Neat stuff, Martin. I found myself considering why those we consider the Powers That Be appear to spend so much time making things worse. Your hypothesis here helps answer the question: By dividing people, by making Science into Scientism, by promoting large scams, these predatory psychopaths increase the political zone at the expense of the boring zone, making society less governable by the People. This enables their own access to power through manipulation, synthetic governance, falsification of what is real, and more. Confusion rises, unreality rises, people seek answers but find only mirrors and fake "realities", societal structures dissolve, and the resulting amorphous societal mob seeks a leader to cut through and simplify and rebuild something sane. This reconstruction often takes the form of what Rene Girard illustrated as The Scapegoat process, where someone or a minority group gets suppressed or killed (often with the direct encouragement by a predatory leader or group), creating a collective murder that enables the society to restructure itself from a mob (which the predators helped to create by expanding the political zone at the expense of the settled portion of a tribe or civilization) back into a functioning society under new leadership (controlled by the predators). Civilization works best when the political zone seeks to make political zone issues resolvable into the boring zone on a regular basis. One system that the Romans used to do this was the Dictator, Cincinnatus being the most famous one: Roman society would get way out of whack, to the point where the standard government could no longer work, and a Dictator would be brought in to cut through the mess and settle things fairly and in accordance with sane standards, effectively making many things boring again. Then he would go back to his farm, and the previous method of governance would be reinstated and found to be workable again.
Your observations and ideas should be required reading and/or semester courses for students majoring in Political Science, Business, and Law !
"Will be required"......make it so. hugs.
Neat stuff, Martin. I found myself considering why those we consider the Powers That Be appear to spend so much time making things worse. Your hypothesis here helps answer the question: By dividing people, by making Science into Scientism, by promoting large scams, these predatory psychopaths increase the political zone at the expense of the boring zone, making society less governable by the People. This enables their own access to power through manipulation, synthetic governance, falsification of what is real, and more. Confusion rises, unreality rises, people seek answers but find only mirrors and fake "realities", societal structures dissolve, and the resulting amorphous societal mob seeks a leader to cut through and simplify and rebuild something sane. This reconstruction often takes the form of what Rene Girard illustrated as The Scapegoat process, where someone or a minority group gets suppressed or killed (often with the direct encouragement by a predatory leader or group), creating a collective murder that enables the society to restructure itself from a mob (which the predators helped to create by expanding the political zone at the expense of the settled portion of a tribe or civilization) back into a functioning society under new leadership (controlled by the predators). Civilization works best when the political zone seeks to make political zone issues resolvable into the boring zone on a regular basis. One system that the Romans used to do this was the Dictator, Cincinnatus being the most famous one: Roman society would get way out of whack, to the point where the standard government could no longer work, and a Dictator would be brought in to cut through the mess and settle things fairly and in accordance with sane standards, effectively making many things boring again. Then he would go back to his farm, and the previous method of governance would be reinstated and found to be workable again.
Witter Bynner interpretation tao te'ching, 1944, lesson 38
A man of sure fitness, without making a point of his fitness,
Stays fit;
A man of unsure fitness, assuming an appearance of fitness,
Becomes unfit.
The man of sure fitness never makes an act of it
Nor considers what it may profit him;
The man of unsure fitness makes an act of it
And considers what it may profit him.
However a man with a kind heart proceed,
He forgets what it may profit him;
However a man with a just mind proceed,
He remembers what it may profit him;
However a man of conventional conduct proceed, if he be not complied with
Out goes his fist to enforce compliance.
Here is what happens:
Losing the way of life, men rely first on their fitness;
Losing fitness, they turn to kindness;
Losing kindness, they turn to justness;
Losing justness, they turn to convention.
Conventions are fealty and honesty gone to waste,
They are the entrance of disorder.
False teachers of life use flowery words
And start nonsense.
The man of stamina stays with the root
Below the tapering,
Stays with the fruit
Beyond the flowering:
He has his no and he has his yes.
"Will be required"......and so it is.
Thanks George.