11-02-2016, 08:21 AM
The bigger divide may be between elitists and anti-elitists -- between those believe that no human suffering is in excess so long as it gives the elites the maximal profits and those who believe that workers need a stake in the system if there is not to be a socialist insurrection/slave revolt/peasant uprising. The former have often shown their willingness to use lies, tortures, and mass murder to get their way.
If this divide operates without mitigation then the question may not be so much whether people figuratively grease the guillotine but instead who gets the figurative command of the guillotine -- against whom.
If this divide operates without mitigation then the question may not be so much whether people figuratively grease the guillotine but instead who gets the figurative command of the guillotine -- against whom.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.