Throughout history, a self-entitled ruling class and their aspiring sycophants have rarely listened to expendable peasants. To do so would have ham-stringed themselves in their own game-of-thrones. Why should we expect them to pause from their relentless pursuit of power and sacrifice their gated-community, center-stage, moment in the sun for we mere peasants now?

From the very beginning of 'New World' history of the modern corporate nation-state, "democracy" or "republic" never had anything other than legs of clay to begin with. Those words are just double-speak code words, part of a larger narrative that is as correlated with their purported ideals as is the legal system correlated with empathy or morality ... that is 'not very'.

In line with a 'veneer theory' of culture, our institutions and processes are only thinly veiled cultural conceits, our institutions and systems only a kabuki show, serving the ruthless and unscrupulous. And institutions and legal processes are only as strong as families and communities can be gutted, empathetic bonds and trust, completely replaced by orders and rules.

Smaller, ethnic tribes of the Americas, or the aboriginal peoples of other parts of the world, have experienced the front lines of this class war very quickly, as did other smaller tribes and communities. Only now, as our species' worse predatory instincts are beginning to cross faux-ethnic lines — and effect a middle class which has served its purpose and is now expendable — do we presume to have the basic human right to speak up, or that the ruling class is obliged to listen. I expect the same dismal results our less entitled brothers and sisters have experienced throughout the centuries.

History, like science in particular and education or academia in general, the arts, law, religion, business, journalism, and just about any other domain ... have almost completely been captured and gamed — arms of the vampire-squid, the mythos of a self-entitled, predatory, and ruthless ruling class.

"It's a big club. And you ain't in it." — George Carlin

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