matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
matrixmann ([personal profile] matrixmann) wrote2018-01-31 12:36 pm

It's not as simple as that...

"We need to stop fascism...!"
"You know what? Fascism is already there again. The seed has been sown. And you know why?
Because the real moneybags of this world are paying to get it back, just like last century - like all the other times when fascism appeared out of nowhere.
Let me tell you why they make it happen: Their own vassals are failing to deliver them more profit - seemingly, the border to achieve some by the usual means of reducing production costs and costs for personnel just gets hit. There's no more big space to get lower anymore. Call it "the wisdom of the current reigning system has met its end". The scheme doesn't drop it anymore.
But these people still want profit, like they're used to get it, because it's their way of life, it's their imagination how things should be like.
So - when one vassal doesn't make it anymore, get some other.
Or, better do it that way: Don't just choose another right away. Create some competition. This looks less like a coup d'état and also it lends wings to the efforts being undertaken to please you. Nothing better than a vassal for fearing for his privileges to fade away...
So let it come slowly. Let it look like "still anything's possible for all of you", that is the best fuel for letting humans work their ass off.
The competition is also needed because the current vassals slowly start to ask questions. Not all of them, but quite enough. Seemingly, they seem to get the scheme that it's not about prosperity for all, but just for a limited amount of individuals among mankind. More than that, maybe they even see how disposable they are themselves. And that's not the contract some signed to personally when they entered those businesses they are active in.
They start asking questions and they also see how much they fail more and more often to sell this scheme to the rest of the world outside that seems to put even their lives on the line.
Of course, these questions are not desired, and here it comes where the competition with other vassals comes into play. "Do as we say or even your privileges are gonna be taken away!", that's what it is.
And when you fail to find vassals who do it for money and little favors, then get some which are deeply convinced of the nonsense they do. That's what fascists are.
Besides, they also have no problem with torturing anyone and even lowering the borderline of making profit happen one more time at other peoples' cost.
The current vassals got the choice: You wanna do as we want or you wanna be dropped out of the upper class and sit on the other side of the table - on the side which is losing meat?
Some will subscribe to it one more time of doing as demanded in order to keep their own privileges - that's what you see happen when suddenly even people in high offices who are not famous for talking far right ideology start to talk and even more start to act the same way.
It's fear of losing one's own position as well as, in some cases, having signed to the new scheme that the moneybags are preparing.
And those, who already feel it coming, they greatly underestimate the power of manipulation, of mass psychology and of media, especially their own minds, so they fail to get it they're already being presented and their ideas promoted in a way that makes people be opposed to them. Which is part of the scheme of introducing fascism in a broader manner and creating competition among the potential vassals.
So to say, it all is made to run in a certain way to make it look like fascism is the only way of practicing political opposition, but that exactly is what the big moneybags want in order to push their plans to get the last bit of profit out of society.
In other words: Fascism doesn't take over because people have become far right, it's because fascism is getting provoked as a reaction from the people because all other political players on the field do their best to ignore the essential problems that small man has (in order to deliver the moneybags what they demand), so it makes the fascists appear like they're the only people who care about those problems (which they only do in exchange for power and for sitting on the other side of the wealth table, not because they really do care, but this is something that doesn't interest someone in desperate need). It's a thing attacking from two sides, so that all except for the moneybags lose - more than that, the moneybags win this way or that way, no matter how the story ends. In the end, they'll have some loyal vassals at the top positions anyway which will bring through their agendas they want to have realized.
Small man will be the one to suffer both ways - either in the form of those ones pursued by the Nazi regime or through being crushed by crime throwing him to the dogs and nobody doing anything against it."

[identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com 2018-02-02 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Fascism is the capitalism in decay. Pretty much enough said. It has to turn to taking away liberties because it gets in contradiction with profit, plus it is all in crisis and this is the last attempt to keep its power.

[identity profile] onb2017.livejournal.com 2018-02-03 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's because you added the right tag "disguise". Manipulation. And, yeah, ignorance.