There are those who have been and continue to enhance this entropy in order to exploit it for political gain. With greed for power as a motive they have either maliciously or most unwisely betrayed every trust placed in them to deliberately limit and prejudice the perspectives available to the diverged individuals since it is a relatively simple matter to direct their choices at the ballot box once control has been established over their perspective and range of perception.
Those who have perpetrated this injustice on the nation they claim to love may well have sounded the death knell of Democracy in the 21st century. A population of individuals who cannot formulate or maintain a mental ‘map’ of their society is at risk to every social ill imaginable. There is some critical percentage of such individuals in a population beyond which Democracy can not survive, the causal link between vote and response is broken. Trust becomes impossible, there is no rational basis for it. The law degrades to become nothing more than the fangs and claws of the monster who lives in the dark behind the door. Every function which depends on the individual understanding and empowering the relationship between himself and his society is at risk as perceived reality diverges from actual reality, for the individuals who do not and can not view society as a rational creation to be dealt with in a rational manner will revert to dealing with it in the manner of any frightened person struggling to survive: force of arms, and the more the better.
This is not totally a matter of professional liars manipulating ignorant people with illusions, the truly dangerous part of this scenario are the elements of repression and tyrannical thought that do exist within our society to threaten freedom, the elements found in the primitive and feudalistic competitions of the corporate entities who operate most freely in the shadows of ignorance. The converged members of society have trouble admitting such elements exist, it is a frightening thought. The diverged members have no trouble seeing what is moving through the shadows of their ignorance, but have no way to communicate this to the remainder of a population who do not want to know. Both are at risk, and for one cause or the other both are nearly helpless.
This is all true, Cyranos, and from what I know of history has always been true. Surely you have described the systemic flaws behind the rise and fall of every empire. It's always Power supported by The Big Lie.
ReplyDeleteIt's a frustration to those like you with brilliant minds and a strong sense of ethics. I understand so very well.
Indeed, power has always set the big lie to doing the dirty work... perhaps the antidote to one big lie is answers to a million little questions asked by the enlightened minds of day...can always hope.
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