Obedience to Authority: An Exploration, Part V
Obedience to Authority: An Exploration, Part V
On Obedience to Authority, Mass Formation, Woke and Corporatist News: The Natural Evolution of the Haves and the Have-Nots
Continued from Obedience to Authority: An Exploration, Part IV
The ‘Natural’ Evolution of the Haves and the Have-Nots, The Deserving and the Undeserving
One of the first acts of the haves is to feed themselves and the armies they use to keep the undeserving undeserving. I recently learned that Plato wrote, paraphrased, that ‘In order for us (the elites) to have subservients to serve us, we need to stop feeding them meat or we will never be able to control them.’ Coincidence or not: the current elite agenda for the have-nots is for them to eat bugs. Nicely processed, of course, undoubtedly disguised as food-like substances similar to hot dogs, Oreo cookies or spicy taco chips.
With the agricultural city-state development, human evolution got the chance to humanly kick in with an intellectually based deservedness. The few most deserving, being well fed and isolated, quickly unground themselves into the role of god or near god, with the unconscious support of the lobster neurological hierarchy genes and psychology. Of which Roman senator or French aristocratic decadence are good examples. The current transhumanist cabal are a nice example of that. They have, like their predecessors, demanded obedience and often obeisance from the undeserving with a power that they perceive they have, be it with the authority of evolutionary excellence, the grace of God, the force of government and/or militia-backed wealth, the withholding of food or a combination. This authority is one that the underserving have in part conferred onto the deserving as their expression of the biological drive for hierarchal social structures and as a kind of Stockholm syndrome because the majority of undeserving are beholden to the deserving’s largess. In this way both the majority of the elites and the majority of the have-nots learn to mistake malevolence for benevolence. It is with being obedient to authority that awareness of the existing malevolence can be kept minimal or unseen. And this aligns with the ‘pack animal’ nature Canetti posits as a pre-condition of crowd formation.
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Going back to Peterson’s idea of voluntary reciprocity and play as the foundation for a stable community, the development of agriculture changed that in a tangible way. The haves divorced themselves from playing with the have-nots as equals. Instead, more often than not, the have-nots became kind of play things to the haves, to be controlled, formed, used and to be tolerated as a distasteful necessity when required. For example, Orwell expressed that sentiment with his observation that the haves find the have-nots to have a repugnant smell; and the fun and excitement the Roman elite had in watching their play things be killed by animals or to kill each other inside the Forum; the Mayan elite’s use of human sacrifice. And, today, we have Juval Noah Harari’s open statements on TED-Talks and elsewhere that with AI and robots the current elite no longer require the smelly have-nots who have become wasteful and hackable empty meat eaters to be disposed of in order to help with climate control, another narrative of questionable veracity. (Here is a critical look at the “climate change” narrative as manipulative scam theatre to created an authority structure by the haves: Child Prophets.
What About the Basic Human Traits?
Depending on their base human trait profile the majority, certainly not all, of the undeserving will find themselves by necessity (the Stockholm syndrome) and with the base human requirement for hierarchy and connection, looking to the elites to be seen as worthy enough for attention and food. It is rarely successful regarding attention. With food that likely will be the case most of the time, to a greater or lesser extent, with lots of exceptions. Why with food? For the elites to wilfully starve their toys takes a great level of delusion because, historically, doing so has had poor outcomes for the haves. For example, the French aristocracy. Unfortunately greed is far more stupefying than sex, and history is rife with the deliberate impoverishment of the have-nots that have lead to various forms of rebellion, often equivalent to the bloody cries and eventuality of ‘off with their heads.’ It looks like our current batch of elites are trying to avoid that with a controlled starvation alongside a medical ‘treatment’ and ‘food’ plan that are somewhat covert population reduction plans.
Marie Antoinette: ‘Let them eat brioche!’ (‘Brioche’, was what Antoinette actually spoke. It has been translated into ‘cake’ because the English language doesn’t have a word for the extremely butter rich bread that is brioche.)
Klaus Schwab: ‘Let them eat bugs!’
It is also interesting to note the efforts by various governments around the world do disarm their populations, likely as pre-emptive action to disempower bloody revolution. This is being debated with particularly vehemence in the USA.
For some reason this have/have-not dynamic reminds me of the turkey-tale black swan event Nassim Taleb describes in his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. So long as the turkeys are being fed they perceive their masters as benevolent, regardless their ultimate Thanksgiving end.
The balance of the rest of the underserving will be roughly split between; 1) the ambitious who are largely comprised of sycophants and, perhaps to a lesser extent, sociopaths who strive to join the elites and; 2) the critically discontented agitators who are either grudgingly tolerated, marginalised or scapegoated and killed by the others. Allowing for overlaps, this roughly mirrors Desmet’s and others’ observations about the split between the completely asleep, the partially asleep and the awake.
The designation or assignation ‘deserving’ comes to be applied to everyone within all economic levels of wealth because there is always some group within each ‘class’ or strata that is deemed to be undeserving within the hierarchies. It is not insignificant that ‘deservedness’ is often used, mostly unconsciously, in our media and popular thinking to justify or rationalise everything from food indulgence to work advancement to living in mansions with billion dollar yachts. It is important to note that the existence of an undeserving group often remains unspoken and largely unconscious, especially in Western Judaeo-Christian communities, because it goes against the overt Biblical ethic of ‘all people are created equal under God’. Likewise in Japan, with strong Buddhist and Shinto precepts, the undeserving ‘untouchables’ there are almost a taboo topic. In contrast, for example, India’s Hindus fully and openly embrace hierarchy and with it the the mostly nonchalant existence of an undeserving class, the untouchables. The untouchables continue to exist overtly, in India, and more covertly in the west and in Japan, for example, despite official government or religious laws or precepts. It is interesting to consider that the recalcitrance of the existence of an undeserving class, whether open or hidden, is perhaps in part because of the biology of hierarchy in the human nervous system combined with a clearly delineated separation between the haves and the have-nots.
This is likely a key foundation to the dormant psychological presence of the ‘parasite’ called obedience to authority. It is rooted in our biological gene pool. Fortunately with the studies of epigenetics and neuroplasticity, it is not a fixed condition. It is a base that can be overcome with effort and practice of a ‘spiritual’ or ‘mindful’ nature. So, the parasite is built into our genes and is, fundamentally, the acceptance, consciously or unconsciously, by the majority of the population in both the haves and the have-nots, of the existence of the unstated classification of “deservedness and un-deservedness”. This echoes the Stanford prison experiment: the roles played were that of deserving and underserving, and the resident parasite, our natural genetic predisposition, became active as soon as the conditions allowed it to. The Jews in Germany became with propaganda the locus of the undeserving. In puritanical Britain and the USA, it was for a while witches, primarily women. The uninjected, in the time of covid, have been likewise deemed by propaganda to be undeserving of their basic human rights.
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