Comprende?
The trouble with history is that we tend to focus on the least identifiable characters. To an extent, i mean go back to hunter gatherer times, we don't, we call this period pre-history.
But what were most people doing in western europe and northern Africa when Julius Caesar was walking around? Most people were toiling the fields.
See what I'm saying? Probably not. But it's the old ordinary versus special causes, and we are for the most part blind to ordinary causes. Let's say 5% of the population are especially influential. Then 95% are ordinarily influential. The 5% don't regularly occur and so we notice both them and their impact. A "management by exception " approach.
Most of us live quite ordinary lives resembling quite closely many other people.
Here though is the point, look at a serf or a slave 600 years ago, what did their lives comprise of?
Days of toil to sustain their existence, support their family and pay taxes to the church. Reduce that further, you have people toiling away in service to an imaginary being. (Even allowing one of the major religions to be true leaves the majority of people serving an imaginary being.)
Now look to modern western life. What has changed?
People toil in service to imaginary beings. Just the details change. The gods are corporations, for the most part, legal entities whose interests most people dedicate most of their waking hours to. No more real than the pantheon of gods were.
The elites derive their authority from these persons, but are still subject to time and chance.
This is no conspiracy this is a habit we possess, perhaps no different than our ability to engage in sport or root for fictitious characters.
Get what I'm saying?
