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In reply to the discussion: This is the future. It doesn't include jobs for humans. [View all]johnlucas
(1,250 posts)The Greedy Elite want the world as their playground but are forced to have us around to do the dirty work they won't do.
Ultimately it comes down to this:
All People Are Selfish.
One Man or One Woman wants to have it ALL to himself/herself.
But one is weak on its own so the one makes deals with others to have the second best deal: MOST.
One can't physically beat One Million so the One manipulates the One Million to serve the interest of the One.
There might another One who wants it all to himself/herself too.
That's a threat to the original One but they make deal & begin to work in parallel.
They split the MOST amongst each other. That is where an Elite comes from.
Elite means Few.
This tag team of Ones all work together & make a series of deals with members of the One Million.
That's where the Enforcer Class comes from (protection), the Messenger Class comes from (clergy, media), & so on & so forth.
Enforcers provide a protective ring around the Ones as the Ones give a Little of the MOST to them in exchange.
They're easy to buy off & they get a boost pushing around the rest of the One Million.
They might not have the best resource power but they get pretty good positional power.
Messengers are there as another buffer to soothe & cool off the One Million.
They plant ideas in the heads of the One Million that cause the One Million to either calm down or at least split on themselves.
Anything to keep them from coming for the Ones' MOST.
They get a Little of the MOST in exchange for this service.
Might not have the best resource power but they get pretty good positional power.
For the rest of the One Million, we're here to do the dirty work for Ones' benefit.
The rest of the One Million get Fractions of Littles, Tinies, Crumbs.
The Ones want all of the rewards without all of the struggles.
The bigger the society, the more complex the hierarchy, the more elaborate the rings.
But the Ones get tired of sharing those Littles, those Tinies, those Crumbs.
In fact they even hate sharing the MOST among each other.
They want it ALL to themselves & are constantly trying to figure out how to MORE of it back.
If they had their way, they would reduce the One Million to Thousands to Hundreds to have just enough to do the dirty work but keep MOST to themselves.
If they could get it down to Tens and even Ones, that would be even better.
One still can't beat Seventy but that's better odds than going against One Million.
Even better odds going against Seven.
THAT way they can have virtually ALL but a few Littles, a few Tinies, a few Crumbs.
Technological advancement was done to stave off revolutions AND to eventually eliminate the need for the proverbial One Million.
The short term goal makes it easier for their protectors & messengers to block out the rest of the One Million.
The long term goal gets rid of protectors, messengers, & others of the One Million altogether.
LUCKILY THOUGH, Power Is Liquid.
Sometimes those of the One Million come together & scare even the Enforcers & Messengers not to mention the Ones.
So they have to share a little more of that MOST with the One Million.
Sometimes the Enforcers get tired of Enforcing & rejoin the One Million like we saw with Smedley Butler.
Sometimes the Messengers plants a Message that UNITES & fires up that One Million against the Ones.
Entertainers are especially good at this.
It's physics man!
Ones are Few. Elite are Few.
Their existence is flimsy & fragile. They're weak.
They only stand on top of us because we let them.
We don't use our power correctly.
The base of pyramid holds up the peak of the pyramid.
When the pyramid collapses that peak will be DEAD IN THE CENTER of that base.
It's all a mind game.
Technological advancement is useful but its ultimate goal is to make most of humanity redundant & obsolete.
And the elites WILL try to kill us either actively or passively.
Subverting their game either by detangling our existence from labor & having universal funds for all of us, or by keeping the technology from ever getting too good to replace us, we will live in that playground they want only for themselves.
All People Are Selfish but ALSO All People Are Weak.
That's the check that keeps these elites in balance.
You can do so much for yourself BY yourself. One can only go but so far.
You gotta team up & honor that social contract.
Some from the protective rings around those elites throw us a few bones.
Stuff like this Internet & its World Wide Web designed to track us & spy on us can ALSO be used to pass that necessary message of Unity.
Double-edged sword like everything else in life.
Just learn how to use your edge.
John Lucas