Those in power make decisions based upon cold calculations and detached logic. This is no more evident than in America, where the proper precautions against Covid-19 were not taken because of strictly economic considerations.
Since America represents nothing more than a seedy marketplace filled with smelly spices, incomprehensible languages, and shady scams, where solidaristic bonds which create common identities and sympathies among the masses do not exist, it was decided that hundreds of thousands of people should effectively be sacrificed to the alter of commerce -- the official, state religion.
On the highest plains of government, it was debated just how many people it would be acceptable to have killed in the pandemic relative to economic output, and the answer seems to have been quite a considerable amount given that America is the only country on earth where the pandemic still remains a severe crisis, and one that is increasing by the day, no less.
It is a massive scandal that the rulers of the country view its citizens to be so expendable; but as we know, this is par for the course and it applies to other contexts as well. And I argue that mass-shootings are a part of this.
When a plutocrat sees a spree-shooter who kills a dozen or so people at a Wal-Mart, he must reflect on how the person who perpetuated the shooting was actually mitigated in his effect by the fact that he's socially alienated, and society did not provide him the means through which to collectivize with other people, and say, lynch the plutocrat himself and his fellow bloodsuckers.
He is slightly disturbed by the dozen or so cattle who were butchered and can no longer pay taxes and consume products, but with a view for the "big picture," he becomes content. For this is merely "collateral damage" in the war to alienate and estrange the masses, and so maximize their exploitation. A few cattle may intermittently pop-off in resentment, but they aren't hurting anybody but other cattle, and even if they do set their sights on more relevant targets, power is so dispersed in the capitalist system that there is, in fact, no critical blow that can be landed! Power is firmly secured, and the plutocrat sleeps well at night.
Since America represents nothing more than a seedy marketplace filled with smelly spices, incomprehensible languages, and shady scams, where solidaristic bonds which create common identities and sympathies among the masses do not exist, it was decided that hundreds of thousands of people should effectively be sacrificed to the alter of commerce -- the official, state religion.
On the highest plains of government, it was debated just how many people it would be acceptable to have killed in the pandemic relative to economic output, and the answer seems to have been quite a considerable amount given that America is the only country on earth where the pandemic still remains a severe crisis, and one that is increasing by the day, no less.
It is a massive scandal that the rulers of the country view its citizens to be so expendable; but as we know, this is par for the course and it applies to other contexts as well. And I argue that mass-shootings are a part of this.
When a plutocrat sees a spree-shooter who kills a dozen or so people at a Wal-Mart, he must reflect on how the person who perpetuated the shooting was actually mitigated in his effect by the fact that he's socially alienated, and society did not provide him the means through which to collectivize with other people, and say, lynch the plutocrat himself and his fellow bloodsuckers.
He is slightly disturbed by the dozen or so cattle who were butchered and can no longer pay taxes and consume products, but with a view for the "big picture," he becomes content. For this is merely "collateral damage" in the war to alienate and estrange the masses, and so maximize their exploitation. A few cattle may intermittently pop-off in resentment, but they aren't hurting anybody but other cattle, and even if they do set their sights on more relevant targets, power is so dispersed in the capitalist system that there is, in fact, no critical blow that can be landed! Power is firmly secured, and the plutocrat sleeps well at night.
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