THE NATURE OF THE OLIGARCHY

       So, most of Thursday's news-cycle has been a firestorm of further controversy over the proposed Budget Bill; highlighted by a Social Media feud between co-Presidents Musk and Trump. Whether this whole argument is a meltdown between the two US leaders (as most believe), or a show staged for public consumption (as some suspect), is really immaterial. Either way, the whole affair should expose even the most apathetic Americans to the stark reality of what kinds of characters hold political and economic power in the US. 

     At any rate, the 'feud' is distracting attention away from some of the minor details of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill. Small matters, for example, like exponential expansions of the surveillance state, banning States from regulating AI, massive wealth-transfers to Wall Street interests, usurpation of the Constitutional authority of the Judiciary, etc., most likely won't attract as much attention now while the interests backing them fan public frenzy in another direction. 

       The Social Media exchanges between these two highlights the results of irresponsible, unaccountable power such as American 'leaders' have come to hold in our society. The paroxysms of rage pouring forth are fairly typical of the reaction that most political leaders, corporate executives, school administrators, etc. express whenever their will is thwarted. All of them reach these positions by sheer unscrupulousness, nepotism, and back-stabbing; and they hold them by both bribery and by ruthlessly cutting down anybody whose honesty or intelligence proves a threat to them. They are typically surrounded in these positions by hired flatterers and ambitious sycophants who keep their bloated egos inflated to the point where most of them truly imagine themselves a race of supermen; indeed as earthly gods even though none of them either think or behave in any way one would associate with godly attributes.

     Judging by the online commentary, however, worship of these two powerful men isn't limited to those in their inner circles. Bedazzled by wealth and celebrity, too many Americans actually buy into the Public Relations packaging and forget that these people are mortal men like themselves. In fact, many aren't even the equals of ordinary men. If, for example, Elon Musk hadn't inherited his wealth and made the right connections, he would be indistinguishable from any other strung-out drug addict or mental case that one encounters on city streets: boasting about his superior intelligence that nobody recognizes; his plans to colonize Mars; his goal of inseminating the world's most beautiful women to create a Master Race, and so forth. What could be said of Musk could be said of just about any of the other of the circles that he moves among. Postmodern America is becoming/has become a society much like the Royal-controlled tyrannies of the Middle Ages where the only thing separating the highest and lowest elements in character are their bank accounts and media profiles. Then, as now, both work in a sort of perverse tandem: with one element holding all the wealth and power and the other believing itself entitled to the same; while between them lies the majority who are actually holding things together by their productivity and generally decent behavior.

     

      The operatives and strategists working for these self-styled 'Elites' universally despise the mass-awakening of humanity to its Rights that took place during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. However, those ideals still have a firm hold in Western Culture, and so the Elites' old methods of imposing their will upon the populace no longer work; hence they've incorporated pseudo-democratic tactics to create the illusion that they are part of a populist movement. Crony-Capitalism they call the 'Free Market;' Police-State Terrorism is called 'National Security;' the Great Reset is resold as 'American Exceptionalism;' the Cultural Marxist philosophy of the Long March Through the Institutions is reframed as 'Christian Nationalism;' and so forth. 

     Royals once deceived us with the 'Divine Right of Kings,' Plutocrats did the same with 'Social Darwinism' and our modern Techno-Fascists have simply fused the two into a Christian-veneered Scientism. We must do as our forefathers did---start questioning what we're being told and who's telling us so---and eject these parasites from positions of power if we hope to regain our liberties and our humanity again.