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by dkkj47 810 days ago
She needs to read Circulation of the Elites.

People are not complex. They have 3 inch chimp brains. As the envrionment that brain exists in, gets more and more complex and unpredictable the brain is going to crash in all kinds of ways(Rationality is Bounded).

And the elite protect their own ass and each other, whenever that happens cuz there is no other move. There is such a large ever growing gap between them and the plebs it doesnt matter what the plebs know. Look at outcomes of Snowden and Assange.