@SilverbladeTE
And gold sinks
It's the horribly superior colonial attitude of the ruling establishment that gets me, the public boarding schooling system doesn't help - they've had the humanity buggered out of them before they're out of long trousers! They are taught to crave and abuse power by the institutions that raise them - I'd pity them if they didn't cause such harm.
Yup :/ Ian Duncan Smith is classic example of it, in times past he'd have been sent to some awful post in middle of nowhere that his incompetence could cause too much problem, no Empire anymore so he ends up in charge of things he shouldn't
man was so incompetent in the army his C.O. used him as a "gopher" and the ProvoIRA refused to kill him, jeesh
UK's "public school" (that is, high priced very stuffy private education to Americans) all set up a system where sadistic and sexual abuse was common place, "Elites" wanted their kids to be basically psychopaths, traded them for political favours etc so resulting in the ugliness we know exists now, no matter how much they desperately cover it up
And then they expect us to trust them with nuclear weapons or running the country?! Wouldn't trust them with a Nerf Bat never mind a Trident missile!
During WW1, that mind set had their youth all being officers, because only the elite should lead...ah huh..which got them killed in droves. not all of 'em were bad, no, lot felt they should live up to the ideals, some were damn good, but the mentality/class consciousness etc only officers had special uniforms and carried pistols, well the German snipers had a field day so the officers got shot 4 to 7 times more likely on average than "other ranks"
which resulted in a "sea change" as so many were killed it wiped out lot of the "elite" families (good bloody riddance! but terrible loss to have the changes)
but, there's a push to undo the work done after those two wars, the Elite want unfettered rule again, and no "rule of law" to stop them.
I don't believe there's an single "new world order", yet, but just generalized desires of many Elites, oligarchs etc all brewing into a toxic tide, we're one part of that. Many things combined undermining Democracy, many problems being denied and covered up, leading to a huge catastrophe eventually, for example look at the problem with bees...
*said in a stuffy upper class accent*
"Oh no we cannot have the chemical companies inconvenienced! they pay Tory AND Labour party campaign contributions...all those environmentalists are bad for business!"
well, no bees = no Human Race...so I say F*** Monsanto etc
and who supports such who's against environmentalists? Spiked/Living Marxism now uber libertarians and the SMC etc
and today's thought
an oldy by me
if I'd know back then about the "piggy" incident I'd have said something about him relishing that "bacon flavour"...