If you want to understand why the status quo is unraveling, start
by examining the feudal structure of our society, politics and economy.
The revelations coming to light about Hollywood Oligarch Harvey
Weinstein perfectly capture the true nature of our status quo: a
rotten-to-the-core, predatory, exploitive oligarchy of dirty secrets and dirty
lies protected by an army of self-serving sycophants, servile toadies on the
make and well-paid legal mercenaries. Predators aren't an aberration of the Establishment;
they are the perfection of the Establishment, which protects abusive,
exploitive predator-oligarchs lest the feudal injustices of life in America be revealed for all to see.
The predators reckon their aristocratic status in Hollywood/D.C.
grants them a feudal-era droit du seigneur (rights
of the lord) to take whatever gratifications they desire from any female who
has the grave misfortune to enter their malefic orbit.
Anyone who protests or makes efforts to go public is threatened
by the oligarch's thugs and discredited/smeared by the oligarch's
take-no-prisoners legal mercenaries. (Recall the Clintons' Crisis Management
Team tasked with crushing any Bimbo Eruptions,
i.e. any eruptions of the truth about Bill's well-known-to-insiders
predation of the peasantry.)
The dirty secret is that the oh-so-hypocritical power elites of
Hollywood and Washington D.C. circle the wagons to protect One of Their Own
from being unmasked. The first weapons of choice in this defense are (as noted
above) threats from thugs, discrediting the exploited via the oligarchy's paid
goons and lackeys in the mainstream media and dirty lies about what a great and
good fellow the oligarch predator is. The last line of defense is a hefty bribe
to silence any peasant still standing after the oligarchs' onslaught of
threats, smears and lies.
Should the worst happen and some sliver of the truth emerge
despite the best efforts of the thugs, corporate media, legal mercenaries and
PR handlers, then the playbook follows the script of any well-managed Communist
dictatorship: the oligarch predator is thrown to the wolves to protect the
oligarchs' systemic predation and exploitation of the peasantry/debt-serfs.
Just as in a one-party Communist dictatorship, an occasional
sacrificial offering is made to support the propaganda that the predators are
outliers rather than the only possible output of a predatory,
exploitive feudal status quo comprised of a small
elite of super-wealthy and powerful oligarchs at the top and all the powerless
debt-serfs at the bottom who must do their bidding in bed, in the boardroom, in
the corridors of political power, and in the private quarters of their yachts
and island hideaways.
Media reports suggest that the real reason Mr. Weinstein has
been fired is not his alleged conduct over the past 27 years but his loss of
the golden touch in generating movie-magic loot for the oh-so-liberal and
politically correct Hollywood gang that was pleased to protect Mr. Weinstein
when he was busy enriching them.
What's truly noteworthy here is not the sordid allegations and
history of payoffs--it's the 27 years of intense protection the Hollywood/
media /D.C. status quo provided, despite hundreds of insiders knowing the
truth. Just as hundreds of insiders with top secret clearance
knew about the contents of the Pentagon Papers, and thus knew the Vietnam War
was little more than an accumulation of official lies designed to protect the
self-serving elites at the top of the power pyramid, only one analyst had the
courage to risk his career and liberty to release the truth to the American
public: Daniel Ellsberg.
Why are we not surprised that Hollywood, the corporate media and
Washington D.C. lack even one courageous insider?
If you want to understand why the status quo is unraveling, start
by examining the feudal structure of our society, politics and economy, and
the endemic corruption, predation and exploitation of the privileged oligarchs
at the top.
Then count the armies of self-serving sycophants, toadies,
lackeys, hacks, apologists, flunkies, careerists and legal-team mercenaries who
toil ceaselessly to protect their oligarch overlords from exposure.
Open your eyes, America: there are two systems of "justice":
one for the wealthy and powerful oligarchs, and an overcrowded gulag of serfs
forced to plea-bargain in the other. If John Q. Public had done
the deeds Mr. Weinstein is alleged to have done, Mr. Public would have long
been in prison.
As Orwell observed about a totalitarian oligarchy, some are more equal than
others.
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