Ruling class

Yeah.

i'd be okay if things went that way yeah me too seems like the uh the ruling elite as people call them would like to see it go the other way well i'm the

ruling elite what do they have to say for that all power comes originally from the people and we're the people well said so look at yourself in the mirror and call yourself the ruling elite because you are the source of all government power that's right if aliens show

up

and tell you take me to your leader just tell him you're talking to him what do you want Yep.

We're at a time and place now where things are very volatile.

And the so-called ruling class is on the most shaky ground that they've been on since legitimately the French Revolution.

So these people, they're making very, I want to say, desperate decisions almost.

And you're seeing it play out on the world stage when these countries that you're looking at like now with Russia and America, they're willing to go to the very lengths of nuclear brinksmanship.

In 2019, following decades of neoliberal economics culminating in so-called austerity measures from 2008, massive social protests erupted in 35 countries, that's one in five, reflecting what one commentator called unprecedented political mobilization worldwide.

The signs of revolution, according to former emeritus professor Kees van der Peel, were too serious for the transnational ruling class to ignore.

According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the richest 10% of the global population controls 76% of the wealth.

Meanwhile, the poorest half of humanity, the bottom 50%, controls only 2% of the wealth.

Even a passing acquaintance with monetary history, Carney told the most senior figures in international finance at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, suggests that the center won't hold.

The previous week, BlackRock had published a seminal report arguing that conventional monetary and fiscal policies would not be enough to deal with the next economic downturn.

evidently a new monetary and financial system is needed if ruling class interests are to be protected.

Third, the propaganda system.

It's always been one of the seven deadly sins.

But you had a ruling class, I was related to some of them, I knew some of them, who were moderated in that and other temptations by their Christian faith, or at least... a Christian culture that produced them, that made them feel some obligations to the people beneath them.

It was called noblesse oblige.

It was absolutely real.

They were selfish and dumb and weak and they were alcoholic, you know, and a lot of, there were a lot of problems there, but fundamentally it was not considered acceptable to just exploit people because you made money.

If you did that, you had to be embarrassed about it and pretend you weren't doing it.

But that ruling class is gone, and it's been replaced by people who have nothing in common with the people they rule, who hate them, obviously, and who are willing to enslave them through debt and addiction in order to become rich.

And now we're kind of reaching its final stage where clearly the population hates this, hates the people in charge, People in charge know that.