History tells us that civilizations rise and fall. Typically the nation state rises as it conquers the surrounding countryside and resources. Peoples are assimilated into this. The cycle is to pioneer the frontier, civilize the outlands, redistribute the resources and wealth, centralize power and distribution of the wealth, and tax production until the resources are overrun and go into decline. Concurrently government and its infrastructure further burdens the populace and the available natural resources.
Fast forward to today. We no longer make anything, as individuals, from the natural resources. Corporations have been formed to do most of that bidding with a scant few “hardy individualists” left to attempt it solo. With this love of the corporeal entity has come a furtherance of the civil and criminal rights of the non-human to the point of creating two civilizations.
If the corporation cannot feel pain and is only obligated to generate wealth at any expense then it is free of the normal human encumbrances like pain, hunger, love, empathy, and many other such feelings. Running roughshod over people and protecting their well being is not in corporate policy for the most part. Policy is sculpted to provide legal protections and not human protections.
The work of the marketeers, spindoctors, and politicos then becomes catering to the deep pockets of the corporations. Altered states of awareness are pushed onto the masses by every means imaginable in order to gain acceptance for the behavior of businesses and their representatives.
The general population is kept distracted by finance, need, manufactured want, and entertainment. As in Roman times; bread and circuses. Today it is popcorn, nuts, beer, hot dogs, halftime shows, and sporting events. And it is all sponsored by the corporeal entities.
Two civilizations exist and the general population is NOT the one benefiting the most from the experience.
It brings to mind the way the Taliban wants to rule Afghanistan — under educate and indoctrinate. Our public schools no longer emphasize critical thinking let alone imbue students with the necessary foundations on which students are capable of independent and informed decisions. Adding insult to injury, those few who are dedicated educators fight never ending battles on behalf of students at there own peril. We now have a new generation that embraces collectivism, as opposed to community, without understanding the roots of each and what either means. Enter the corporations with their bottom-lines who can easily distract and hypnotize the masses into paying despite having no budget, consuming without thinking, working without asking and dying without living.