We spend our lives listening to trusted
"authorities" preaching the value of democracy and freedom, the role
of freedom of the press and expression, but what they really teach us is to
comply with the only form of freedom that really matters, the freedom to use money
as a tool to limit the access to goods and services that should be in the
public domain. Unrestricted private investment is the definition of freedom in
the era of finance capitalism, democracy for the few who benefit from the
privatization of what was once part of the commons.
The closer we get to the base of the social
pyramid, the more our ability to influence structural changes in society
diminishes.
Citizens at the base of the social pyramid have to
organize themselves in groups, movements, parties, unions, etc., to regain
bargaining power to demand effective changes. Individually, we have no
political voice, class consciousness is the remedy against isolation and social
atomization and the awakening to participatory politics for the collective
struggle to consolidate our individual rights and freedoms.
Capitalist individualism denies basic rights and
freedoms to the many while ensuring democracy for the few. Ecosocialism
guarantees the rights and freedoms to people, but also to the rest of the
living community while respecting the ecosystems and habitats of planet Earth,
because it is not just about us, humanity. Who wants a planet where nothing remains
but a dystopian transhumanist civilization?
“Liberals” like to sell the idea of a society composed of free citizens who master
their destiny, as if the economic-financial political system of a class society
was organized to guarantee equal opportunities to all citizens.
It all boils down to individual choices, based on
the idea that it is always possible to overcome social disadvantages with
willpower.
The influence of family support is structural for
the formation of the child's personality with adequate emotional support.
Parents must have the knowledge, availability and
sensitivity to educate a child so that their potential can flourish. Only a
functional family with financial means has real possibilities of opening
horizons to the child at an early stage and I am not referring to overloading
the child with extracurricular activities, that is manifestly stupid, I am
referring to the sensitivity to assess the child's evolution in terms of
tastes, tendencies, intellectual curiosity, artistic abilities and others, this
is what is crucial for a harmonious development.
Most citizens reach adulthood without having the
slightest idea of the diversity of academic choices and career opportunities that exist
due to the sociocultural limitations of the environment where they grew up and
the people with whom they interacted and related.
Many young people and adults may know about the
existence of “uncommon” professional options and careers, but for reasons of
social status and various constraints they believe that they are beyond their
reach, some will realize this later as they deepen their knowledge and
understanding of what society really is, but for most of them there is already
to much at stake for a drastic life change. Again, the exceptions confirm the rule.
In economically disadvantaged and culturally
limited families, generally less attentive to the details of the needs of
children and young people under their responsibility, they tend to prioritize
academic and/or professional choices aimed to fit the job market.
Personal fulfillment is indelibly associated with
economic achievements, the more steps one manages to climb on the social
ladder, the more pride one feels because in the context of a commodified
consumer society, everything boils down to the financial availability to
acquire the goods and services that most citizens and families want enjoy.
The professional careers choices that provide
social recognition and better economic and financial rewards is extremely
reductive. From the academic programs conception to the professional careers
choices, there is little more than a process of adaptation to the established
structures which limit the development of a critical mass capable of mobilizing
wills to enforce systemic changes so that human existence ceases to be a mere
process of voluntary submission in exchange for the right to survival for the
many even for the ones that don’t recognize it.
Most citizens at the bottom of the social pyramid
adapt without resistance because they perceive society as an immutable reality,
or extremely difficult to change, which ends up to have a similar result.
The truth is that we are conditioned from an early
age to tune in to reality at specific cultural-ideological frequencies,
although in the broader socio-cultural environment a multiplicity of
cultural-ideological frequencies coexist, it is as if they don’t because due to
different constraints we are unable to tune them.
A class society is characterized by offering
opportunities to members of the privileged classes that are denied to members
of the "inferior" classes. In practice, the difference in levels of
self-confidence and self-esteem can be abysmal and obviously has a negative
impact in terms of academic performance.
Children and especially teenagers from upper-class
families are much more confident and secure than their lower-middle-class
peers, the feeling of shame associated with material privations humiliates and
frustrates, especially in adolescence. From a rational point of view, we should
not feel ashamed of our social origins, but in a consumer society ruled by a
capitalist system where we are defined by what we have, it is not easy to
circumscribe feelings of inferiority.
The apologists for the established order argue that social
success depends solely on individual will. The relevance of individual
perseverance in pursuing a given goal is crucial for success, but true
motivation comes from something more important, which is the fact that we truly
believe we are doing what is right.
And despite all the inconveniences, there are still
people that only function when they fully identify with the projects where they
will have to invest their talents and time because the option for cognitive
dissonance is not the way to preserve integrity, it is way to normalize the
process of cognitive dissociation and blind conformity with situations that
otherwise would make people rise up.
What is at stake is the attempt to camouflage the
injustices and inequalities caused by a society structured in classes with the
aim of diverting responsibility for failure onto citizens who are actually
victims.
Pointing out character flaws, personality disorders
and other problems that all of us human beings share as the main causes for
individual failure, therefore we don’t need to question the established order.
Less contestation and more adaptation is the motto,
to the point that it makes no sense to resist. Society as a whole is moving in
that direction.
Another point on which it is necessary to reflect:
the professional occupation must never be the solely form of social
participation in societal affairs regardless of social status, every citizen
should play different roles in society according to age group, life experience
and other useful knowledge that they willingly want to share.
Many citizens spend their entire lives working in
BS jobs as if they were condemned to perpetual monotony and imbecility while
being to polluted environments, rotating and intermittent schedules, low wages,
precariousness, a whole set of negative aspects associated with essential but
undervalued professions and occupations.
Many citizens with higher education and
intellectually stimulating professional careers argue that the retirement age
should be raised so that those who wish to do so can extend their professional
careers without losing benefits. Obviously, people don't lose validity just
because they reach a certain age.
By the way, the “elderly” have a lot to share with
the community, regardless of their life walkways and academic degree. They are
repeatedly seen as a burden and treated as if they were imbeciles, a clear sign
that we live in a sociopathic society and the lower we go on the social pyramid
the less respect we show for the elderly. Poverty symbolizes failure in a
society that praises fake wealth, frivolous behavior and superfluous
consumption of luxury items as the beacon of freedom of choice and social
success.
Returning to “active” life, a wide range of functions
and professional occupations essential to the proper functioning of society are
carried out by millions of citizens who submit themselves to painful and
monotonous working conditions. Assembling lines, construction sites, mines,
manufacturing facilities with high environmental pollution, where even the time
spent in the bathroom is controlled, and I could go on...
This “category” “class” of citizens needs more free
time to dedicate to activities that give them pleasure than to prolong the
torture. It is true that many people tolerate (accommodate) the BS jobs
(“Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber https://davidgraeber.org/books/bullshit-jobs/) relatively well, because they believe that it is part
of normality, that it cannot be changed, so it's best to move on.
This is true for a part of the population, but it
is not true for the population as a whole, many citizens, for reasons of mere
subsistence, accept jobs that cause them extreme psychological agony and often
do not even have anyone to talk to without being advised to see the positives
aspects that in many occasions are mere fiction and follow the principle: when
you can't fight them, join them, give up, stop thinking for yourself and join
the herd.
An extremely unequal system that sacrifices the
lives of many citizens so that others can emphasize the importance of their
professional, managerial, academic, etc. careers even when the value of their
work is null and in some cases harmful to society, it is a sociopathic society
governed by a psychopathic elite.
While citizens of the so-called
"inferior" classes are looked at with disdain, as if the only
"productive" form of social participation could be limited to “noble”
functions and occupations, devaluation the so-called undifferentiated work only
proves the iniquity of the class dictatorship that we are all supposed to
worship.
The myth of social mobility needs to be debunked,
most adult citizens with family responsibilities and bills to pay can do little
to nothing than take the "opportunities" society has to offer, mostly
the BS jobs.
For most it's basically about trying to survive and
stretch the money until the end of the month, which in itself represents a
tremendous challenge.
A radical change of one's life path is not impossible, but for
citizens at the bottom of the social pyramid, the exception proves the rule,
when it comes to climbing the social ladder. Accommodation is an important
factor of social inertia, but even among those willing to make sacrifices, the
success rate is low because the problem lies in the way society is structured,
not in individual will.
At the individual level, opportunities are very
limited for citizens with limited economic resources since the concern with
basic sustenance is constant.
Socio-professional elitism attributes relevance to
certain professions, occupations and roles to take all important decisions and
disqualify the many as unfit to be involved in social and civic intervention,
besides the right to vote, ordinary citizens are ruled out of any form of
participatory politics with the purpose of laying the foundations for
participatory economics for a more just and thriving society.
All citizens without exception have the right to
play a role in society that goes far beyond the professional sphere, of course
this does not interest the dominant socio-professional classes and elites.
True democracy will never please those who defend
privileges and rights denied to most members of society. Inequality is the
essence of any class society and meritocracy is nothing else but the
justification to protect entrenched interests normalized over time and
transformed into acquired rights favoring the rentier class.
Success stories of vertiginous social ascension are
marginal even in societies where education is free, if we take into account
that education is the great social equalizer.
Entrepreneurship has limits and many projects
considered innovative are just empty promises and/or blatant frauds. The FIRE
sector, the financial system and financial markets in all their forms, genres,
products, tools, schemes and tricks "breed" most billionaires without
producing anything tangible other than unnecessary human suffering and that’s
what we are supposed to be the future for humanity with the financialization of
ecosystems services.
The social roles should be associated with every specific age group,
it is unfair and punitive to link the social role to the professional path. The
wisdom that comes with age has nothing to do with techno-scientific knowledge
and high-tech skills.
Younger people are better equipped to adapt and
function in a rapidly developing society, where change happens at a breakneck
pace, this acceleration makes older citizens look inept, however, the problem
is not in the people, it is in the paradigm of political economy
"chosen" as the foundational rules to regulate the means of
production and allocation of goods and services in society.
Excluding, ridiculing, demeaning, ostracizing and
blaming people for not following the “evolution” of society, under the pretext
that society does not advance due to technological illiteracy, as if this were
the only credible parameter to assess the “utility” of human life. This
mentality says more about the state of society than about the
"uselessness" of older generations. A healthy society does not put
the young in competition with the elderly, it accommodates people in different
roles according to their age group.
Since humanity is humanity, societies respect the
statute of age, in the era of transhumanist techno-scientism older generations
represent a cost and are a nuisance, unless they have the financial resources
to pay premium services, those who supposedly have always lived above their
means, when in fact they were deprived of the means to live should be euthanized
and reused as Soylent Green, to follow the principles of efficiency!
Reducing the social role of citizens to
professional careerism only serves to marginalize the majority of citizens who
will never have the opportunity to actively participate in shaping the Polis.
Reducing citizens to consumers, voters and
compliant spectators is to make them irrelevant, representative democracy
serves to maintain a clear division between those who dictate policies and
those who suffer the consequences.
The basic principle of democracy is economic
democracy, participatory economy and political agency to prevent the growth of
social cancers. If society is not vigilant, over time, individuals with mutual
interests will organize themselves to instrumentalize society's institutions
and create a legal system that protects their interests and will design a
moral-cultural code-system that affirms the nobility of their cause-ideology.
The masses end up being ruled by oligarchs and
plutocrats, the rentier class part of the deep state. Society as a whole is
enslaved using schemes and scams that reinforce power, centralize control and
concentrate wealth in the hands of the few while diminishing the bargaining
power of the lower-middle working class.
The precautionary principle is the most
“economical” choice to avoid the fasciszation of society and the only way to
enforce it is to hold citizens accountable with regular political agency and by
assigning a role in society based on age group, no matter who you are or what
you do for a living, we all have the duty and the right to participate and in
many circumstances we are more trustworthy than personalities and institutions
considered “authorities”.
The Ivy League type of institution and
celebrity-influencer culture says a lot about the delusional state of modern
societies, most of us admire, follow and worship people, brands, ideologies
that transform popularity into legitimacy.
Populism in itself is neither good nor bad, both
demagogues and respected orators use rhetoric as a means to manipulate
perception and emotions, what really matters is the content, does it adhere to
reality, or not?
It is important to learn how to identify patterns,
a beautiful speech can be nothing more than an empty shell, Gandhi wrote the
following quote: "An error does not become truth because of multiplied
propagation, nor does truth become error because no one sees it".
Popularity says nothing about the reliability of
the information conveyed, that “legitimacy” comes from the fact that followers
believe in the sources without bothering to confirm them. Therefore, lies and
misinformation are easily propagated as a means of protecting hidden agendas
that serve vested interests.
Is there no alternative to the techno-fascist
transhumanist proposals put forward by the WEF? The real objective of this
group of "globalists" is to safeguard the interests of their class
through the process of financialization of the ecosystem services presented as
the solution to solve all environmental problems. These elites want to control
nature excluding millions of people and quite possibly resorting to eugenics as
a way to reduce population.
These crooks don't care about what we want for
posterity, nothing matters but their agendas. We fell asleep and lost what
little control we had and now we are at their mercy, instrumentalized as useful
idiots for imperialist and cultural wokeism and gender wars as they advance
their agendas that will enslave us to the point of no return.
A society that dignifies human beings and respects
nature and life cannot be based on the relentless exploitation of everything
that can be transformed into products and commodities.
This is the basic rule of democracy and freedom,
the exploitation of man by man and consequently of all natural
"resources" by mankind, with the aim of commodifying social relations
and life itself is a perversion that, once instituted and normalized, becomes
accepted as an immutable reality and we begin to swim in it like fish in water.
The precautionary principle is defined by valuing
simplicity and reciprocity. A culture of sobriety and respect for natural
limits has to be the norm. The exploitation of natural resources and the
construction of infrastructures always entails the destruction of natural
habitats and ecosystems therefore must be used with moderation which can never
be achieved in a for profit capitalist society.
If we are driven by genuine environmental
conscience, we, as a society have to restrain economic activities that can
cause potential irreversible environment
changes because every species that becomes extinct due to habitat destruction
is a crime against life.
Our delusional hubristic technocratic culture gives
us the power to change the environment at such an accelerated pace that we
cannot process it, but the future generations will have to bear the
consequences, such a reckless culture should be questioned every second, more
then urgent it is imperative to stop it, but instead we are totally hypnotized
by it.
Representative democracy means delegating the
control of most relevant institutions to third parties through a vote of
confidence for a certain period of time. In most cases in do not even have the
right to demand the fulfillment of the electoral political programs.
The political class is completely unimputable to
the law of the land but accountable to the oligarch and plutocrat class. A society
ruled by the rentier class following the parameters defined by the deep state
governance is not a democracy is an oligarchy, the right to vote is a charade
for compliance.
The dignity of life and the sobriety of the
precautionary principle as a tool to avoid exaggeration should be at the base
of all educational programs.
The dangers represented by the accumulation of
wealth in the hands of a small elite are real, over time the concentration of
wealth will become effective political influence, economic power and control of
the structural institutions that should ensure the separation of powers.
The main institutions of society begin to serve the
interests of the dominant class and society as a whole becomes hostage to the
will of the powers that control society. In order to survive, ordinary citizens
are obliged to accept voluntary servitude as a basic civic duty to put food on
the table an guarantee roof over the
head.
Democracy becomes a vessel full of empty promises
(slogans) and, over time, fails to fulfill the minimum objectives of the social
contract, opening the doors to the return of fascist regimes that promise the
"regeneration" of society.
The celebration of the Commons as an antidote
against the commodification of human relations. Money (a virtual concept, a
fictitious entity) currently works, practically on an exclusive basis, as the
means of access to essential goods and services.
Money, no matter the format, we are on the verge of
instituting and normalizing the use of CBDC's (Central Bank Digital Currencies)
under the dominion of the capitalist system is a tool to negative
discrimination because it serves to exclude the so-called "inferior"
classes, the echelons at the bottom of the social pyramid.
The concept of social justice is replaced by the
myth of meritocratic entrepreneurship and social interdependence is replaced by
careerist entitlement, and as we approach the top of the social pyramid we
enter in the realm of absolute unaccountability but somehow we are supposed to
believe that all is done to enhance the so called western democratic values, one
thing is true, only deeply delusional minds under the western propaganda hypnotic effects
can truly believe it.