Victimhood is the new way to dominate. In our somewhat less than sophisticated past, the way to conquer was to do so with aggression, with brute force. Blood would be shed and land would be taken. Division was a must.
In today's world, this still exists, but is so often rebranded as freedom fighting, fighting oppression, fighting for equality, fighting for rights, fighting climate change. The list in endless. But notice the choice of words: it's all about fighting, and it all still relies on division, although division of opinion rather and a geographical drifting apart.
Humankind's underlying preference for the rights of one's own kind and mindset hasn't gone away, and it's no different regardless of whether you're white, black, gay, male, female, overweight, underweight, a dog owner, a criminal, a drug addict or any of the other million and one groups of which all of us belong to at least several.
Depending upon which groups you belong to determine how useful you are to the Establishment in creating a society which fights amongst itself, which ultimately implodes, where blood will be shed and where maximum control will need to be exercised before peace will finally ensue, and even then, only through sheer force on part of the Establishment.
If you're a militant feminist, you serve the purpose of lobbying government and providing them with an excuse to restrain the progress of, and indeed provoke the aggression of, the average working male. If you're Asian, you serve the purpose of becoming one of the footsoldiers professionally agitated and manipulated by Unite Against Fascism in order to provoke the white working classes up north into fight mode. If you're black and living in Hackney, you're constantly told that not enough is being done to help you succeed. In fact you hear it so many times you may end up starting to believe it. You may end up not succeeding purely because the Establishment has spent so long telling you and the rest of the world that you can't. Do you think schools in Hackney have improved educationally? If you're gay, you have to endure front page coverage and blow by blow accounts of homophobic attacks, to a point where you believe that you're simply not safe on the streets. Any streets.
We're all pawns in the same game. But what's the purpose of all this?
I have pondered this for a long time. What would really be the point in having so many minorities constantly battling for the spotlight, throwing all others behind them in their wake? What would be the point in ignoring any significant majorities? Remember, we all belong to several groups within society, we have split loyalties and often scrambled favouritism because of this.
Several purposes could exist for the above questions, actually.
Firstly, a society that finds its own feet and learns to live together (relatively) peacefully needs nothing much doing with it, apart from the odd bit of law enforcement and laws tweaked and drafted as and when needed. It's almost self governing when you think about it. I mean, what would be the point of a big government with fingers in so many pies if there was so little for them to address, so little for them to do.
Secondly, there's the control aspect. A society full of groups feeling completely alienated from one another is more likely to be an aggressive one. People will get hurt. Those from the groups who feel most victimised will come out fighting harder, more venomously than those they are told to believe are their opposition.
They need policing, they need surveying. Government bodies are set up to mediate and, on a publicly visible level, eventually alleviate the prejudice in question. Surveillance techniques, think tanks, pressure groups, charities (who receive government funding) and police initiatives are all set up to achieve this.
But the truth is, the government don't want to achieve equality. There are now so many jobs available in the equality and rights inkdustries, so many outspoken voices highlighting isolated cases of racist and homophobic attacks, that the government simply won't scale down such a useful set of new institutions when their sole genuine purpose, regardless of whether or not they know it, is to allow government to get bigger and mightier. More influential. More justified in intervening and snooping on every aspect of your life in the name of defending another minority. More justified in the aforementioned provocation of some minorities in the name of benefiting others.
It's perpetual though, because no matter what you say, do or legislate, someone will always get offended.
Put simply, the government relies on us fighting one another, pushing and shoving our way to the front of the queue for their attention. They want us to ask for help as it justifies them intruding further into our lives. They can tell us it's what we wanted. To justify them knowing every last detail about you. After all, you could be a racist, a homophobe, a preacher of hatred, a Tory voter, a BNP voter, a climate change “denier”, a Tesco shopper, a Sainsbury's shopper. The list goes on.
But you can rest assured that when you're at your next BNP rally or UAF street meet, you're being used and manipulated for purposes not in your own interests. You're furthering the justification for a lack of personal and group liberty only seen in staunch communist states. You're furthering the wants of the Establishment.
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