The internet is full of outlandish, cartoon-sounding conspiracies about a ring of satanic pedophiles running the government, anti-semitic theories about a certain ethnic group controlling everything, and even the idea of pizza places having secret sex dungeons underneath them where people are being abused or the ruling class being a bunch of lizard-people from space. When you stay consistent with your medications, you begin to realize the huge contradictions and issues in these theories. These people are correct to feel as if there is a corrupt elite pulling the strings in the United States, but their entire breakdown of why they feel that way relies on fantastical thinking, metaphysics, illogical thinking, cherry picking of facts and distortion of evidence to suit whatever they are trying to convince people of.
When we look at things from a dialectical viewpoint and begin thinking of more down to earth reasons for why the ruling class behaves in the ways they do, we have no need for illuminati theories or ideas of an alien race making deals with the governments of the world. The whole theory about satanic pedophiles controlling society is a fundamental misunderstanding of how bourgeois operate. They throw everyone else under the bus to increase their own profits, and if people then see this and desire socialism that means class struggle is taking place.
There is an element of criminality and abusiveness to the bourgeoisie, but this is more due to their wealth and subsequent impunity to the law in many cases. Jeffrey Epstein was a level 3 sex offender due to sexual exploitation of teenagers he committed in 2005 by paying them large sums of money. He was not harmed by this as a normal person would be because he had so much money and the law basically bent to his interest. He did not even follow up with the police department as other sex offenders would need to. Donald Trump would be in jail right now for sedition and if he was not a billionaire former president, and many activists end up political prisoners tortured in US jails for doing a thousandth of what that man did. Even Zionism, a criminal ideology comparable to apartheid or fascism, is made mainstream because the bourgeoisie benefit from it and will never use their own legal system to suppress it.
Why do the bourgeoisie do things that are against the law? Because they can. Because breaking the laws that an average person would have their lives ended for doing, is a status symbol for them. They can even afford the best lawyers if that’s what it comes down to. If the bourgeoisie got together over tea and bragged about how many felonies they got away with due to their wealth, I would not be surprised.
The average person believing in conspiracies is probably aware of all the things I said in the past few paragraphs, but they do not want to believe that millionaires are inherently bad, probably because they imagine themselves being that wealthy or desire themselves to be. They have no class consciousness, so they imagine the elites to be lizard-people from outer space. They imagine the elites as having made a pact with the devil or some ancient deity for wealth. They think about everything except that maybe the kind of personality who gets rewarded by capitalism through exploitation, landlordism, colonialism and upholding the bourgeois system is not morally good and is inherently predisposed towards the antisocial behaviors that they are infamous for.
I very much agree that there is an aspect of people wanting to believe that the current system fundamentally works. I’d add another aspect to this from the perspective of thermodynamics. People build up their world view over many years, and every new idea has to integrate with our existing beliefs. Integration of radical ideas that demand a significant restructuring of our mental models, such as challenging deeply held religious beliefs or political ideologies, can be deemed “too expensive” from an energetic standpoint. The strength of the argument alone may not be enough to overcome the inherent inertia of our entrenched belief systems. Effective persuasion requires acknowledging the existing web of ideas and demonstrating how the new concept can be integrated in a way that strengthens, rather than disrupts, the overall structure.
So, when people are presented with a philosophical framework like Marxism-Leninism that requires them to effectively rethink how the world works, or a crazy conspiracy about lizard people, that lets them keep their beliefs largely intact, then they go for the lizard people every time.
However, when their material conditions start to decline, then there’s a tangible negative effect associated with continuing to buy into the current system. At this point, the cost of restructuring their ideas becomes more palatable, hence why economic decline tends to quickly radicalize people.
Good fucking post comrade. This is something I have been wanting to write about for a long time as part of larger post about the dialectics of fascism and how it has wormed its way around the world, mutating each time it infects or reinfects a region.
Cognitive dissonance is real!
we have no need for illuminati
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