"Are the very rich deliberately trying to harm our country? In some cases, perhaps. There is a strand of capitalism that wants to generate crises, then seize national assets at fire sale prices. But no such intention is required to explain the general damage inflicted by oligarchic capital. It is simply that the interests of the very rich are not the same as the interests of the nation. We should never forget what the billionaire stockbroker Peter Hargreaves, who donated £3.2m to one of the leave campaigns, said about Brexit: “We will get out there and we will become incredibly successful because we will be insecure again. And insecurity is fantastic.”" Monbiot.
War always destroys social cohesion by dividing people into servile parts: enemy, friend, rich, poor, Christian, other, Capitalist, Socialist, Left, Right.
The purpose of war is to dehumanize a population, to spread fear, destroy community assets, bomb homes, cities, villages.
So the main weapon in the world of authoritarian cruelty and violence, is the attitude of politics that preaches we are selfish and violent animals by nature.
The weapon that is most effective is whatever teaches us to be selfish, uncaring, hateful and indifferent to the suffering of others.
It encourages us to treat males as unthinking, uncaring, muscular fighting machines, trained to be a certain kind of "rational" actors who honour without question the power of the pecking order. To turn complex beings into automatons marching in time with the brass band, seeking self worth from the rulers.
When men and women have been brainwashed into the "class" of their particular group of the pecking order, they will react to tension with their fists, seek the muscle in all things and eschew any tenderness within their minds and hearts.
They are lonely in an essential way that ultimately makes them non-human.
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