It's a mad world.
It's a world immersed in oligarchical collectivism. George Orwell coined the term which describes
exactly the state of the world today. An
oligarchy is an institution by the few.
Collectivism occurs when like systems or beings or in this case
institutions link together. The world
functions on oligarchical collectivism.
Oligarchical collectivism can be abstractly depicted as a pyramid made
up of many blocks, with fewer and fewer controlling aspects above.
The linking of institutions in the form of
oligarchical collectivism, as George Orwell so accurately called it, is the
predicament of the status quo.
Oligarchical collectivism is at the root of all the world's
problems. Abstractly, the collective of
oligarchies becomes concerned with the institutions that the pyramid is made of
and not the individuals the pyramid is supposedly built for. Concretely the problem can be seen in a
healthcare system which props up insurance and pharmaceutical industries. And in a martial and war practices which run
the planet. And even in the austerity
measures where the concern for individuals is second to the concern for institutions.
One of the biggest
problems humanity faces today, a problem of our own design, is the energy
conundrum. Energy is arguably only a
problem at all because of the oligarchical collectivism of the status quo. Every form of energy costs something, but the
current energy infrastructure is costing us everything. Energy extraction, facilitation and
production caused the environmental destruction the world now faces. The burning of petrol and nuclear fires is
causing environmental destruction. And
yet are these the most optimal energy sources?
No. They are the best and most
secure energy sources for oligarchical collectivism, the pyramidal status quo
of the few over the many.
The oligarchical
collectivism of the energy industry can be seen in the subsidization of the
most oligarchical formats and the elimination of systems which benefit the many
as opposed to those that benefit the few. Coal, petrol, natural gas as well as the
minerals required to run nuclear power generation experiments are all extracted,
refined and controlled by the few and all endanger the many. They all require oligarchical collectivism,
the control of the few over the many to work.
Whereas other sources of energy, be they biofuel or solar power, would
work best if it were in control of the many.
That is if there was not just one solar station, but many little
ones. The same goes with corporate
agriculture. Ecosystems and economical
systems would thrive more if there were not a few big agricultural corporations,
but many smaller operations.
The world is based on and operates by way
of oligarchical collectivism. All
politics is oligarchical collectivism, designed to reward the few at the cost
of the many. Whenever there is some sort
of strife within a nation, you can guarantee it's because the majority are
weary of the burden of oligarchical collectivism, for the system is highly corruptible,
no matter if in China or Chicago. The
world is controlled by the few over the many, in an arrangement akin to a huge pyramid. This institutionalization compartmentalization
or oligarchical collectivism is not necessarily determinative of corruption only
highly likely to be corrupt. The corrupt
status quo requires a change in the global paradigm. It is everywhere, local and global, oligarchical
collectivism, the corrupt pyramid status quo is what needs to be changed. Lord Acton's Rule:
"I cannot accept
your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable
presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other
way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic
responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends
to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always
bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when
you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is
no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."
~Lord Acton
Only when you know
what the problem is can a solution be extrapolated. Only when you know of fire can you utilize it
or put it out. The word pyramid means
fire in the middle. Only when one
understands the history of the pyramid system can one understand the present status
quo and do something about it. We didn't
start the fire, but we can do something about it.
Arthur Young
presented a four part theory to the learning process in his ideas. He penned The Reflexive Universe. He noted a fourfold structure or basis
throughout the entire universe. The idea
of a fourfold structure to the universe as well as in consciousness is not so
wild and in fact was and is shared by many as I explore in The Matrix of Four,
the Philosophy of the Duality of Polarity.
As far as learning to understand the fire of oligarchical collectivism we
were all born into, Arthur Young extrapolated and said it best:
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