomsky used the term: "Industrial Feudalism" to define our society, nationally and
globally in this day and age.Too bad that history, as it is taught in schools today, teaches nothing of feudalism and how it worked. For those who understand it, the parallels between then and now are starkly revealed: Serfs and Lords.
In order for feudalism to survive, an endless supply of serfs was required. The cheapest of labor. The Lords became their 'Protectors.' However, only the converse was true: it was the serfs who defended the castle walls of the Lords. Protecting the Protector gave rise to the illusion of being protected when in fact, we were and are, being misused against one another.
The other necessary factor, was preventing the serfs from uniting: either with the serfs of other feudal lords; or in the cases of the most powerful Lords, to keep them divided against one another.
This was accomplished through a system of honors and awards given to a select few who, although they never rose to the heights of "lord" were no longer at the bottom of the echelons and had some authority over those under them.
They could, at any point, however, be dismissed from that lofty step up, and had to work even harder in some ways, to keep their masters happy. They became estranged from their former peers who failed to see their predicament and had no sympathy for the travails of being 'upper class'.
Those mid-management types were annoyed and felt disrespected by their former peers. Jealousies, mistrusts and resentments grew. One way to rise to a higher level was to earn favor by having information to pass on to those above. This made yet another tier both above and below Middle Class. Mistrust grew. Spies, gossip, all were used to keep the people divided and not trusting of one another.
All the while, those at mid-level and below, had to work even harder just to stay one step ahead of starvation or eviction. The most important aspect of keeping underlings in line was in limiting their education. Forms of communication other than directly speaking to one another, were crude signals and symbols left in places to be found and interpreted.
The lords prospered. But, having so much wealth was never enough. They wanted more. Always more. They consolidated their turf and holdings through Marriages and by taking over the lands and properties of other lords, through battles.
They were allowed to battle others only when the king deemed it permissible. The kings wanted more also. The lords, essentially, did their bidding, like it or not. The kings were rarely seen and few knew anything about them except that they were behind the biggest walls, had the biggest military and made all the laws.
Serfs were forced to fight in battles, wherein if they won, the Lords over them had even more power, and they themselves had even less. Or, if they lost the battle, they lost everything and could end up as slaves in even more dire situations as the property of the lord that defeated their lord. The other was always worse.
Had they but known and understood then, that none of these lords or even kings had any real power, and that the authority they had and which they abused constantly, was only that which was given to them by the collective unwashed who had somehow, in some way, agreed to not trust themselves, not stand together, but to fear one another. That without these 'underlings' those over them had nothing.
Had we understood that I would like to think we would have learned to come together and to work together for the common good, rather than to slave for the Authorized powers to increase only their wealth at the cost of our own.
Fast Forward:
We are living in a world divided up by those heavy with authority. We believe the worst about people of whom we know nothing and whose culture is misrepresented to us, daily in a "Them and Us" scenario.
Greater and greater wealth is amassed by fewer and fewer who create a system that serves only themselves and which is paid for by those who derive little from it other than the misconception that we are being protected and saved by those whose power and wealth we protect from others who may or may not be trying to take it from them.
I am not surprised that we were lied into the Iraq war. I am not surprised that we were left unprotected and not warned about 9/11. That single event served to consolidate our collective fears and misunderstanding, in one massive push to invade a country that is rich in resources and unable to defend itself. Our blind trust in government as protector was used against us.
Equal and greater threats to our safety and security as a nation, abound. Greater despots, greater cruelty and mass murderers are easy to see if one but looks. North Korea has capabilities and was brandishing threats more real than any of the fictional Yellow Cake contrived by the war mongering mongols of the Bush Administration.
But we ignored North Korea. Not because we could not win, but because we can only lose. If we win, we will have conquered a nation of 23.5 Million starving people. We then must feed all of them. That alone, would bankrupt us and take a major share of our own, dwindling resources.
Factor in that we would have spent billions in military expenses, weaponry and who knows how much Halliburton, KBR, Blackwater, XE et al, would have profiteered from it. Our dead would be in the thousands or 10's of thousands. We would be overwhelmed with burying, feeding and paying for... a country with no resources that can be extracted.
The Mega Corporations, the Global International Lords of our day, pick and choose which wars to be fought based on what they can gain from it. Ignorantly, blindly, the modern day serfs fly into battle after being fed a stream of propaganda, appealing to and misguiding our patriotism, with lies, pandering to fears of annihilation, while destroying what we claim to value most: The Truth.
It is them or it is us. We know nothing about them. We have walled ourselves off from them. We fear them. It is easier to kill them.
Now, the chants begin anew: Socialism! Communism! Islamism! We fear those things. We are taught that 'socialism leads to communism'. It does not, but the fiction holds sway in the uneducated populace.
We are taught that Communism failed! What we don't realize is that Communism never existed. The peasants, serfs of their day, bought into the rantings of a cult leader of their day, who promised them unity and equality, but who delivered corruption instead. It was corruption that failed that State, not "Communism".
We Are Not "Immuned"
Politicians who disgraced our own history by pandering to the fears and inflaming the ignorant with rhetoric of "isms", and thems vs us, did so to keep us from looking at what was happening to our own government.
Yes, 'communism' failed. But Russia still stands. They call it communism, again, but it is still the same corruption that it was back in the days of Stalin, Lenin and Kruschev. And it will fail again.
Corruption kills every ism. Corruption is what is killing Capitalism. But we are not educated enough to see it. Those who do the bidding of the masters above them, so that they can keep their positions as lesser masters, again fan the flames of xenophobia and of fears to rile the masses and keep us from coming together, united in this nation, and perhaps truly seeking peace with other nations.
Corruption left unchallenged, and kept in dark secret places, will bring down our nation, our Democracy, the same as it brought down the Mighty Russian Empire and the Fall of Rome before them, and every fallen empire since.
Blind Fear: Ignorance is Bliss
Corruption prevails as we battle amongst ourselves to reveal it or to protect it. We battle those who believe it is protecting them and who believe they are protecting us by protecting the corruption that is killing our Democracy.
We are led to distractions of every sort: Media feeds us vapid celebrity antics as if they were news, and ignores the wars, such as the genocides in Sudan that will make the leader of that country very wealthy as he allows the Oil Companies to extract what they want, and pay only him.
Removing the people by starving them, mass murders, rapes, and tortures, all part of the plan of clearing the path for the masters of Oil. As these people were literally, by military, being driven out of their homes, chased down and killed, it was for the sole purpose of removing them as an impediment to the coming Oil Regime.
We are too distracted to know, too uneducated to understand. One woman, hopeful to the point of exuberant, told me:
"Those people don't have to starve now! Look!" she points to a report, "they found OIL in that country!" Her eyes were wide, and tears of joy streamed down her face. She thought that finding oil would be what would save those people? In fact, it was the discovery of those oil fields that set the genocide in motion!
But we will never war against Sudan. Sudan's 'leaders' are those who allow our Big Oil Masters to take what they want. War is reserved for those unwilling to be walked over by the Masters.
Remember: "All wars must be authorized by the Kings behind the walls."
"ExSchism" Me
Every "ism" is promoted and demonized by fiction. Fiction created by lesser masters to please those who give them access to the funds that give them comfort outside of their failed and sickened consciences. All the higher masters seek in return, is all of the resources be theirs.
This land is my land, this land is your land... but they want it to be no man's land. They want it to be theirs. This is where they create their wealth and we give it to them, free of charge, and spill our blood against our brothers and sisters to keep them in place.
Someday, the modern day serfs will learn how to educate themselves. They will lose their fears and mistrusts and realize they can and already have, survive any betrayals that come along. That the cost of not trusting one another is disunity. In that failure to unite, we continue to divide and conquor ourselves and diminish the future of our children and the children yet to come.
Education is the only cure. We must learn how to learn. We cannot be driven by media that seeks above all, to sell to us. We must look into the faces of people we don't know, and get to know them.
The internet is becoming the point of connection, of learning, sharing and understanding one
another. Social media is opening up doors and windows to enlightenment and understanding. There are those who fear the expanding of our global consciousness and they attempt, with failed tactics of fear, rumors, lies and false "patriotism" to misuse the medium and to create more fear and mistrust.I see them who market their fears and lies, as failing in the light of more and more, better, accurate and more truthful information and dialogue. I am seeing that we can overcome our fears and our ignorance and find our common ground, and realize, it was always there, it was always ours.
We have a lot of work to do. A lot of great things can be accomplished once we shine the light into our dark places and clean out the dirt that has sickened us all these many generations. We can heal, together, without fear.
First we must look into the mirror, and get to know ourselves. You look more like me, on the inside and I look more like you. We can unite in Peace.
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