2025-01-07
Since time immemorial, humanity has been organised into groups - some cooperating, some fighting, some dispersed, some concentrated geographically, but in general all under some form of leadership.
If we believe the history books, then these leaders eventually developed into hereditary leadership families known as "Royalty".
Naturally, individual leaders cannot be everywhere at once giving people instruction and judging aberrant behaviours, so the concept of Royal Courts that administered each locality on behalf of the monarch was instituted.
Likewise the monarch could not know everything that perhaps he needed to know, so the concept of the advisory council (Witan in Old England) was born where the monarch could pick the finest brains in the land before determining on any particular course of action. From these beginnings arose our current "Parliamentary Democracy".
Nevertheless, as time moved on, the legal and judicial concepts of the Corporation evolved, to take care of the operation of large enterprises which needed to be organised in order to pursue large projects (good and bad) that reached beyond home shores and were thus beyond the capability of any one person or nation to control - so were the various East India Companies formed, to loot the ships and resources of foreign nations.
We now find ourselves in the situation where the corporate oligarchy has become immensely rich and powerful, indeed sufficiently rich and powerful to control whole nations by corrupt means, and to get away with it, since all information control, alongside judicial control, is also under their own corporate control.
We have sleep-walked into a corporatocracy, accountable only to its shareholders. Thus have the links to the formal power structures of nation states and associated governments of the people been traduced in favour of effective government by immensely rich but unaccountable corporate oligarchs whose motivations do not necessarily align with the normal human scruples of living in peace and prosperity with our neighbour. It's more a case of those who control all the corporations win, and those who exercise the control do not necessarily appear on the shareholders registers.
Secret societies of all kinds also exist for a reason, and that reason doesn't include accountability to humanity.
Result: World Wars and colonialism on a grand scale.
We now appear to be witnessing the collapse of the corporate oligarchy on a global scale. It's going to be messy beyond our imagining, because there is no obvious organisational focus on the other side to which populations may gravitate, but a new world will somehow have to emerge.
It will be out with the old, in with the new ... but what will the new look like?
Well, we've tried "Royalty", we've tried "Parliamentary Democracy", we've degenerated into "Oligarchy" / Fascism (rule by government-corporate "partnership"), and it has not worked. Various attempts both current and historical have also tried theocracy, or rule by religious dogma, but that doesn't work too well either, being inherently inflexible, intolerant, and supremely reluctant to change.
And by now we are all at least acquainted with Klaus Schwab and his nascent New World Technocratic Order where we will all be subsumed into a technocratic control grid, managed by the marvels of AI. In other words, "computer says no" slaves to the system.
What about that old-fashioned American idea, a government of the people by the people and for the people? After all, as someone famous is once reputed to have said, the Americans always come up with the right answer, but only after they have tried everything else first.
