[Henchman21]

This is absurd. When people refer to "the elites" as I did, they often mean a large group of people. They do NOT speak with one voice[0], nor do they act in seamless unison. It is a bit noteworthy then that governments worldwide seem intent on destroying the privacy of communications on the internet.

[0] People who are used to getting fucked by people higher up in the economic food chain are pretty used to seeing, with their own eyes, the actions "the elites" take. See, we get to live in the world they create. Whereas they get to live in a much, much nicer world, without rules or restrictions. To call the average person's lived experience "hyper-pattern-matching imagination" is just plainly being shitty.

[phs318u]

No. I don’t believe most people can see “with their own eyes” anything of the sort. They definitely feel the pain. But the ability of most people to correctly ascribe their pain to a semi-reasonable, possibly-likely source is utter rubbish. Most folks do the exact opposite. They are SO incapable of seeing with clear eyes that they will happily let their abusers scapegoat utterly irrelevant groups and distract with pointless crusades. Most people let their pain get hijacked just so they can easily point the finger at anyone and feel justified that yes, someone did indeed do them over. And as a result, they will consistently vote against their own interests and join in on the gang bashing of minority groups, all the while being screwed over even more.

Perhaps next time it would be more useful to point out exactly who you’re referring to in a given discussion rather than lazily refer to “the elites”.

I’ll also add that in my view, most of what seems like the concerted actions of a global conspiracy is merely the result of very simple human heuristics. Mostly functions of greed (for money, power, or both). Just like the amazing structure in fractals arises from very simple math, so too the workings of our politics and economies through simple human heuristics played out at scale.