Update: Evil, The Corporate State And Totalitarian Cults

I want to remark one more time about my second to last post and the events in Washington DC before moving onto the next post. 

I’ve noted on here that to be human is to be a hypocrite. But, we are truly a nation of hypocrites.  I have enough internet feeds on what is happening in our nation to understand the tone and self-righteous indignation of nearly every slice of society. That hypocrisy is rooted in pure ignorance.  We heard all summer about the hypocrisy of Democrats, which is very true. But, now we see the hypocrisy of the Republicans, which is equally true. The blind spots of the ego are endless.

In a hierarchical society so grossly controlled by corporate capitalism and political parties, no one is responsible for their beliefs or their behavior except those who are exploited or suffer the consequences.  That is never the corporate executive or CEO, the corporate media or politicians.  And, that is a major reason why the system is collapsing. Mind you, this will not be found anywhere else on the state of modern corporate capitalist society. It’s either not well-understood or it’s subverted if anyone who did understand, tried to make it a mainstream conversation.

When the vast majority of Republicans and some number of Democrats voted to send millions of jobs to Mexico, who suffered the consequences? Ditto with China? Vietnam? India? Europe? Democracy suffered the consequences.  The American working class suffered the consequences.  Both lost good-paying jobs, retirement plans and some ability to live above the need for government assistance. Our society lost its resilience and ability to deal with any type of shock or disaster.  When Donald Trump incites citizens with lies or distortions about voter fraud, and some of them bring Confederate flags, guns and molotov cocktails to Washington DC, who suffers the consequences?  When Fox News or MSNBC perpetuates half facts or purposefully deceives in order to create false narratives and belief systems or perpetuate ignorance, who suffers the consequences?  When a CEO making millions of dollars slashes wages or sends factories to China and destroys people’s lives, who suffers the consequences?  When Wall Street commits massive fraud that results in millions of Americans being economically-damaged, who suffers the consequences?  When Americans believe what corporations, politicians and their favorite media tells them, who suffers the consequences? You do. I do. Democracy does. Those at the bottom of the hierarchical social pyramid do. 

Who in this world is personally responsible for any of their actions?  Republicans and corporations tell you that they are personally responsible because they work for their living.  This is utter horseshit.  Who?  No one.  And, I’ll tell you why.

Millions upon millions of Americans believe bat-shit nonsense because they were told to believe this by someone seeking dominion or power, be it economic, money or political power.  Let me cite a few examples below. 

Fox News spins up that there was election fraud.  They have zero incontrovertible facts. If they did, they would present them through investigative journalism. But, instead they rely on Trump and his Nazi-esque Big Lies.  Courts are presented legal challenges yet literally none of these challenges provide enough evidence to pursue legal recourse.  So, now, it has turned into a big conspiracy. 40% of Republicans “believe” there is election fraud.  Yet, none of them have any hard evidence worthy of a court room.  A huge percentage of them have no fukcign idea what they are talking about. Does that mean there was absolutely no fraud? Of course not. There has been election fraud in the US since the beginnings of our nation.  Usually local and petty to feed the machine.  Republicans and Democrats commit fraud by gerrymandering.  Republicans and Democrats commit fraud by conspiring to keep other parties from participating in elections.  But, as it pertains to the 2020 presidential election, what it does mean is you are being told what to believe.  And, no one is holding you (meaning anyone perpetuating this)accountable for perpetuating conspiratorial beliefs. Why? Because you lead an insular life of narcissistic tribalism where the only feedback you receive is from people who think like you and thus confirm your beliefs.  Even Google tailors your searches to your beliefs., this reinforcing ignorance.  This happens every day in the politicization of our nation by the military, academia, corporations, corporate media and politicians on both sides.

Here’s an even more insidious example that happened with many of the protesters who went to Washington DC.  Many of Trump rally supporters are the most rabid adherents of his cult of personality. Those most manipulated by his power of suggestion, conspiracies and paranoia.  QAnon kooks and “stop the steal” conspiracy believers have put forth this notion of a national uprising where Trump is their savior anointed by God.  And, that we are in some Biblical apocalyptic moment.  This is magical thinking and the result of the power of evil to manipulate the minds of those most vulnerable.  In a hierarchical control system such as corporate capitalism and political parties, it is required to keep the mass of population ignorant so that they will accept their lot in life.  To be told by those at the top what their fate is. (I’m sending your job to China. I’m taxing your earnings or home to transfer it to corporations, I’m forcing you to re-skill yourself because I’ve decided your jobs and family don’t matter, etc.)  Those on the receiving end of this are generally good and decent people who have been exploited by class. But, they often rely on conspiracy and paranoia in lieu of data, objective reality or science because the system wishes to keep them ignorant about how society and our economy operates.  Then we have the flip side where many near the top or entitled in hierarchical society are sanctimonious in their finger wagging at the actions of Trump supporters or Black Americans, both of whom are suffering the same fate.  Mostly good people that have been given the shaft by a system of forced economic competition and violence such as corporate capitalism.  These are the mudsill people or useless eaters as the capitalist elites have historically labeled them.  And, they are the class of people that corporate capitalism and political elites have often sacrificed through various methods such as economic imprisonment, poor houses, debtor’s prisons, indentured servitude, prison and penal colonies, eugenics, mass genocidal wars, etc.  They often have no careers, no retirements, no entitlement of hierarchy but grow the food (pick the cotton), clean the toilets and provide the services(servants) for those of corporate, military, academic, corporate media and political entitlement.  They exist for one reason and one reason only in the mind of the entitled; to provide entitlement to those who worship careerism and who rise to the top of a system that defeats individual emotional and spiritual growth. That relies on the masses for their wealth, careers and titles. 

This is all because there is no common good or no social contract, an enlightenment principle, underpinning American society.  And, there never has been.  Our society has always been controlled by hierarchical power rather than direct or even republican democracy.  And, it’s a major reason why I have consistently agitated for direct democracy, an economic constitution, power restored to communities and citizens from corporations (and the federal and state governments corporations have devoured), etc.  It’s a major reason I’ve been writing of its coming collapse for so long. With a crisis date of 2022. (We shall see.)

We have an entire nation who is willing to die for lies and bullshit people tell themselves. How many rabid Fox News viewers watch MSNBC or CNN with an open mind to validate their beliefs?  Or vice versa?  Or objectively reject those beliefs as propaganda and lies they are willing to believe? How many people even recognize how to take a belief and deconstruct it into a rational statement that can then be objectively evaluated for completeness or accuracy?  From what I see in the mainstream, almost no one.  That includes the political half wits in Washington, the media, the war machine and those that are manipulated by the system. These types of crazy beliefs are perpetuated because someone in a position of entitlement wants them to be perpetuated.  And, that is true for all politicized belief systems in our nation. And, the world.

Karl Popper is one of the most brilliant thinkers of the last one hundred years.  He’s also one of two people who I can state have properly defined what science is and isn’t.  He applied this same form of philosophical reasoning to identify objective reality versus belief systems or the endless bullshit our egos tell us.  Are Americans taught this ability?  Wouldn’t a free society that wishes to remain free anticipate that education is about preparing citizens to be productive defenders of democracy?  Wouldn’t reasoning and science be part of that?  Like the ancient Greeks who viewed liberal arts education as a requirement for citizens to be defenders of a free and democratic society that embraced the common good.  Instead, the corporate state defines education as being able to read a seventh grade instruction manual to serve your corporate masters.

But, a real education, one that prepares you to defend your freedom and the common good with science, reason, rhetoric, mathematics, the arts, etc.  isn’t how hierarchical systems work. Hierarchical systems and institutionalization, which most specifically in our case is corporate capitalism, is how evil controls and manipulates the masses.  It’s how tyranny is foisted upon humanity. And, as noted on here endlessly over the years, it’s a precursor to social and economic crisis as people continue to awaken to reality.

The new Age of Enlightenment continues. Bad news for the corporate state and its obedient adherents.

Next up, the magical thinking of America’s professional class.