Breaking Sage: How on Earth did We Get Here?
Sage Meets a Real Sage *A Wholly Separate Person, Not Me*: You'll Laugh, You'll Cry. You'll Buy a Ko-fi.
Amateur hour Sage (Me)
To see how we got here requires a few root premises.
1. Humans are not "good" by nature.
2. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
3. Sociopathy or perhaps just simple selfishness is rewarded. "Greed is good" to quote Wall Street logic. Supposedly psychopaths (sociopaths? Distinction?) are favorably selected for corporate leadership positions and…dunno, bankers.
4. The closer you are to Power the more that Power bends you to its will. And Power has been consolidated on a global scale and because being "good" or "decent' didn't necessarily overlap with "success"…money and power then flowed into fewer and fewer sociopathic hands. This now comprises the Global Oligarchy of Maniacs and Sociopaths.
Already plenty far gone into madness and now wholly removed from the ants they intend to burn up with a magnifying glass. No bueno!
5. Incentive structures can then be set up by Sociopaths. They can create bureaucracies and “foundations” that can move the world around like chess pieces, and also largely remove the non-sociopathic working stiffs from the results of their actions.
Basically the logic of the Robert Malone video where he was saying that many of the FDA people are "good family people, who like a good paycheck" and thus...don't make waves.
(And that clip will never age well, Doc. Sorry.)