utopian Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Lets have a thought experiment. With monkeys. Angry monkeys. There are five monkeys. The smart monkey, the big monkey, and three common monkeys. The smart monkey, being smart, easily tempts the other four monkeys into taking on debts for whatever they want. The smart monkey now gets the other monkeys to do whatever work he wants, as the other monkeys must work to pay off their debt. Any time a monkey gets close to paying off its debt, the smart monkey finds a way to manipulate money to get that monkey further into debt. Now it often happens, that one of the monkeys wants to try and stop paying his debts. That's ok, because the smart monkey just hires the big monkey to go collect the debt. The big monkey, being the biggest, can fight any one monkey and win. And actually, the big monkey can fight two monkeys at the same time, and beat them both. But the big monkey cannot fight three monkeys and win. This is a fairly simple problem, however; all the smart monkey needs to do, if he ever needs to collect on the debt of three monkeys, is distract one monkey, while the big monkey handles the other two monkeys. The smart monkey does not even need to fight, just distract one monkey long enough for the big monkey to beat up the other two monkeys, then come deal with the distracted monkey. Distracting a common monkey is fairly easy for a smarter monkey. But what if the big monkey decides he no longer wants to pay his debt? Well, there's a solution for that as well, though it is a little harder. The smart monkey has to organize the three common monkeys long enough to gang up on the big monkey, in order to collect on his debt. Remember, the big monkey can take one monkey, and even two, but not three, and certainly not with a smart monkey distracting him. It certainly is a pain to organize the three monkeys, who love to be obnoxious unorganized trolls, but eventually the smart monkey can always get that big monkey to pay his debts. There is only one way for the non-smart monkeys to ever escape the perpetual debt slavery of the smart monkey; all at the same time, the three common monkeys and the big monkeys must join together in unison, and tell the smart monkey to destroy all records of any debts. Unfortunately, this is the most unlikely of all scenarios, because the four monkeys must all, simultaneously, overcome the guilt of debt, overcome the distractions of the smart monkey, and organize long enough to get the smart monkey to do what they want. Unfortunately, the smart monkey, being smart, knows he can always prevent this by always keeping the other monkeys distracted, with television, and video games, and drugs both legal and illegal, and more. And so the four monkeys are forever enslaved to the fifth smart monkey. Can you see how this translates into real life? The big monkey is America, with it's military industrial complex. The smart monkey is the international monetary funds. The three common monkeys are the countries of the rest of the world. And we are all just a bunch of angry monkeys, angry about all the debts we will never be rid of, as long as some of us monkeys are smarter than the rest. 1
A4E Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Great post. Similar thoughts have gone through my mind ever since I was around 9. There was a female teacher at my school who had gym with us. When we were supposed to shower after gym, none of us really wanted to, but a few usually went ahead like good minions and showered anyway. And when they learned that the rest of us were going to try to skip the shower (again), they promptly told on us to that female teacher, and she would come in and tell us to shower, and even command and lead us into the shower. This was a common situation each time after gym. The teacher seemed strict, but not in a bad mood, so she probably enjoyed it. One day, I got tired of the same complaints from the good minions about how they had to shower, but we, the rest, wouldn't, (revealing that they did not want to either), So I looked at the worst complainer and said in a very serious tone "If we stand together against the teacher, then we will not have this problem! We can rally against the teacher, and then this problem will go away!". He looked at me like something extraterrestrial was coming out of my chest, and everyone went quiet and did not say anything for a couple of minutes. Its hard to remember now, but I actually think the complaints and tattle tailing lowered substantially.
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