pecking order

PECKING ORDER

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note: I put this in yesterdays comments and thought I should add it here for more eyeballs.

There is a video on PVC testing for bows. It seems a lot of manufactures have Gone Cheap and they are getting more brittle. Take the pipe, whole, not yet flattened down with heat or stuffed with reinforcing fiberglass rods, and tap the end with a hammer, against a chunk of metal. If the pipe chips off, don't use it as a bow. If the hammer bounces back, it is good.
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You should check out www.epsilontheory.com.  Sometimes it makes your brain hurt, but he is THAT good.  The recent article was on the pecking order of chickens and humans.  Ours has been disguised so that the violence is hidden, but in short, chickens further inequality of food with their pecking order and humans encourage inequality of wealth ( which is used to buy food and health care and shelter ) through the pecking order.  He gives the example from two movies, Glengarry Glen Ross and Office Space.  In the first, “second place is a set of steak knives and third place is You’re Fired” and in the second, there wasn’t enough birthday cake to go around.

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The first movie shows the blatant punishment of all for the benefit of the few.  This is NOT how our pecking order works.  Instead, as in the second movie, we are all given comfortable chairs and cake ( except a few, who get neither cake, offices, OR staplers-seriously?  Watch the movie.  I’ve never seen a better depiction of corporate culture ).  The problem with our fantasy depiction of the pecking order is that we are lulled gently to sleep as inequality has relentlessly marched towards French Revolution levels ( I’m not trying to engage in hyperbole here.  As long as the safety net of welfare and the bread and circuses of corn derivatives and Net delivered TV last, inequality is for most people a non-event.  It is the brutal aftermath of their demise I speak of ).

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Another problem is not just the Elite directed propaganda.  It is our own self-delusions, as we lie to ourselves that the pecking order doesn’t exist.  I try to point out the history of this, and rather than thanked profusely by getting a ticket tape parade, I’m accused by far more than one of having a convoluted and queer interpretation of history.  I don’t blame anyone for wishing to skip my view of history.  It means all your comfortable assumptions are wrong.  And we can’t have that, now can we?  Nobody likes to admit they’ve been eating out of their own ass. 

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But this isn’t a dingus measuring contest.  I love to think I’m always right ( although believe me, I know better ).  But that isn’t the point.  If you fail to see the threats, you leave yourself vulnerable.  And you can get hurt.  All I’m doing here is trying to get you to view history through the lens of a paranoid.  You think I’m a paranoid schizophrenic.  No, JUST paranoid.  And the fact of the matter is that you or I, we are NOT special, or equal or gifted with God given rights or are exceptional or are Baby Jesus’ chosen few.  We are just at the bottom of the pecking order ( in our society, if not in the global ranking-although that will come soon enough ).

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The poor have stayed poor, the rich are much richer and the middle class has lost everything gained, a few debt ridden doo-dads and electronic contraptions away from being poor.  Again, I’m not saying the New French Revolution is right around the corner.  Losing the middle class is merely a return to a historical norm.  The middle class is just a colonial empires temporary holders of excess surplus.  As the surplus shrinks, those in power have no choice but to withdraw that surplus so they themselves don’t have to suffer.  And hell, we haven’t even really had a real middle class for many decades now ( not just the last decade since the ‘08 collapse ).  House equity, an illusion only fostered by surplus anyway, were the only assets the middle class had ( electronic promises of stored wealth such as pensions were always fairy dust ), leaving them with nothing but debt to pretend they weren’t poor.

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The whole point here is that your position in the pecking order is clear but you choose not to see it.  All your life’s work is endangered by that illusion being realized.  But denial simply means you don’t see the danger now, giving you time to react with a modicum of insurance to make the inevitable crash more of a slide than a free-fall.  You cling to the debt toys which enslave you.  You are working like a dog to service your debt.  Only the bankers appreciate it ( the wife doesn’t appreciate it, but in fact expects it.  And guess what?  Second prize with her is NOT a set of steak knives.  You’re fired! ).

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The Protestant Work Ethic is only rewarded in a middle class.  Which is only possible through colonial surplus resources.  And our colonies are already imperiled by the collapse of the PetroDollar.  I can’t see an entire alphabet worth of cause and effect links.  I’m just showing you A, B and C.  I can see them as self evident.  You aren’t seeing them because you don’t believe in the pecking order for people.  You think because The Constitution or God or Natural Law said so, you are equal.  You believe that because the illusion was always reinforced through your life by a share of the wealth.  You think the pie will always get bigger.

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Well, guess what?  The pie is shrinking.  How folks can both believe they need to prepare for the end of a civilization, AND think they won’t be effected by the withdrawal of resources at the same time is beyond my comprehension.  Well, I can comprehend the need to lie to ourselves.  Self-delusion is a human trait.  No one blames you for acting human.  I just think that if you have any amount of self preservation, you could see through your own lies at least to a small degree.  But instead, you call me full of crap for thinking everyone is out to get you, to hump you dry until you gush blood.  You think people are “fair” or “just” or “fundamentally good”.  Have you been living under a rock your whole life? 

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Donald Trump is only out for himself.  Just like Hilary Clinton.  The central bank doesn’t care about a stable money supply, but about its own payday.  The NRA doesn’t care if you are allowed to own a gun, they just want your membership dues.  Your boss doesn’t care if you work eighty hours a week, have a nervous breakdown and die early or get divorced and lose your kids.  He only cares if HIS paycheck is fattened.  I won’t even start on your family’s attitude.  I’m glad I used to be trusting and needy for love or approval.  I got screwed enough times as a result that my blinders, if not removed, were at least nudged aside.  You mean NOTHING to most people.

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Once we re-tribe, yes, your efforts will once again be rewarded and your security assured, unquestioned loyalty the only price.  But above that level of organization, there is a pecking order and those on the bottom are literally pecked to death ( if you don’t think tens to hundreds of thousands don’t die yearly JUST on the medical industry profit plan, you haven’t been paying attention ).  If you can’t see that, you can’t protect yourself.

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