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There is a popular view that a grand plan exists, a secret plan, known only to a few (or possibly hundreds of thousands) complicit conspirators to destroy society and rebuild it in some other way.
It has been called by many names, The Illuminati, Freemasons, The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy, and many more. Most recently, the term "Globalists" is frequently used.
We see world events and we attribute those events to some sort of master plan. This is natural. Humans (and many animals) have a biological imperative to see meaningful connections between unrelated things. It's called Apophenia.
It caused early 20th Century scientists to "see" canals on Mars. It causes religious zealots to "see" the face of a deity in a piece of toast.
We're told that members of government, collectively known as "Deep State" are planning to destroy the government and society and replace it with "something" ... a glorious worker's paradise, a 1984-style fascist dystopia, a paleolithic commune society ... whatever.
We believe that we alone can't fight the Deep State. We need a "great leader" to do it for us. We become willing to believe that, if only the "right man (or woman)" were in charge, they could make Deep State go away and save us all for a fate worse than.
But ... there is always a but ... is a grand conspiracy or Deep State or infiltration of alien lizard men necessary to explain when things go disastrously wrong? Or, are there other, more prosaic reasons that if we were forced to admit, would reveal fundamental flaws in our characters as humans?
Does the government have to work in a concerted manner to bollocks up the country? Or, can a government made up of individual incompetents and self-aggrandizers do it all on their own, without a plan?
For example, the Post Office, the DMV, City Hall, or any place where citizens interface with the wheels and cogs of government are inefficient, incompetent, soul-sucking places that no one goes willingly, only when the need is great. They didn’t recently become like this, they have ALWAYS been like this.
Who built those monuments to ineffectualism? The simple answer is, We did. We elect the people who fund those agencies, who appoint their leaders, who hire their workers. We continue to elect them based on the party they claim to support, the things they promise to give us, or the way they wear their hair.
Everyone wants something from government. We are a country of ever-expanding identity groups, all believing that we are deserving of something we believe other groups get but we don't, or things we deserve that other groups don't.
We will elect the person who best panders to our identity. A successful politician is one who can pander to multiple groups at once -- creating unity in the chaos. The most successful politician is the one who can pander to groups of extreme opposite ideologies and convince them to come together to victimize another group.
If you want change, if you want to destroy the "Deep State" stop voting for panderers, dividers, or uniters.
Vote for a person who believes we can be better than we are -- all of us.
It has been called by many names, The Illuminati, Freemasons, The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy, and many more. Most recently, the term "Globalists" is frequently used.
We see world events and we attribute those events to some sort of master plan. This is natural. Humans (and many animals) have a biological imperative to see meaningful connections between unrelated things. It's called Apophenia.
It caused early 20th Century scientists to "see" canals on Mars. It causes religious zealots to "see" the face of a deity in a piece of toast.
We're told that members of government, collectively known as "Deep State" are planning to destroy the government and society and replace it with "something" ... a glorious worker's paradise, a 1984-style fascist dystopia, a paleolithic commune society ... whatever.
We believe that we alone can't fight the Deep State. We need a "great leader" to do it for us. We become willing to believe that, if only the "right man (or woman)" were in charge, they could make Deep State go away and save us all for a fate worse than.
But ... there is always a but ... is a grand conspiracy or Deep State or infiltration of alien lizard men necessary to explain when things go disastrously wrong? Or, are there other, more prosaic reasons that if we were forced to admit, would reveal fundamental flaws in our characters as humans?
Does the government have to work in a concerted manner to bollocks up the country? Or, can a government made up of individual incompetents and self-aggrandizers do it all on their own, without a plan?
For example, the Post Office, the DMV, City Hall, or any place where citizens interface with the wheels and cogs of government are inefficient, incompetent, soul-sucking places that no one goes willingly, only when the need is great. They didn’t recently become like this, they have ALWAYS been like this.
Who built those monuments to ineffectualism? The simple answer is, We did. We elect the people who fund those agencies, who appoint their leaders, who hire their workers. We continue to elect them based on the party they claim to support, the things they promise to give us, or the way they wear their hair.
Everyone wants something from government. We are a country of ever-expanding identity groups, all believing that we are deserving of something we believe other groups get but we don't, or things we deserve that other groups don't.
We will elect the person who best panders to our identity. A successful politician is one who can pander to multiple groups at once -- creating unity in the chaos. The most successful politician is the one who can pander to groups of extreme opposite ideologies and convince them to come together to victimize another group.
If you want change, if you want to destroy the "Deep State" stop voting for panderers, dividers, or uniters.
Vote for a person who believes we can be better than we are -- all of us.
