'Being manipulated into voting for and consenting to the agendas of
the powerful is not meaningfully different from having the agendas of
the powerful forced upon you.'
By Caitlin Johnstone: For most of recorded history, domination by brute force has been the
norm for human civilization. Someone claws their way into a position of
power over the other humans, and you obey and respect him or he’ll have
his goons attack you.As people became more educated and more
aware of what’s going on in their world, they began to decide that they
didn’t much like being attacked by the ruler’s goon squad whenever they
stepped out of line. Because there are a lot more ordinary people than
rulers, this forced an end to the practice of rule by overt brute force
tyranny in some parts of the world.
So a few things changed.
First, we began to see rulers shipping their violent goon squad
enforcers overseas. While it is now taboo to openly butcher members of
your citizenry who oppose you, it is considered perfectly acceptable to
send troops across the sea to destroy foreign nations which disobey your
dictates.