Speaking of economy, I laugh whenever I hear the advice "don't let them win."
I don't know, but being their wage-slave for 50 years sounds exactly like letting them win...
If I am being honest, I do think they "win" either way. Metaphorically speaking, this is a domestication process. The only people who will be left are those who are OK with this system, or at least respond well to Huxley's soma. It's like farmers making sure the most violent chickens don't breed.
I couldn't agree more. There's an interesting series of articles by Jan Irvin that trace the intelligence connections of Huxley, Leary, Wasson et al. It's available on Logos Media.
Schiller wrote that Necessity puts aside its own, and he said that Play is what makes us Human. Leibniz understood that the best quality and most productive "work" anyone can contribute is in the nature of a playfulness which they enjoy. So basically the more someone does something, the more instinctive the doing becomes. Many people who became successful in a nonconventional way managed to do so because they refused to submit to society's expectations of them. Marx, Lenin, Huey Newton, they were full time agitators. They didn't work a 9-5. And they were very successful leaders and human rights heroes. If you enjoy what you do, you'll naturally do a better job.
The problem is essentially that the oligarchs have an Aristotelian perspective of society: they believe in one class of men who must rule, and another class of men who must be ruled over by force. Rather than uplifting man to a higher cultural standard they want to degrade him. It's republicanism versus oligarchy.
Ironically, slavery is bad economics. Our overlords would profit MORE if they invested in the neoplatonic conception of man as imago viva dei. Henry C Carey wrote a lot about this, he was Lincoln's economist.
