2024-10-18
17 分钟Many believe that the most important social divide in the West today is between the political left and right. Much of the discourse in the corporate and independent media revolves around this battle, and many believe that its outcome will have existential ramifications for the future of the West. But is this political conflict acting […]
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Many believe that the most important social divide in the west today is between the political left and right.
Much of the discourse in the corporate and independent media revolves around this battle, and many believe the outcome of this battle will have existential ramifications for the future of the west.
But is this political conflict acting as a distraction from the true divide that shapes a society, that being the age old divide between the rulers and the ruled?
In this video, we argue that the power disparity between the ruling class and the citizenry has reached such pathological levels that a form of slavery is emerging.
This slavery is fueled by a ruling class that suffers from a pathological condition Carl Jung called psychological inflation and a citizenry that has become too weak and powerless to resist the growing corporate and state takeover of almost every aspect of life.
Helplessness and weakness are the eternal experience and the eternal problem of mankind, wrote Carl Jung.
Decades of research led the american psychologist Susan Fiske to conclude that men and women have five core social motives that are essential to psychological and social well being.
These include the need to belong the need to understand ourselves, other people, and the world around us the need for self enhancement, which is the ability to cultivate a positive self image the need for trust, whether it be trust in other people or in the effectiveness of social institutions and finally, the need for control, autonomy, and competence over the course of our life.
Most of these needs require the possession of personal power.
For power is not merely the ability to control others.
It is also the ability to shape and influence the course of our life.
Or, as the philosopher Bertrand Russell stated, power is the production of intended effects.
Power, therefore, is necessary for self enhancement and for attaining the goals that can improve our life.
Furthermore, as all social relations are structured by dynamics of power, power, or the lack thereof, affects our ability to form healthy relationships.
In his writings, Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave turned social reformer, emphasized that what distinguishes the slave from the free man is the level of power each possesses.
In his book my bondage and my freedom, Douglas defined the slave by the utter powerlessness they have to decide their own destiny.
He also notes that we have a natural aversion to powerlessness.