Tamari Kitossa

Nullius in verba (On the word of no one)! Denial (plausible or otherwise), disinformation, half-truths, misinformation and outright lies, as noted by Howard Becker, are prerequisites for governments and the administrative class of the deep state (let’s not forget the espionage agencies!) to rule the masses of people. As noted by Lewis Mumford, it has been this way since the predatory military elites, with the aid of their ideologists, the clerics (i.e., intellectuals), established the first proto-states over 5500 years ago. Since then, every state formation has been a running a protection racket as Charles Tilly argued. That central administration for imposing the will of the minority on the majority is aided and abetted by a cabal banksters, oligarchs, clerics and intellectuals, the warrior caste, monarchs and politicians –all existing in fractious collusion while trampling the masses. How and why these human predators are successful is a difficult, intricate and long-debated question. I will attempt to summarize the arguments in a future post.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. Facts of recent history and observation in daily life suggest that for many people obedience may be a deeply ingrained behavior tendency, indeed, a prepotent impulse overriding training in ethics, sympathy, and moral conduct. Stanley Milgram. Obedience to Authority: An experimental view. 2009, p. 1