In the very early days of this Substack, I made a post called “The System Isn't Broken, It’s Fixed.” Since not enough folks got to see it back then, I wanna re-post an excerpt and the link now:
Excerpt:
Think about it: We’re alive because our ancestors were the ones who used anxiety and hyper-vigilance to survive. The more casual or reckless early humans weren’t around long enough to pass on their genes. So, here we are — hard-wired with a hair-trigger fight-or-flight response — and we’re stuck in a world in which simple acts like breathing air or visiting a doctor are unhealthy or possibly lethal. Translation: We are viewed as the ideal subjects for a grand social experiment.
If you were a member of the elite class — or the proverbial 1% — wouldn’t you prefer that the masses were pliable and easily controlled? Why wouldn’t you rig circumstances in such a way as to keep billions of potential challengers off-balance, frightened, and divided? What better way to maintain power and control than to implement an insidious form of group manipulation? It’s what cult leaders do. It’s what domestic abusers do. It’s what dictators do. And what are those in power if not abusive and narcissistic sociopaths?
Full post:
Yep. It's working pretty much the way it's supposed to. I can't count the number of times people have told me that they couldn't live if they believed that. I try to explain that it's not a belief and it's not something that gives me any satisfaction to convey. It's an awful, painfully and empirically demonstrated reality. I also get annoyed by the melodrama of, "I couldn't live if...", especially when it comes from people who have done quite well in managerial ranks of the system.
Or as a client of mine was fond of saying, the system is working exactly as it was designed to.