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Mike Niendorff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-08-04 04:37 PM
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140. just look at it in terms of class and class-dominance.

The primary mechanism by which any ruling class maintains control is by dividing those they rule against each other.

So they try to divide the men against the women.
They try to divide the women against the men.
They try to divide the whites against the blacks against the latinos against the ... etc ...
They try to divide the young against the old.
And the old against the young.
Middle-class against poor.
Poor against middle-class.
Rural against Urban.
Urband against rural.

On and on and on.

Anywhere there is a perceived "difference" to be exploited, it will be, in order to mantain the dominance of the ruling class by keeping its opposition muddled in infighting and recrimination.

The primary motivations are financial (ruling-class profits) and social (systemic preservation).

On a broad scale, some who wish to advance within this system learn to play along by hitching themselves to the (deliberately divisive) terms that the ruling class is promoting. Others advance themselves by opposing those terms. Neither group ends up threatening the control of the ruling class, because this sort of social conflict is exactly what the ruling class wants.

Careers have been made defining, attacking and defending this or that thesis as to why one group adopts a self-deprecating outlook, or what a counter-outlook should be, etc, etc, etc. And that's exactly how the ruling elites want it. Keep squabbling. Keep fighting each other. Keep arguing over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, for all they care. Just don't focus on our common interests, our common humanity, and our common status relative to our common masters.


MDN



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