From where I stand, these extremely wealthy men don’t see the rest of us, and play games of one upmanship among themselves. ‘I make more millions than you’, and so on…
The rich don't get happiness from owning wealth, they get happiness from aquiring it. Like how it feels good to buy a new car. They get addicted to that feeling, and want to aquire more and more to keep the dompaine rush flowing.
A polity is described as a middle ground between an aristocracy and a democracy. Somehow we have managed to find the bastard child of democracy and oligarchy without any of the virtues of a polity.
I was taught this in college. That was 50 years ago. Since it’s no longer taught, it’s apparent that the oligarchs have been working towards their goals over the years. Most likely so the populace wouldn’t notice. And here we are today.
Indeed. Most of us that saw it coming and tried to alert everybody were dismissed as fringe. And now here we are. There’s only one thing left to do …. ORGANIZE!!!
They have people focused on the fear of LGBTQ+ and immigrants instead. Social media is destroying real democracy by getting people focused on outrage rather than truth.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless" -Thomas Jefferson
Yes I think this quote is spurious but... This is part of a letter to John Tailor in 1816 "And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale"
The trick is in the word "our" You and I are NOT apart of THEIR "our". So what they speak is true. But its for us plebs to figure that part out, its not OUR democracy, its THEIRS and they spit that in our faces daily.
More specifically, the unelected administrative state serves the interests of the oligarchs while the citizens are generally asked to pick between one side that sells the general public on the idea of progress and the other side that sells the people on the idea of restoring normalcy.
The United States ia, and always has been, an oligarchy. However a few things have changed since Aristotle. First, the American poor are not getting tougher. They're getting fatter and dumber. They're also more gullible. The notion that an obvious grifter like Trump can deliver them from oligarchy would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. Second, in Aristotle's time there could be no such thing as a birth dearth. A new twist is that it's mainly the rich with many children. Third, American oligarch's are not letting their children degenerate. They usually have a tougher, more rigorous upbringing than the children of poor people. Finally, letting little people play with guns is a brilliants strategy. It allows powerless men to delude themselves they have power, to fantasize about "taking our country back" all of which stops them from really organising. The little people mainly shoot themselves or each other. Lyndon Johnson put it best how easy it is to manipulate lower middle-class and poor white men: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you"
As long as we are taught to use dualism (Right or Left) to understand power, we will always be Divided and Conquered. The oligarchy's wet dream is to rule the masses with one world government. It's not unity, it is imprisonment. There is no integrity or trust in their idea of a perfect world.
Yeah well, first we need them to realize that a lying, irredeemable, draft dodging, narcissistic, sociopath adulterer is not qualified to become president. The explanation in the video is spot on, but it would be advance level rocket science for the maga morons.
Perfect description of the US today. My sis explained it perfectly: we are all cheering for our perceived team. We cheer when “we” win. What we don’t comprehend: we aren’t even in the game. 😕
The wealth convinced the middle and lower class to look sideways instead of up. It was never about powerless marginalized groups taking the little someone had. Or left or right politics. It was about the rich fleecing the poor.
@@doublecrossedswine112 Indigenous cultures value the old and spiritually reasonable, persumably similar to the caste system of India. While still elites, people can't take the power of the old nor the spirits because there isn't such a process.
All G7 countries for sure plus all countries such as the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, South Korea etc. Basically all that like calling themselves developed countries
'And now, just open your eyes, and look around you. If any of this somehow resonnates with your current sense of the world to whatever degree you can notice, then you might just be smack-dab in the middle of it! (the All-I-garchy, that is)'.
I went through this during my education of the public school system. In the fourth grade I was starting to learn about the western days. fifth grade Greek mythology which now introduces all of the men and a lot of Gods. Remember people here were into bestialities', Minotaur, sheeple, and Horseman. Then came the English rule of knights and witches. To bring us here in rainbow village. Where we start it all again for the littles ones to start living like beasts.
A 14-minute review of a big book is not a full description and does not warrant a sweeping conclusion and undescribed plan of action. This is age of corporate wealth evolved from the Industrial Revolution. The "big corporate oligarchy" is not a monolith. It is made up of individuals who have differing opinions and actions. For example, Musk is obviously supporting Trump, a business man who knows how to build a system and produce product followed by increase in revenue. Anther is Zuckerberg who bowed to perceived authority and then reversed and announced his participation, perhaps out of moral dissonance. Who knows about Amazon's leader who seems more interested in building muscle and dating women who go out in public half naked. Other examples abound. The point is that Aristotle is describing a system of building to possible corruption based on observations, much like an anthropologist today. In Ancient Athens Greece, the checkpoints and balance systems did not, or rarely, existed. We do have system of checks and balances the Founding Fathers build into the Constitution based on centuries of examples and their reasoned study of governmental systems. Systems are not perfect and will go out of balance, but a check system can bring things back into steady pattern. Human nature influencing a system results in it going off center and then the same human nature can reverse and equalize a system; physics of movement can explain this process, too. We must observe, too, that this video is written not as the last word on Aristotle, but as a shaded editorial piece using Aristotle to make social commentary on today's situation, which is the situation of societies throughout history. What they did not have is the Constitution. I would suggest a deep read of Aristotle and Plato as well as a deep read into history before jumping to an observation and proposing an action. Action proposals without clear plans tested by feasibility studies is just as bad as an oligarchy rising to power. Micro oligarchies are popping up all of the time; sometimes bubbles collect to form a super bubble, but these burst because they exceed their capacity to expand. Thought is like this, too; a reaction is not helpful. Education on a subject can create a broader view and insight than relying on a shaded opinion of a video, regardless of its source.
@@katherineozbirn6622you mention checks and balances in the system of the USA. And I agree those checks and balances should brings things to equilibrium. But I would also counter with at this point in our history those checks have begin to become corrupted. Yes bubbles come and go. But each cycle makes bigger and bigger swings back and forth. We the humble regular people, the poor and middle class, worry more about getting caught in the crossfire before it finds the middle again. The bigger the bubble the more collateral damage it causes.
@@katherineozbirn6622 USA rules the world and they're not fair. Someone is in La la la land. Trump and Musk are just part of the ecosystem. The inability to see World Bank, IMF with a clear view is baffling. Aristote studied the Greeks who actually ruled the world. USA are the Democracy police for a reason. Is it a coincidence that most of the rich people are in the USA? I hope people see the state of virtue among the American go getters who would step on their neighbour for a few dollars and fame.
@@katherineozbirn6622USA are ruling the world. When you think about power.... Think about the world in relation to USA. Aristotle looked at Greece because they ruled the world. I know Americans think their way is THE WAY until it isn't.
I find it interesting how many modern politicians praise democracy with their speeches but with their actions they clearly endorse oligarchy. Maybe they view democracy as an unthreatening alternative which can be easily controlled? I've never heard any politician discuss the benefits of monarchy or aristocracy.
They choose democracy because it is an intrinsically inclusive system, a citizen of a democracy has political franchise and is therefore not a subject of a government and when the people are (or at least believe they are) the political authority they don't revolt.
I am Canadian. I have periodically received some e-mails & phone calls from some of your country's nobility. They were often asking me for money. I must be special.
Nigeria is a very characteristic case of an oligarchy controlling oil resources. Arab oil countries are tyrannies or oligarchies as well since the oil welth geta crazily condensed to them and the people dont appear to have very much benefit from the huge amount of oil.
Erich Fromm warned in "To Have or To Be" that when a person identifies themselves with what they own then they live in constant fear of losing what they own and thus losing who they are.
thanks. Good spark. I’m at this crossroad. This constant pursuit for money and security is stooping me from letting go and being what i want to be and doing what i want to do.
The US has been an oligarchy since the Civil War, a war not about slavery but about power and control. The oligarchs are careful to call the US a "democracy," that degenerate form of government. They read Aristotle. So, now you know the rest of the story.
It's good to see that more and more people are waking up to what an oligarchy is and how it applies to our own country. And I'm not just talking about the United States.
Currently in America, neither citizens nor politicians drive policy. Being an old dude in his sixties, I've seen our once representational republic slowly become our present day Oligarchy. This is great video. It explains so much so clearly and concisely. Thank you!
It's funny how you claim to have seen it change. When the Oligarchy was in place at the turn of the last century and got their way with the creation of the Fed. Read prof. Carroll Quigley, he was bill clinton's mentor.
@@geronimo4511 it certainly explains the dumbing down of the USA. The education system keeps getting worse, the culture keeps lurching into ever greater stupidity.
Not modern world, simply human nature. Or show me a human, _humane_ society...We are just one step Baboons, who kill each other, while we hire others...
@@madworldisrael7584 Not quite. The founding fathers clearly made efforts to create checks and balances to prevent this from happening. But they're just men like the rest of us--they're not perfect. Admirable attempt.
@@svendays the system was quite good, but when all is said and done it got infected with too much democracy. It was all too easy after that to manipulate the masses with promises of freebies and seize control. Once the electoral college falls, the supreme court will fall and that will be the end of the great experiment.
That is why Aristotle is one of the most studied philosophers. Aristotle helped form the basis for Western thought that includes logical thinking, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the workings of politics and power.
What is even worse is when the parasite class have so much money that they do not know what to do with it they turn to hunger for power and ABSLOLUTE detail control over all peoples lives...
We learned this in middle and high school. Tried to share this with people during this election. However, people find any way to refute it. He's so right to love his poorly educated. They served his purpose.
I dont think education matters. Knowledge is useless unless it's applied. You can educate them all you want but without the ability to think independently and lean to the side of reason, no amount of education matters
The uneducated continue to serve the purpose of all of them. And all of them serve the oligarchy. It doesn't matter which party. It doesn't matter if you're left or right or red or blue. Both parties are the wings that are controlled by the single head.
@@Some_Average_Joe But only one has already attempted a violent coup. Some people compare him to H***er, especially when you consider that the N*** party also had an unsuccessful coup before they got to power in 1933. Imo, this isn't a really accurate comparison though. If you have read anything Mussolini has published, you'll immediately see the parallels.
Trump is not just an oligarch. He is planning on being a tyrant and using the military and marshall law, and support from other dictators to enforce his will. Whether he gets his way depends on strength and cunning of the resistance.
Indeed 🧐 uneducated peasants allowed this to happen I didnt finish school but I persued higher education on my own Im glad im old because I wont have to live very long in this shameful state of the united states of America 😢
One hopeful development I've seen on a local level - our city announced a road expansion, with the destruction of numerous houses and local, small businesses in the newspaper as a fiat. One council member was quoted as saying, "If they won't sell their houses, we'll just take them by eminent domain." Cue local, effective rebellion. Meetings, petitions, protests at the next City Planning meeting, recall petitions and within 2 weeks of the announcement, the plan was cancelled. Groups that formed to oppose this action continue to monitor the situation and update the public to ensure that this isn't reintroduced once the publicity dies down. If we can extend effective action like this to larger cities, states and nationwide, we can protect the interests of the people over the greed of the few.
That's not the slam dunk you think it is. It depends on whether the road would benefit more people than it harmed. If it did, then those opposing it formed a small minority blocking something that's good for the majority. Nimbyism is rarely a good thing. It may not be oligarchy (although it usually is the same people that get their way, and then it kinda is an oligarchy), but it is closer to anarchy than to democracy.
@@lacdirk It was not NIMBY. The reasoning behind the need for the road and the placement of the road were not clearly beneficial to the community. There is a reason that nothing was presented to the public until it was presented as a done deal - as soon as the details were public neither the location nor the reasoning stood up to scrutiny. Other projects, like the building of a permanent farmer's market at a local park, were supported by the community and have been huge successes. Transparency is vital for a functional democracy. Trust us we know best is not a model citizens should follow.
@@KathieMihindukulasuriya I agree with the sentiment, but can obviously not judge on the situation itself. In general, though, local activism has a very bad record in countries like the UK, in making national, regional or even just metropolitan projects expensive and slow. HS2 didn't fail because it was a difficult engineering project, nor did it fail because it wouldn't be transformative for the country. I guess it depends on what you consider your community. If you think your community is just your family, your neighbourhood or your town, local activism can seem like a way to deliver democratically for the community. But if you widen your idea of community, it's an undemocratic way to thwart projects that would benefit that wider community.
@@lacdirk In this case, there wasn't really an impact on the wider community, state or country. It was a local road that wouldn't impact traffic in nearby towns or cities.
Thank you for your lesson in Oligarchy. I always assumed America isn't a democracy, but rather an oligarchy. Haven't heard a more fitting description about the political makeup of America and it's oligarchy system ever. Truly appreciate it!
@@rumplstiltztinkersteinWhat was based and what was known at the times hold true. You forgot that little tidbit, "Captain Obvious." And yet, Aristotle's observations on the very nature of both Governmental Politics and how it effects individuals who get into Government still holds true. Lord Acton best said it best: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Now, I guess that you're going to start correcting Lord Acton?????
@@southtexasprepper1837 Aristotle also said that the people in power shouldn't work because, according to him, working is bad for the mind. Aristotle said that the universe spin around earth. He also said that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. If Aristotle only made incorrect statements, nobody would care. But the fact that he makes a combination of good and bad statements in such a polished manner is why we should be careful about just memorizing everything he says. He doesn't test his statements. He just says what he feels according to his biases. And a lot of his biases are similar to ours. In other words, he says what we want to hear.
@rumplstiltztinkerstein I will repeat: What's your claim to fame????? If you're going to be such a critic of Aristotle, then post your own Video on UA-cam of Your Criticisms and have people start critiquing You. As they say: "The Gauntlet is on the floor. Let's see if You've got the courage to pick it up."
@@missshroom5512 My mom, who grew up in fascist Germany during the 1930's and came to this country in 1952 wisely said that unless the U.S. instituted campaign finance reform, the government would eventually be controlled by the corrupt, elite super-rich.
Give each candidate 20 to 30 minutes a day to stand and answer questions of what he/she believes and intends to do. No more no less. No PACs, no other special interest group, no outside money advertising. Most political ads, across the board are BS, outright lies and pointed tear down.
Pakistan is a tyranny controlled by the military, it's the gun which holds the political power, rich people like Malik Riaz often fall victim if the military turns against them. What Nawaz Sharif and Zardari wants to create is an Oligarchy
The Israelites asked God for a king in the Old Testament times instead of trusting God to rule over them so they could be like all of the other nations. Humans are sinners by nature so once this door was opened, we now have what we have today as far as governments and leaders. Government is a magnet for the incompetent and corrupt. As far as oligarchies, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This is actually really the most pleasant of surprises: I started watching almost through gritted teeth in anticipation of seeing Aristotle's great thought and forensic social, economic, and political analysis dumbed down to a level which misrepresented it. Instead, not only has what I have seen been faithful to what I read in the book but this video is actually VERY HARD-HITTING in a quiet, understated way. This is UA-cam (doubtlessly unintentionally) at its best. Enjoy until it 'disappears'. In any case, GREAT WORK! You just gained another subscriber.
I'm of similar mind.... the raw math is 50% of us are above and 50% below average 'IQ', this presentation is accessable to a broard group... I can tell.
The reason why ancient era Greek philosophers' words are timeless is because they studied human nature, by observation, intellectually-honest consideration and after much debate with open mindedness. Times change, human nature doesn't. However worse you think mankind is today (and I'd agree it is), it would be the same back then if these systems matured earlier. Once you get some grip of how humans behave and organize, and on top of that you start seeing all the historical eras and historical figures as true and natural human beings (instead of caricatures or "movie characters", as the modern media makes us see them today), everything starts making much more sense.
You might be interested to read 'Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think' by Hans Rosling et. al.
Firstly, humans like any species change until they are no longer themselves, so obviously "human nature" changes. Secondly, human behaviour is primarily determined by social systems and these depend on things like available resources and technologies. None of Politics explains the first 90% of human existence which is almost entirely egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands. Things changed when natural climate change and population growth created a pressure away from foraging to the less nutritious but more space-efficient agriculture whose invention was obviously a necessary precondition. Industry massively increased our productivity and the internet is massively increasing our capacity for deliberation on larger scales.
@@AcidCommunistAachen >humans like any species change There is no evidence for change. >human behaviour is primarily determined by social systems You rationalize your evasion of your immedately experienced power to focus or evade focusing. Nothing but you can cause your mind to focus or evade. Focus is the power that allows your mind to function. Unfocused reasoning is impossible.
I so much agree! Oligarchy has been the predominant control mechanism throughout recorded history. That doesn't make it a good thing, just a fact of our existence that we ourselves are charged with changing, if we have the will!😊
@@Trump2024asw what??? Historians will look back at GWOT as a spectacular display of imperial hubris (which is a great book btw). I see your name… Trump completely changed the culture inside of the Republican Party and made it ok to for conservatives to admit that GWOT was a mistake and completely spoke out against using our military for regime change and nation building.
One key difference between modern oligarchies and historical ones is that we now have a multinational one where oligarchs from different countries are vying for further control around the world. The conflict between the US, China and Russia, is not a conflict between different states but a conflict between the oligarchs of each respective society. Brexit, was ultimately a conflict between two different parts of the UK's oligarchy. Some wanting to maintain their relations with EU's oligarchs and others wanting to diverge from them. Inequality must end.
Many thanks for the writings of Aristotle, no wonder the classics is never taught in Australian schools. I’ve spent the last four years researching to come to the same conclusion that you have covered here in 15minutes. I’ll be studying the classics with what time is left to me. Thank you once again.
All this happens while the public sit back call their government incompetent. All unaware, these politicians ain't being incompetent. They're doing exactly what they meant to.
Not exactly. Your description applies to some. But many of them do what they CAN do. If they will oppose rich, media will destroy them and they won't be in office anymore. So they try to find some balance... anyway the fact that the state is weak against oligarchs and if the state can't control them, no one can and they rule our world.
Aristocrats or Oligarchs, May the best among us succeed.. No Rome shall burn down again, even if the Tyrants hold sway.. Somehow no Rome shall burn down like it once did centuries ago. The cage is too fortified thanks to modern education and the lack of land owners producing their own food.
To me this is the most confusing thing. Literally every choice they make enriches themselves. They never stop to ask the common man. With the technology today, we could literally have a policy voting app. The only job of these bureaucrats would be enact the voted policies. And yet we still go in with pen and paper and told our votes are counted towards our chosen candidate. They do whatever they want, and people still think they have a say. The only time we get what we want is when it aligns with their desires or to placate us.
@user-mx9pt4dr7y you watch too much corporate sponsored media. The "benevolent, independent main stream media" business model died with Bill Clinton. If you never ask questions, you never find out.
This is bigger than just the USA. This is Planet wide. Our governments are under the control and sway of the trillionaires. The "great reset" continues with the development of the brics alliance. The worlds economy, all of it in every form, is about to be reset into a new model where 99% of human kind will own nothing and never be allowed to. People are mostly sheep and will always follow the herdsmen into the abatoir.
He described most first world countries. Most hide their actions around virtue but it's just an excuse to gain control and shift their own people into power
The oligarchs of the 1800's gave us Teddy Roosevelt. We survived. The middle 2oth century, Reagan arrived -- who ruled better after his time in the wilderness after his failed 1st attempt for the presidential nomination. This century, we have Trump -- who, like Reagan before, has spent his time in the wilderness. Let us pray he helps shove the pendulum. We are fortunate we have term limits for president. Now for congressional term limits -- which we would already have had except Newt Gingrich never wanted term limits when he ran on his contract with America.
Princeton and other colleges have done studies proving the US is a plutocracy. To say we need to get money out of politics is an enormous understatement
9:20 Consider a "hypothetical" society where the government consistently bails out large corporations which hits the general population with inflation, higher tax... You funny Legendary Lore🤣
Same here in México and if we keep digging, the whole world, all societies are dominated and control by an oligarchy. Even in communist societies like Russia and China. Name one country where this in not the case, please. Is in our DNA. Great vid, Thanks! Greetings from CDMX.
Aristotle's idea of democracy was majority rule without safeguards for the political minority. That is why Thomas Jefferson, in reaction to the excesses of the French Revolution, told James Madison that the constitution needed to be amended with a Bill of Rights.
The Bill of Rights was added on because colonies noticed that it was missing and would not sign on to it until those individual protections were addressed.
The arguments for the Bill of Rights are far older and were ultimately required by the states. Remember the Federalist Papers were originally intended for and widely read in NY state, as was written by Jay and Hamilton both of whom were always in favor of centralized power. Go read the "Anti-Federalist Papers", Letters from a Federal Farmer and Brutus are good places to start when it comes to the arguments there in, Cato and Sentinel as well.
Didn't America start with "Articles of Confederation" in the 1783 era... then was found not to have enough centralized authority... which then lead to the "Constitution" meetings. Isn't that the way it evolved?
I read The Politics many years ago, and it's a work that has stuck with me. In many ways both Aristotle's _Ethics_ and his _Politics_ (and to a lesser extent the _Poetics)_ remain relevant to all times.
@Giantwaspface Yeah I see images and think "ok they just weren't diligent when sourcing stock images," then as I listen I think "...Is this *whole thing* AI?" So I check, and lo and behold, YT flagged it
Studying Economics in the 70s, a fundamental we learnt, monopolies were bad and oligopolies were little better. Oligopoly is the business version of an Oligarchy. I have, over the years, watched how this fundamental was overruled. I wonder if its still taught today
Its not taught today as far as I know, but to be honest its not the point. I sort of worked it out for myself when I understood that oligopolies are the most likely to be destroyed by rapid technological and cultural change. The best recent example of this is the oligopoly formed by german car manufacturers, the related oligarchy formed by the powers behind the scenes in the form of the quandt family (BMW) and the porsche/piech family that owns VW/audi/Seat/Skoda/RollsRoyce.. and take note of their reaction to the introduction of electric cars... and their sponsorship of anti - tesla protests. So the destruction of the oligopoly formed by german car manufacturers will lead to the weakening of the oligarchy that rules germany.
Some resources are extremely rare so you do sometimes get natural monopolies or oligopolies occurring in business. It's the unfair creation of monopolies and oligopolies that harm society when they actively harm their competitors.
@@savvageorge I dont agree with your comment about oligopolies forming naturally. Again lets take the german car market as an example. In 2021 the EU fined Mercedes, BMW and VW group for colluding to limit the rollout of pollution reduction technology. This was to the benefit of 2 of the top 10 oligarchs in Germany who are majority or controlling shareholders in 2 of the named companies.
@@daveingram8036 I agree car manufacturing should be a fairly open market. I was thinking more about rare natural resources as a potential source for natural oligarchies. Lets say your country has 5 locations with gold deposits underground. You're never gonna have more than 5 gold miners in your country due to the limited locations for gold extraction.
Aristotle didn’t describe an ancient system. He described human nature as it is. Allowing an educational system to drop out classical writings erases hard learned lessons from the consciousness of the culture. Each new generation states at ZERO if not instructed.
Interesting that no one has ever found any biological evidence for this "human nature as it is" that you claim, yet here I am being enlightened in the YT comments about it. It would be great if the evidence to support this claim were also provided.
He didn't because he believed in idealist variants that do not exist (or, in the best case, cannot last). Only the "degenerate" variants should be considered as realistic (hence democracy is the way to go).
Technofeudalism is what we are moving into. It's still an oligarchy but slightly different than previous established oligarchy. You can even see conflict within technofeudalism between the older oligarchs and the newer ones like the PayPal Mafia.
Ripe with the signs???! It's been a oligarchy for decades.. Globally.... the government bribery (lobbying) has ensured that. Well that and the fact the gullible still think voting for their next criminal slave master will change anything. Ever.... It won't. Stop looking for a saviour in government. They're a criminal Extortion racket. Nothing less
@@joyrico5989It’s made these final steps much more recently with the private corporate crossover with govt that has come with musk and trump and Ramiswami & Bergum etc 💔
@@melanieearly3450no it's been this was for decades, it's just getting more overt as the rich now have so much power they believe they're untouchable.
This 69 year old American thanks you so much for this refresher course. The state of the US government has been deplorable for decades. Thanks to the internet, independent news and social media, we are seeing the democratic facade crumble in the most blatant manner. I hope that I live long enough to witness the change that is at least on the horizon. Thank you again. Yes, I did subscribe.
Deplorable government for decades? Despite the change of presidents between 2 parties ? If you destroy democracy you will just get tyranny or oligarchy.
You haven't paid attention then. This has always been the way in the U.S. Be it in the 1790's, 1850's, 1950's, or any point up till now. It's actually just not as blatant now. The Rockefellers don't run in politics, the Kennedy's are pretty much done in politics. But here's the kicker if we were an oligarchy, trust busting wouldn't be a thing. Environmental protections and worker protections, not a thing. There is corruption, and a certain level of entrenched wealth, there always will be (Unless you get rid of money entirely and go Communist). If you really want to know who is the Oligarchy, look for those who espouse trickle down economics, small government, less regulation, and privatizing social security.
@@kirkdougherty8690 Nothing gas lightyear about the truth. The Kennedys were a wealthy before they got into politics. Remember when the Rockefellers has a senators and a couple of governors? The only real thing different about the US of today and the US of the 50's, is a lack of legally enforced segregation, and women don't need a male family member to open a bank account.
People don’t care and they don’t want to be called racist But I for one cannot wait for the iPhone 16 that is mind by children’s bare hands for cobalt and assembled together by slaves in China
There will always be billionaires, but we can try to stop the corruption with the government in bed with corporations. Blaming the rich because they are rich is just more identity politics. It gets us nowher.
@@tao8150 I'm not blaming the rich at all. I'm blaming the people who think that electing a man who has used government all his life to enrich himself, will suddenly not use his new position to somehow lessen the power of money in politics.
I love the concept that you present by stating, "imagine a scenario where...", knowing that what you are saying is currently going on in society as you drop this video. Very eye opening, a great look back into one of the greatest minds of human history with an engaging storytelling. Keep up the good work!
It’s one thing to see it but another to actually comprehend it. I’m afraid the average American doesn’t have the intellectual ability to understand what’s going on even if they came across this video.
Always was. Name me one president or candidate besides Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses grant who are not millionaires or billionaires...kennedy/bush/obama/biden/clinton/truman/Reagan everyone...😅 maybe u can exclude ron paul .
I always loved the argument called "Iron law of oligarchy." No matter what system you get, it will eventually end up in the hands of a few rich oligarchs.
If a society drop the idea to a hierarchy of power, so government, and everyone can freely defend himself, than thanks to competitions no one can hold infinite power and no one can enforce his position to the rest.
@@nonsolorasatura9093 Competition lets people to form groups to be stronger and win fights. So gangs form. Some gang grows dominant and as the winner calls itself goverment..
We missed out on near average of 90 billion dollars/year in resource royalties because of the free spinning lobbyist door in Parliament. Exceeding Norway and Qatar in gas exports last two years but our country getting less than 10 percent of what either of those countries did. EVERY state project, education, hospitals, THE LOT could of been paid for with money left over for tax breaks. At what point is such mismanagement treason?
One of the most insightful and damning commentaries on the state of governments across the world. Very well put together. The USA Ausralia the UK Europe all have different foms of Oligarchy. Russia China different forms of tyrany
West gave genocide, colonization, plague, Holocaust, mass starvation. East, mainly India, gave compassion, wisdom, Yoga, Buddhism, number system, Sanskrit, Kama Sutra, joy and happiness.
@@razraza3183 Where did the digital device you are using originate from? Also the qualities you mention can be present in both societies. Compassion & wisdom did not come exclusively from the East. Genocide, colonisation, plague, mass starvation have been practiced by Eastern civilisations in the past when it suits them.
@kiwitrainguy British industrialization was dependent on de-industrialization of India. British stole 45 Trillion dollars and starved millions to death in India. There was NO difference between Churchill and Hitler.
@@razraza3183 The East also gave us the mongol Empire who killed tens of millions of people. Joyful and happy indeed. A good number of them were buddhists too! What say you of that?
Excellent summary of Aristotle's analysis concerning political structures and their inherent risks. Have studied Aristotle for many years and find he and Socrates were very observant and able to clearly define / analyze / summarize what they saw.
Tired of people saying "What rich people do doesn't affect you" "Rich people aren't the reason you're poor" Yes, they quite literally are the reason, and they are purposefully affecting EVERYTHING to be worse for the rest of us.
@@SAR0311 I think they're very specifically focused on keeping people down, the way education has become unaffordable unless you already come from a wealthy family is straight from the playbook laid out here. They call the rest of us "useless eaters" they want to separate from us while living off of our labor just like it's always played out in history.
Wealth doesn't necessarily mean the desire to control. Look at 20th century history lots of people who came from working class backgrounds gain power that didn't benefit anyone but, their partners. They usually used that "down with the rich" cliche you are talking
We live in a feudal society. We are never educated to overthrow, just given the information needed to comply, unless you are a critical thinker and then you are in detention all the time. ❤
Thanks mate. I now get that what we describe here in Kenya as a democracy is basically oligarchy. Cant be appointed any high office unless you are corrupt, or related to a corrupt fellow. Most people in public office have resources not relative to their known sources of income.
*been* blinded to it all. Look at the history of education, and you see how school became a preparation ground to make the next generation a bit blinder each passing generation.
Aristotle was wrong. Wrong about Oligarchy being unstable. Today we don't have local Oligarchy but it is world wide. Global Oligarchy and its power increase exponentially every day because they have control of global finance, the most powerful military ever, the most sophisticated intelligence system. Biden was absolutely right about F-22 comment. In Aristotle's time it was as easy as asking for help from neighbouring power; today the average man is disenfranchised, unorganised and technically weaker than a local Policemen. Nobody will leave their comfort of scrolling media and welfare food and shelter for a revolution. Revolution is dead.
The new terminology for oligarchy is now corporatocracy. This term first came our from a person who was an economic hitman himself (John Perkins) he described in his book how this corporations divide countries between them and start war or strife in the target countries. There is another book called "all honorable men" I don't remember the author's name now, where he describes how some monopolic corporations were moving money, wealth, and resources during the world war 2 although it was considered high treason thet times. For example, the US standart oil was selling the gasoline to the germans, which needed it for their submarines to work. The same goes for IG Farben, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Rolls Royce, etc. After he found many relations and connections between bankers, Wall Street, and the Hitler regime, he made a report about it, but it was silenced and undermined. Then he wrote this book, which was banned and just became public in 1990's. The same goes with the US regime and their connection to the military industrial complex, which gets hundreds of billions worth contracts for a perpetuated war situation. Afghanistan and Iraq wars are one of the best examples with which how they instigate false flag operations and blame other people, and invade their country.
New term just trying to distract attention. To blame companies instead of people. Fine, once we do this step, it's just easier to see it for what it is: the capital runs business. Ceos and politicians call the shots, corporations and media carry out the story, but the capital 'instructs' It's the positive feedback loop more capital more power more capital etc Although looking at where the capital is, we find a lot in corporations, where it accumulates best due to worldwide 0% capital gain tax. I guess the corporatoctacy makes sense as a name, my problem however is it sort of further helps the owners hide Anyway, the US doesn't primarily fight wars to keep their military business running, albeit it's a nice side effect for them. The main reason is to maintain the petrodollar status, keep the global position by displaying readiness to fight
There's only one way to rule a society perfectly, or to mold a perfect society: every single citizen must be perfect, which is why utopia will never happen. The best we can achieve is to improve ourselves as we improve our systems of government, while still remaining fiercely loyal to individual freedoms within the context of a common good. Something like that, anyway.
One of the next best ways is to have a society that raises it's youth to be scholars *and* warriors, for the sake of being able to see and understand the workings of the world they live in, along with being able to make or force change if and when it becomes corrupted by a select few. *This is the exact reason the education system has devolved, making people dumber, and why people are given "bread and circus," distracting them from self improvement and covering their eyes with a false sense of security and peace.
I agree. The greatness of the American experiment was the principles it espoused, namely the sanctity of individual rights and a limited government that only exists to protect those rights. Whether the original form the US government took actually embodied those principles is debatable. The principles are good though. We have an opportunity to develop a system that gets closer to those values. With the cold power of technology to control individuals in subtle and overt ways we desperately need to get this accomplished post haste.
It's actually a slow form of brainwashing. Under education also contributes to this. If you don't use critical thinking skills you'll believe anything and everything you are told by people who are more powerful than you.
Voting, as we know it today, is just a ritual for people to renew their allegiance to those who daily pile up a shit load of stress on them and to reinforce the perceived legitimacy of the system and its army of bureaucrats.
Then you should think about it some more. Would you vote for someone who is involuntarily homeless? Why not? Chances are, if they are involuntarily homeless they most likely struggle managing resources to include wealth, time, social resources. Basically, having wealth usually means you are skilled at managing resources. You prove your merit by not being poor. How qualified does that make you to be a leader? It isn't the worst measure, but it shouldn't be your only measure. And elite, well that is just a classist divide designed to contain and divide the population. Its a lie told by people who feel special about themselves, the people who worship them, and the people who hate them for not being them. Don't believe the lie. Measure someone on their merits, not their status or purse.
"Basically having wealth usually means you are skilled at managing resources" ...you may want to stop and re-watch the video you are commenting on for a broader perspective on how wealth is usually amassed in these United States.
This short video explains it all. It should be required viewing for all public schools at the appropriate grade levels, but we know that will never happen.
It's never enough for them to just enjoy their wealth. They always seek to dominate others too.
Wealth = power.
From where I stand, these extremely wealthy men don’t see the rest of us, and play games of one upmanship among themselves. ‘I make more millions than you’, and so on…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
That is the true nature of evil… Satan and his minions delight in DESTRUCTION and CHAOS !
The rich don't get happiness from owning wealth, they get happiness from aquiring it. Like how it feels good to buy a new car. They get addicted to that feeling, and want to aquire more and more to keep the dompaine rush flowing.
"Imagine a hypothetical government."
Proceeds to describe the modern American governmental system.
Not just America and many other places are worse America's only playing catch up to them
Maybe it was used as a how to.
Not just America. So many parallels elsewhere too 😢
"crying in a corner wishing you would've had a say" 😒@@rolfnoduk
A polity is described as a middle ground between an aristocracy and a democracy. Somehow we have managed to find the bastard child of democracy and oligarchy without any of the virtues of a polity.
I was taught this in college. That was 50 years ago. Since it’s no longer taught, it’s apparent that the oligarchs have been working towards their goals over the years. Most likely so the populace wouldn’t notice. And here we are today.
yep, I had to learn this kinda stuff on my own.
Indeed. Most of us that saw it coming and tried to alert everybody were dismissed as fringe. And now here we are. There’s only one thing left to do …. ORGANIZE!!!
I too was taught this in college 50 years ago.
They have people focused on the fear of LGBTQ+ and immigrants instead. Social media is destroying real democracy by getting people focused on outrage rather than truth.
Not only that, they are so in your face with it.
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless" -Thomas Jefferson
@@JohnDaniels jews are the wealthiest people in America.
Wow and that's literally happening as we speak...
@BOSSDONMAN Exactly 👍🏻
This is a spurious quotation.
Yes I think this quote is spurious but...
This is part of a letter to John Tailor in 1816 "And I sincerely believe with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; & that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale"
What they say, "It's a threat to our democracy."
What they mean, "It's a threat to our oligarchy."
Bingo.
The trick is in the word "our"
You and I are NOT apart of THEIR "our". So what they speak is true. But its for us plebs to figure that part out, its not OUR democracy, its THEIRS and they spit that in our faces daily.
More specifically, the unelected administrative state serves the interests of the oligarchs while the citizens are generally asked to pick between one side that sells the general public on the idea of progress and the other side that sells the people on the idea of restoring normalcy.
The United States ia, and always has been, an oligarchy. However a few things have changed since Aristotle. First, the American poor are not getting tougher. They're getting fatter and dumber. They're also more gullible. The notion that an obvious grifter like Trump can deliver them from oligarchy would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. Second, in Aristotle's time there could be no such thing as a birth dearth. A new twist is that it's mainly the rich with many children. Third, American oligarch's are not letting their children degenerate. They usually have a tougher, more rigorous upbringing than the children of poor people. Finally, letting little people play with guns is a brilliants strategy. It allows powerless men to delude themselves they have power, to fantasize about "taking our country back" all of which stops them from really organising. The little people mainly shoot themselves or each other.
Lyndon Johnson put it best how easy it is to manipulate lower middle-class and poor white men:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you"
As long as we are taught to use dualism (Right or Left) to understand power, we will always be Divided and Conquered. The oligarchy's wet dream is to rule the masses with one world government. It's not unity, it is imprisonment. There is no integrity or trust in their idea of a perfect world.
The “Signs You Might Be Living in an Oligarchy “ section of this video is brilliant. More and more people need to understand what is pointed to here.
Came here to say this, but you said it better ;o)
What time, please?
@@wildmanofborneo10:50 for example (Boeing, etc)
Prime example is the u.s itself. Democracy juz an illusion
Yeah well, first we need them to realize that a lying, irredeemable, draft dodging, narcissistic, sociopath adulterer is not qualified to become president. The explanation in the video is spot on, but it would be advance level rocket science for the maga morons.
Perfect description of the US today. My sis explained it perfectly: we are all cheering for our perceived team. We cheer when “we” win. What we don’t comprehend: we aren’t even in the game. 😕
we are in the game when it comes to taxes and war. 🤔🤔🤔
@@lorainestjames4181 We are just financing the game: body parts and Benjamins.
George Carlin did a great job as well
The wealth convinced the middle and lower class to look sideways instead of up. It was never about powerless marginalized groups taking the little someone had. Or left or right politics. It was about the rich fleecing the poor.
ABSOLUTELY 💯
"Imagine a hypothetical society..." We don't have to imagine it, we're experiencing it right here right now.
right here right fn now chumps
My thoughts too x
Trump and muskrat we doomed
@@ryanlingo2372
Taking sides? You still don’t get it; do you. How pitiful…
@@EvgeneXI elon is literally the actual living embodiment of oligarchy, he is the extreme form too, not even hiding it
I am American. You described the United States perfectly.
Yep almost every western government, and some Asian/South American ones as well.
@@rustyshackleford7200 What culture isn't governed by its elites? When was it ever different?
So does Benito Mussolini.
@@doublecrossedswine112 Indigenous cultures value the old and spiritually reasonable, persumably similar to the caste system of India. While still elites, people can't take the power of the old nor the spirits because there isn't such a process.
All G7 countries for sure plus all countries such as the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, South Korea etc. Basically all that like calling themselves developed countries
'Imagine', 'picture a scenario', 'hypothetically' brilliantly used tongue-n- cheek.
'And now, just open your eyes, and look around you. If any of this somehow resonnates with your current sense of the world to whatever degree you can notice, then you might just be smack-dab in the middle of it! (the All-I-garchy, that is)'.
Oh we’re smack dab in the middle for sure 😳
This should be mandatory viewing for every person in America right now...
Mandatory reading for every person that loves freedom for all people without favour for a few..
McAmerica is spreading its oligarchy throughout the world.
Sounds like the MAGA CULT
Along with critical analysis skills
@ critical thinking too!
Bernie Sander have been saying this since 2016 but people didnt listen properly because Americans didnt understand the defintion of oligarchy.
I did and voted for Bernie in the primary of 2016 but young people did not bother to show up so he could win the nomination. So here we are.
He's actually been saying this since the early nineties...
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" - George Carlin 😂
If they have a Diddy in it, who'd want to be.
Bless his memory. A contemporary Aristotle.
@@Sparky-xk4voDiddy ain't in it either. If he were he never would've been indicted.
Even in "the club" there are levels of hierarchy...just like an HOA, yacht or golf club...
@@randomcharacter6501 From time to time they hold a ritual and kill one of their own.
When Tyranny is Law, Revolution is Order - Don Pedro Albizu Campos
Thank you :~)
It’s time!
@@raynemarie8058 Im glad that someone agrees. Its like the movie Red Dawn from 1984 and 2012. This is what we need.
The factors are in place for a revolution of The People.
Yes!
If only we had been taught such stuff in school, now we have the opportunity to bring the old gems back into awareness.
"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them"
Had you tried studying this in school they'd have done to you what they did to Socrates.
School isn’t made to educate.
I went through this during my education of the public school system. In the fourth grade I was starting to learn about the western days. fifth grade Greek mythology which now introduces all of the men and a lot of Gods. Remember people here were into bestialities', Minotaur, sheeple, and Horseman. Then came the English rule of knights and witches. To bring us here in rainbow village. Where we start it all again for the littles ones to start living like beasts.
Schools are a part of the grift.
"Hypothetical situation" and "Imagine a society" when you are describing the real world. I love it
Parallels to my society you ask? Buddy, you just described our society on earth in 2024, a big corporate oligarchy, and that must stop.
This channel is a product of AI. zerogpt identifies it as 97% AI.
A 14-minute review of a big book is not a full description and does not warrant a sweeping conclusion and undescribed plan of action. This is age of corporate wealth evolved from the Industrial Revolution. The "big corporate oligarchy" is not a monolith. It is made up of individuals who have differing opinions and actions. For example, Musk is obviously supporting Trump, a business man who knows how to build a system and produce product followed by increase in revenue. Anther is Zuckerberg who bowed to perceived authority and then reversed and announced his participation, perhaps out of moral dissonance. Who knows about Amazon's leader who seems more interested in building muscle and dating women who go out in public half naked. Other examples abound. The point is that Aristotle is describing a system of building to possible corruption based on observations, much like an anthropologist today. In Ancient Athens Greece, the checkpoints and balance systems did not, or rarely, existed. We do have system of checks and balances the Founding Fathers build into the Constitution based on centuries of examples and their reasoned study of governmental systems. Systems are not perfect and will go out of balance, but a check system can bring things back into steady pattern. Human nature influencing a system results in it going off center and then the same human nature can reverse and equalize a system; physics of movement can explain this process, too. We must observe, too, that this video is written not as the last word on Aristotle, but as a shaded editorial piece using Aristotle to make social commentary on today's situation, which is the situation of societies throughout history. What they did not have is the Constitution. I would suggest a deep read of Aristotle and Plato as well as a deep read into history before jumping to an observation and proposing an action. Action proposals without clear plans tested by feasibility studies is just as bad as an oligarchy rising to power. Micro oligarchies are popping up all of the time; sometimes bubbles collect to form a super bubble, but these burst because they exceed their capacity to expand. Thought is like this, too; a reaction is not helpful. Education on a subject can create a broader view and insight than relying on a shaded opinion of a video, regardless of its source.
@@katherineozbirn6622you mention checks and balances in the system of the USA. And I agree those checks and balances should brings things to equilibrium. But I would also counter with at this point in our history those checks have begin to become corrupted. Yes bubbles come and go. But each cycle makes bigger and bigger swings back and forth. We the humble regular people, the poor and middle class, worry more about getting caught in the crossfire before it finds the middle again. The bigger the bubble the more collateral damage it causes.
@@katherineozbirn6622 USA rules the world and they're not fair. Someone is in La la la land. Trump and Musk are just part of the ecosystem. The inability to see World Bank, IMF with a clear view is baffling.
Aristote studied the Greeks who actually ruled the world. USA are the Democracy police for a reason.
Is it a coincidence that most of the rich people are in the USA? I hope people see the state of virtue among the American go getters who would step on their neighbour for a few dollars and fame.
@@katherineozbirn6622USA are ruling the world. When you think about power.... Think about the world in relation to USA.
Aristotle looked at Greece because they ruled the world. I know Americans think their way is THE WAY until it isn't.
I find it interesting how many modern politicians praise democracy with their speeches but with their actions they clearly endorse oligarchy. Maybe they view democracy as an unthreatening alternative which can be easily controlled? I've never heard any politician discuss the benefits of monarchy or aristocracy.
When people point at Scandinavia as good societies, they never talk about the fact we have not only democracy but also monarcy.
@savvageorge
As with any narcissist, actions speak louder than words. Their words are tools that hide their actions.
They choose democracy because it is an intrinsically inclusive system, a citizen of a democracy has political franchise and is therefore not a subject of a government and when the people are (or at least believe they are) the political authority they don't revolt.
All politicians all lie all the time.
@@ellengran6814Kings and Queens are just tourist attraction in Europe. They don't make laws and policies.
I am Nigerian. You described Nigeria perfectly.
I am Canadian. I have periodically received some e-mails & phone calls from some of your country's nobility. They were often asking me for money. I must be special.
We can see all this happening in Britain as well - following along like little lap dogs behind the coat tails of the the USA
Nigeria is a very characteristic case of an oligarchy controlling oil resources. Arab oil countries are tyrannies or oligarchies as well since the oil welth geta crazily condensed to them and the people dont appear to have very much benefit from the huge amount of oil.
Exactly
@innosanto
Exactly true talk
This video is more relevant than ever before.
They don’t call them the Classics for nothing. Excellent presentation, thank you for sharing.
They are the Classics and we are not getting taught the classic stuff perhaps by design.
@@innosanto people don't much care for pedos these days, Trump fans aside
Erich Fromm warned in "To Have or To Be" that when a person identifies themselves with what they own then they live in constant fear of losing what they own and thus losing who they are.
'To Have or To Be'. That sounds like the kind of stark, binary choice that someone who writes a book and gives it that title will never have to make.
thanks. Good spark. I’m at this crossroad. This constant pursuit for money and security is stooping me from letting go and being what i want to be and doing what i want to do.
@@Demiabahku Watch Steve Jobs speech when he was about to die. That will help you let go.
Wow I don't see/hear a quote from the great Erich Fromm very often. Good memories.
@@nitaweitzel822 A giant mind.
That moment when you realize how succinctly your government was described. The US has officially become an oligarchy
The world is an oligarchy, the US is just a pawn!
"Of course I know him, he's me!"
If only it was just the US going down this road.
The US has been an oligarchy since the Civil War, a war not about slavery but about power and control. The oligarchs are careful to call the US a "democracy," that degenerate form of government. They read Aristotle. So, now you know the rest of the story.
It’s been like this for a while, workers rise up
It's good to see that more and more people are waking up to what an oligarchy is and how it applies to our own country. And I'm not just talking about the United States.
Currently in America, neither citizens nor politicians drive policy.
Being an old dude in his sixties, I've seen our once representational republic slowly become our present day Oligarchy.
This is great video. It explains so much so clearly and concisely. Thank you!
True, and ignorance is the oligarcs greatest ally. If there was less of it, people might have seen that Bernie Sanders was their way out of that mess.
It's funny how you claim to have seen it change. When the Oligarchy was in place at the turn of the last century and got their way with the creation of the Fed. Read prof. Carroll Quigley, he was bill clinton's mentor.
@@geronimo4511 yes until the oligarchs convinced Sanders to bow down and obey. God bless the fearless!!!! I myself am working on that.
@@geronimo4511 it certainly explains the dumbing down of the USA. The education system keeps getting worse, the culture keeps lurching into ever greater stupidity.
Amazing how Aristotle nailed our modern world so accurately!
Not just him, but also Plato and Socrates were wary of Democracy and try to warn us but we humans fail to heed their warnings.
Not modern world, simply human nature. Or show me a human, _humane_ society...We are just one step Baboons, who kill each other, while we hire others...
@@madworldisrael7584 Not quite. The founding fathers clearly made efforts to create checks and balances to prevent this from happening. But they're just men like the rest of us--they're not perfect. Admirable attempt.
@@svendays the system was quite good, but when all is said and done it got infected with too much democracy. It was all too easy after that to manipulate the masses with promises of freebies and seize control. Once the electoral college falls, the supreme court will fall and that will be the end of the great experiment.
That is why Aristotle is one of the most studied philosophers. Aristotle helped form the basis for Western thought that includes logical thinking, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the workings of politics and power.
Wealth is like salt water. The more you drink, the thirstier you become.
Excellent illustration...
Handsomely stated.
What is even worse is when the parasite class have so much money that they do not know what to do with it they turn to hunger for power and ABSLOLUTE detail control over all peoples lives...
The problem isn't necessarily wealth but its distribution. Anarchists had the right of it; inheritance is perhaps the greatest unequaliser of all.
He who loves silver is never satisfied with silver.
Thank you for describing exactly what is happening in the United States today.
We learned this in middle and high school. Tried to share this with people during this election. However, people find any way to refute it. He's so right to love his poorly educated. They served his purpose.
Never did we discuss this back in those days for me but we sure did in college and university.
I dont think education matters. Knowledge is useless unless it's applied. You can educate them all you want but without the ability to think independently and lean to the side of reason, no amount of education matters
The uneducated continue to serve the purpose of all of them. And all of them serve the oligarchy. It doesn't matter which party. It doesn't matter if you're left or right or red or blue. Both parties are the wings that are controlled by the single head.
Both candidates were oligarchs
@@Some_Average_Joe But only one has already attempted a violent coup.
Some people compare him to H***er, especially when you consider that the N*** party also had an unsuccessful coup before they got to power in 1933. Imo, this isn't a really accurate comparison though. If you have read anything Mussolini has published, you'll immediately see the parallels.
The president : A billionaire. Paid by billionaires. Surrounded by millionairs.
United States of Oligarchy.
If I may....
The white(animal)house....
The shoe fits....
Trump is not just an oligarch.
He is planning on being a tyrant and using the military and marshall law, and support from other dictators to enforce his will.
Whether he gets his way depends on strength and cunning of the resistance.
Your country's DOOMED
Indeed 🧐 uneducated peasants allowed this to happen
I didnt finish school but I persued higher education on my own
Im glad im old because I wont have to live very long in this shameful state of the united states of America 😢
@@bella0167 Yes, it is. my heart broke on election night. I thought I lived in a better country then I do.
One hopeful development I've seen on a local level - our city announced a road expansion, with the destruction of numerous houses and local, small businesses in the newspaper as a fiat. One council member was quoted as saying, "If they won't sell their houses, we'll just take them by eminent domain." Cue local, effective rebellion. Meetings, petitions, protests at the next City Planning meeting, recall petitions and within 2 weeks of the announcement, the plan was cancelled. Groups that formed to oppose this action continue to monitor the situation and update the public to ensure that this isn't reintroduced once the publicity dies down. If we can extend effective action like this to larger cities, states and nationwide, we can protect the interests of the people over the greed of the few.
That's not the slam dunk you think it is. It depends on whether the road would benefit more people than it harmed. If it did, then those opposing it formed a small minority blocking something that's good for the majority. Nimbyism is rarely a good thing. It may not be oligarchy (although it usually is the same people that get their way, and then it kinda is an oligarchy), but it is closer to anarchy than to democracy.
Local action is always more effective but they train the populace to focus nationally where we have very little to no influence.
@@lacdirk It was not NIMBY. The reasoning behind the need for the road and the placement of the road were not clearly beneficial to the community. There is a reason that nothing was presented to the public until it was presented as a done deal - as soon as the details were public neither the location nor the reasoning stood up to scrutiny. Other projects, like the building of a permanent farmer's market at a local park, were supported by the community and have been huge successes.
Transparency is vital for a functional democracy. Trust us we know best is not a model citizens should follow.
@@KathieMihindukulasuriya I agree with the sentiment, but can obviously not judge on the situation itself.
In general, though, local activism has a very bad record in countries like the UK, in making national, regional or even just metropolitan projects expensive and slow. HS2 didn't fail because it was a difficult engineering project, nor did it fail because it wouldn't be transformative for the country.
I guess it depends on what you consider your community. If you think your community is just your family, your neighbourhood or your town, local activism can seem like a way to deliver democratically for the community. But if you widen your idea of community, it's an undemocratic way to thwart projects that would benefit that wider community.
@@lacdirk In this case, there wasn't really an impact on the wider community, state or country. It was a local road that wouldn't impact traffic in nearby towns or cities.
Thank you for your lesson in Oligarchy. I always assumed America isn't a democracy, but rather an oligarchy. Haven't heard a more fitting description about the political makeup of America and it's oligarchy system ever. Truly appreciate it!
You are correct. I always believed that we live in a plutocracy, not a democracy.
It's amazing how observant and wise Aristotle was. It's no wonder that his wisdom still resonates throughout the Centuries.
Aristotle was a good speaker. He says a lot of incorrect things. But he speaks in such a polished way that most people won't notice it.
@@rumplstiltztinkerstein And your claim to fame? Aristotle had a lot more wisdom that you, me or anyone else in Government seems to have.
@@rumplstiltztinkersteinWhat was based and what was known at the times hold true. You forgot that little tidbit, "Captain Obvious." And yet, Aristotle's observations on the very nature of both Governmental Politics and how it effects individuals who get into Government still holds true. Lord Acton best said it best: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Now, I guess that you're going to start correcting Lord Acton?????
@@southtexasprepper1837 Aristotle also said that the people in power shouldn't work because, according to him, working is bad for the mind. Aristotle said that the universe spin around earth. He also said that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects.
If Aristotle only made incorrect statements, nobody would care. But the fact that he makes a combination of good and bad statements in such a polished manner is why we should be careful about just memorizing everything he says.
He doesn't test his statements. He just says what he feels according to his biases. And a lot of his biases are similar to ours. In other words, he says what we want to hear.
@rumplstiltztinkerstein I will repeat: What's your claim to fame????? If you're going to be such a critic of Aristotle, then post your own Video on UA-cam of Your Criticisms and have people start critiquing You. As they say: "The Gauntlet is on the floor. Let's see if You've got the courage to pick it up."
My only quibble is with the "maybe these ideas are relevant today." They're overwhelmingly relevant. Great and insightful exposition. Thank you.
As long as our species exist, "these ideas", politics, will be relevant.
I feel like he might be making a pointed understatement.
Elon and Don are the epitome of this. Republican's have been selling out the government to the highest bidder for decades.
trying not to get banned by the powers that be.
Funny that. He's talking about government... And yet no-one will see that GOVERNMENT ARE THE PROBLEM. nothing but a criminal Extortion racket
We gotta get money out of politics. Dark money needs a light shown on it
@@missshroom5512 My mom, who grew up in fascist Germany during the 1930's and came to this country in 1952 wisely said that unless the U.S. instituted campaign finance reform, the government would eventually be controlled by the corrupt, elite super-rich.
Give each candidate 20 to 30 minutes a day to stand and answer questions of what he/she believes and intends to do. No more no less. No PACs, no other special interest group, no outside money advertising. Most political ads, across the board are BS, outright lies and pointed tear down.
I fear we are too late to make this happen
The only way to do that is to get power away from politicians.
If everything is political, then we must ban money
“signs you might be living in an oligarchy”
*describes america* 😮
I’m from Pakistan and it describes my country pretty well. It’s a Punjabi military feudal corporate oligarchy.
I'm from Canada, brother. it's just as corrupt here. They are good at keeping us blind and separated by race, religion, and perceived "class"
It describes almost every county ;)
Pakistan is a tyranny controlled by the military, it's the gun which holds the political power, rich people like Malik Riaz often fall victim if the military turns against them.
What Nawaz Sharif and Zardari wants to create is an Oligarchy
The Israelites asked God for a king in the Old Testament times instead of trusting God to rule over them so they could be like all of the other nations. Humans are sinners by nature so once this door was opened, we now have what we have today as far as governments and leaders. Government is a magnet for the incompetent and corrupt. As far as oligarchies, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Same sheet everwhere.
This is actually really the most pleasant of surprises: I started watching almost through gritted teeth in anticipation of seeing Aristotle's great thought and forensic social, economic, and political analysis dumbed down to a level which misrepresented it. Instead, not only has what I have seen been faithful to what I read in the book but this video is actually VERY HARD-HITTING in a quiet, understated way. This is UA-cam (doubtlessly unintentionally) at its best. Enjoy until it 'disappears'. In any case, GREAT WORK! You just gained another subscriber.
I'm of similar mind.... the raw math is 50% of us are above and 50% below average 'IQ', this presentation is accessable to a broard group... I can tell.
Youtoob dissapears comments constantly. They support trump because they are billionaires.
Great work? I think everything in this video, even the writing, is AI generated.
the fact that we now find Classical studies / philosophy as modern, just & revolutionary, truly says it all.
Everything rotates.
It should never have left the curriculum. A country full of enlightened people is healthier.
This is an absolutely brilliant factual documentary, well researched, presented and narrated, without any nonsense.
Studying true history is seeing the future.
Nothing new under the sun.
The reason why ancient era Greek philosophers' words are timeless is because they studied human nature, by observation, intellectually-honest consideration and after much debate with open mindedness. Times change, human nature doesn't. However worse you think mankind is today (and I'd agree it is), it would be the same back then if these systems matured earlier.
Once you get some grip of how humans behave and organize, and on top of that you start seeing all the historical eras and historical figures as true and natural human beings (instead of caricatures or "movie characters", as the modern media makes us see them today), everything starts making much more sense.
Yes I agree but these days we have smartphones and proof of war crimes so I believe nothing has changed ile never watch main stream media again =
You might be interested to read 'Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think' by Hans Rosling et. al.
Firstly, humans like any species change until they are no longer themselves, so obviously "human nature" changes.
Secondly, human behaviour is primarily determined by social systems and these depend on things like available resources and technologies. None of Politics explains the first 90% of human existence which is almost entirely egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands.
Things changed when natural climate change and population growth created a pressure away from foraging to the less nutritious but more space-efficient agriculture whose invention was obviously a necessary precondition.
Industry massively increased our productivity and the internet is massively increasing our capacity for deliberation on larger scales.
@@AcidCommunistAachen >humans like any species change
There is no evidence for change.
>human behaviour is primarily determined by social systems
You rationalize your evasion of your immedately experienced power to focus or evade focusing. Nothing but you can cause your mind to focus or evade. Focus is the power that allows your mind to function. Unfocused reasoning is impossible.
I so much agree! Oligarchy has been the predominant control mechanism throughout recorded history. That doesn't make it a good thing, just a fact of our existence that we ourselves are charged with changing, if we have the will!😊
Some things never change.
Human nature is one of them.
The good news is Americans have wepon's an gwot training so a chance at freeing ourselves if only people would accept the nature of our government.
Now its camouflaged as companies that influence lawmakers in Brussels and Washington
@@Trump2024asw what??? Historians will look back at GWOT as a spectacular display of imperial hubris (which is a great book btw). I see your name… Trump completely changed the culture inside of the Republican Party and made it ok to for conservatives to admit that GWOT was a mistake and completely spoke out against using our military for regime change and nation building.
This channel is a product of AI. zerogpt identifies it as 97% AI.
One key difference between modern oligarchies and historical ones is that we now have a multinational one where oligarchs from different countries are vying for further control around the world.
The conflict between the US, China and Russia, is not a conflict between different states but a conflict between the oligarchs of each respective society.
Brexit, was ultimately a conflict between two different parts of the UK's oligarchy. Some wanting to maintain their relations with EU's oligarchs and others wanting to diverge from them.
Inequality must end.
Many thanks for the writings of Aristotle, no wonder the classics is never taught in Australian schools. I’ve spent the last four years researching to come to the same conclusion that you have covered here in 15minutes.
I’ll be studying the classics with what time is left to me. Thank you once again.
All this happens while the public sit back call their government incompetent.
All unaware, these politicians ain't being incompetent. They're doing exactly what they meant to.
Not exactly. Your description applies to some. But many of them do what they CAN do. If they will oppose rich, media will destroy them and they won't be in office anymore. So they try to find some balance... anyway the fact that the state is weak against oligarchs and if the state can't control them, no one can and they rule our world.
Aristocrats or Oligarchs, May the best among us succeed.. No Rome shall burn down again, even if the Tyrants hold sway.. Somehow no Rome shall burn down like it once did centuries ago. The cage is too fortified thanks to modern education and the lack of land owners producing their own food.
To me this is the most confusing thing. Literally every choice they make enriches themselves. They never stop to ask the common man. With the technology today, we could literally have a policy voting app. The only job of these bureaucrats would be enact the voted policies.
And yet we still go in with pen and paper and told our votes are counted towards our chosen candidate. They do whatever they want, and people still think they have a say. The only time we get what we want is when it aligns with their desires or to placate us.
@@TravisHi_YT why did you use the word "confusing".
If democracy worked, they wouldn't let us have it.
@user-mx9pt4dr7y you watch too much corporate sponsored media.
The "benevolent, independent main stream media" business model died with Bill Clinton.
If you never ask questions, you never find out.
You just described the USA today.
This is bigger than just the USA.
This is Planet wide.
Our governments are under the control and sway of the trillionaires.
The "great reset" continues with the development of the brics alliance.
The worlds economy, all of it in every form, is about to be reset into a new model where 99% of human kind will own nothing and never be allowed to.
People are mostly sheep and will always follow the herdsmen into the abatoir.
He described most first world countries. Most hide their actions around virtue but it's just an excuse to gain control and shift their own people into power
The Western World
The world at large...
The oligarchs of the 1800's gave us Teddy Roosevelt. We survived. The middle 2oth century, Reagan arrived -- who ruled better after his time in the wilderness after his failed 1st attempt for the presidential nomination. This century, we have Trump -- who, like Reagan before, has spent his time in the wilderness. Let us pray he helps shove the pendulum.
We are fortunate we have term limits for president. Now for congressional term limits -- which we would already have had except Newt Gingrich never wanted term limits when he ran on his contract with America.
Princeton and other colleges have done studies proving the US is a plutocracy. To say we need to get money out of politics is an enormous understatement
People don't want to see this fact, but we do live in a plutocracy. They'd rather bury their heads in the sand.
9:20 Consider a "hypothetical" society where the government consistently bails out large corporations which hits the general population with inflation, higher tax...
You funny Legendary Lore🤣
G-SIBs: Global Systemically Important Banks, aka 'too big to fail'.
'Too big' for who? 'Fail' as opposed to what?
At least it is not hypothetical, but part of a cycle.
Same here in México and if we keep digging, the whole world, all societies are dominated and control by an oligarchy. Even in communist societies like Russia and China. Name one country where this in not the case, please. Is in our DNA. Great vid, Thanks! Greetings from CDMX.
2008 U.S.A.!
Aristotle's idea of democracy was majority rule without safeguards for the political minority. That is why Thomas Jefferson, in reaction to the excesses of the French Revolution, told James Madison that the constitution needed to be amended with a Bill of Rights.
Now it’s tyranny of the minority - not just oligarchy but also woke.
The Bill of Rights was added on because colonies noticed that it was missing and would not sign on to it until those individual protections were addressed.
The arguments for the Bill of Rights are far older and were ultimately required by the states.
Remember the Federalist Papers were originally intended for and widely read in NY state, as was written by Jay and Hamilton both of whom were always in favor of centralized power. Go read the "Anti-Federalist Papers", Letters from a Federal Farmer and Brutus are good places to start when it comes to the arguments there in, Cato and Sentinel as well.
Didn't America start with "Articles of Confederation" in the 1783 era... then was found not to have enough centralized authority... which then lead to the "Constitution" meetings. Isn't that the way it evolved?
@@BwanaFinklestein Yes, the Articles of Confederation preceded the U.S. Constitution.
I read The Politics many years ago, and it's a work that has stuck with me. In many ways both Aristotle's _Ethics_ and his _Politics_ (and to a lesser extent the _Poetics)_ remain relevant to all times.
I love how your calm, dispassionate delivery puts me in mind of a Doctor describing the advancing stages of a disease. Rather apt, really.
Because the voice is an AI. Even UA-cam itself recognized it
@@erc3338 Really? That's unnerving to say the least. :/
@@Giantwaspface Yeah look in the description
@@erc3338 Well... Don't I feel a bit silly. I'll have to look out for that in future. The AI is taking over, it's the end times etc etc.
@Giantwaspface Yeah I see images and think "ok they just weren't diligent when sourcing stock images," then as I listen I think "...Is this *whole thing* AI?" So I check, and lo and behold, YT flagged it
Studying Economics in the 70s, a fundamental we learnt, monopolies were bad and oligopolies were little better. Oligopoly is the business version of an Oligarchy. I have, over the years, watched how this fundamental was overruled. I wonder if its still taught today
"Economics" is now mere "relativism".
Its not taught today as far as I know, but to be honest its not the point. I sort of worked it out for myself when I understood that oligopolies are the most likely to be destroyed by rapid technological and cultural change. The best recent example of this is the oligopoly formed by german car manufacturers, the related oligarchy formed by the powers behind the scenes in the form of the quandt family (BMW) and the porsche/piech family that owns VW/audi/Seat/Skoda/RollsRoyce.. and take note of their reaction to the introduction of electric cars... and their sponsorship of anti - tesla protests. So the destruction of the oligopoly formed by german car manufacturers will lead to the weakening of the oligarchy that rules germany.
Some resources are extremely rare so you do sometimes get natural monopolies or oligopolies occurring in business. It's the unfair creation of monopolies and oligopolies that harm society when they actively harm their competitors.
@@savvageorge I dont agree with your comment about oligopolies forming naturally. Again lets take the german car market as an example. In 2021 the EU fined Mercedes, BMW and VW group for colluding to limit the rollout of pollution reduction technology. This was to the benefit of 2 of the top 10 oligarchs in Germany who are majority or controlling shareholders in 2 of the named companies.
@@daveingram8036 I agree car manufacturing should be a fairly open market. I was thinking more about rare natural resources as a potential source for natural oligarchies. Lets say your country has 5 locations with gold deposits underground. You're never gonna have more than 5 gold miners in your country due to the limited locations for gold extraction.
What a great satirical piece, told as if we were not already within an oligarchy.
Since 1913
Imagine that!
Satirical? Think again.
Aristotle didn’t describe an ancient system.
He described human nature as it is.
Allowing an educational system to drop out classical writings erases hard learned lessons from the consciousness of the culture.
Each new generation states at ZERO if not instructed.
Interesting that no one has ever found any biological evidence for this "human nature as it is" that you claim, yet here I am being enlightened in the YT comments about it. It would be great if the evidence to support this claim were also provided.
Totally agree.
Please provide biological evidence for this "human nature as it is".
He didn't because he believed in idealist variants that do not exist (or, in the best case, cannot last). Only the "degenerate" variants should be considered as realistic (hence democracy is the way to go).
This channel is a product of AI. zerogpt identifies it as 97% AI.
The knowledge that you provide us with is pure gold the knowledge of ancient Greeks could be the solution for many of our modern but systemic problems
Whether we have been moving into an oligarchy or something else, we are moving into something very nasty. And have been for a long time now.
Technofeudalism is what we are moving into. It's still an oligarchy but slightly different than previous established oligarchy. You can even see conflict within technofeudalism between the older oligarchs and the newer ones like the PayPal Mafia.
Yes. EXACT:LY.
We're steps away from oligarchy. Those behind it want to move into full tyranny though.
That pesky idea of a New World Order keeps coming back. Hopefully they let us have more than 500M people before they are done.
Especially if you look at what is happening in England. It’s like their PM took 1984 and decided it was a playbook.
Good lesson on Oligarchy. Our current society is ripe with the signs of Oligarchy and Tyranny.
Ripe with the signs???! It's been a oligarchy for decades.. Globally.... the government bribery (lobbying) has ensured that. Well that and the fact the gullible still think voting for their next criminal slave master will change anything. Ever.... It won't. Stop looking for a saviour in government. They're a criminal Extortion racket. Nothing less
It’s been this way for quite awhile now
@@joyrico5989It’s made these final steps much more recently with the private corporate crossover with govt that has come with musk and trump and Ramiswami & Bergum etc 💔
@@melanieearly3450no it's been this was for decades, it's just getting more overt as the rich now have so much power they believe they're untouchable.
@@joyrico598910x worse now with tyrants like trump and musk at the helm
This 69 year old American thanks you so much for this refresher course. The state of the US government has been deplorable for decades. Thanks to the internet, independent news and social media, we are seeing the democratic facade crumble in the most blatant manner. I hope that I live long enough to witness the change that is at least on the horizon.
Thank you again. Yes, I did subscribe.
Hopefully soon i dont think the ipad generation or younger generation that will be raised on Ai will be capable 🤦
Deplorable government for decades? Despite the change of presidents between 2 parties ? If you destroy democracy you will just get tyranny or oligarchy.
You haven't paid attention then. This has always been the way in the U.S. Be it in the 1790's, 1850's, 1950's, or any point up till now. It's actually just not as blatant now. The Rockefellers don't run in politics, the Kennedy's are pretty much done in politics.
But here's the kicker if we were an oligarchy, trust busting wouldn't be a thing. Environmental protections and worker protections, not a thing.
There is corruption, and a certain level of entrenched wealth, there always will be (Unless you get rid of money entirely and go Communist). If you really want to know who is the Oligarchy, look for those who espouse trickle down economics, small government, less regulation, and privatizing social security.
@@unciuncia420Your attempts to gaslight this old guy is amusing in the extreme. 😂
@@kirkdougherty8690
Nothing gas lightyear about the truth. The Kennedys were a wealthy before they got into politics. Remember when the Rockefellers has a senators and a couple of governors?
The only real thing different about the US of today and the US of the 50's, is a lack of legally enforced segregation, and women don't need a male family member to open a bank account.
Such Knowledge is About TIMING.
The Time is Now when The People are READY.
Many more need To Listen to This.
When I read the book Politics in the 80s, I thought, this was going on in Aristotle's time, as the Lord said, there is nothing new under the sun.
This description of an oligarchy fits Sweden perfectly.
What always surprises me is how few people see it, or are willing to look honestly at it.
People don’t care and they don’t want to be called racist
But I for one cannot wait for the iPhone 16 that is mind by children’s bare hands for cobalt and assembled together by slaves in China
Oligarchy describes the USA.
@@tcpUtube1 I agree. There are several countries that fit the bill
It seems understanding our political system is like a fish trying to understand water.
@@BasedGaunchoor maybe just maybe your political system isn’t doing well
Aristole was a clever lad.
He was a clever dude.
😅
Aristole was a virtuous lad.
Except when it comes to Physics
@@TREE3-ph4srconsider the time he was writing in
What an unbelievably necessary and helpful video. Thank you for this channel.
Anyone who thinks electing a billionaire is going to stop the USA from being an oligarchy is a fool.
Yup, people that voted for tRump are window licking morons. This goes double if you are black, brown, a woman, or poor/working class.
Don't know if it shows desperation or stupidity. Maybe both. Whatever the case, it's very disappointing that 100 million people don't understand.
There will always be billionaires, but we can try to stop the corruption with the government in bed with corporations. Blaming the rich because they are rich is just more identity politics. It gets us nowher.
@@tao8150 I'm not blaming the rich at all. I'm blaming the people who think that electing a man who has used government all his life to enrich himself, will suddenly not use his new position to somehow lessen the power of money in politics.
@@searchingstuff you may be right, but it's not like voting for predetermined candidates every 4 years amounts to any real change
I read Aristotle's Politics in 1978 when I first went to college. It turned out it was all I really needed to know.
I love the concept that you present by stating, "imagine a scenario where...", knowing that what you are saying is currently going on in society as you drop this video. Very eye opening, a great look back into one of the greatest minds of human history with an engaging storytelling. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the lesson. We were never taught this is School but it’s interesting to see what’s happening today.
A brilliant video which is desperately needed in our time. I pray millions will watch this and awake to the reality of our American oligarchy.
It’s one thing to see it but another to actually comprehend it. I’m afraid the average American doesn’t have the intellectual ability to understand what’s going on even if they came across this video.
Great information. I now see we too here in America are rulered by an Oligarchy. Well presented. Aristotle is worth listening too for everyone
Always was. Name me one president or candidate besides Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses grant who are not millionaires or billionaires...kennedy/bush/obama/biden/clinton/truman/Reagan everyone...😅 maybe u can exclude ron paul .
I love how you keep saying "hypothetical society" before describing something happening in a prominent western country right now. Good stuff
Aristotle was way ahead of time. His knowledge is useful even to this day
I'm surprised and glad to see so much interest in Aristotle, the politics of oligarchy, and this channel.
I always loved the argument called "Iron law of oligarchy." No matter what system you get, it will eventually end up in the hands of a few rich oligarchs.
@@skylinefever where is this law written?
@@skylinefever or I should say “where does that argument originate from?”
@@PEACE2U-ALLhumanity
If a society drop the idea to a hierarchy of power, so government, and everyone can freely defend himself, than thanks to competitions no one can hold infinite power and no one can enforce his position to the rest.
@@nonsolorasatura9093 Competition lets people to form groups to be stronger and win fights. So gangs form. Some gang grows dominant and as the winner calls itself goverment..
One of the most useful videos I've seen for a long time... Brilliantly written.
Equally as brilliant is that it was designed to APPEAR to have been scripted by AI.
It's amazing what ancient people knew. Maybe we should stop throwing out ancient philosophies, assuming that they are obsolete?
Human nature is never obsolete. Not as long as one of us draws breath.
Sums up Canada and US very nicely.
And Australia and Britain.
Australia is definitely an Oligarchy. It is very clear that the common good is not of interest to our leaders.
I was gonna say the same thing
We missed out on near average of 90 billion dollars/year in resource royalties because of the free spinning lobbyist door in Parliament. Exceeding Norway and Qatar in gas exports last two years but our country getting less than 10 percent of what either of those countries did. EVERY state project, education, hospitals, THE LOT could of been paid for with money left over for tax breaks. At what point is such mismanagement treason?
In every society there has been a ruling class. Once based on control of land then wealth of commerce now control of a financial system..
All west are, and China is getting there, wish them luck😂
Canada as well, but not quite as bad as Australia lol
very crisp and informative. A tough, complex analysis can't be more simple!
One of the most meaningful things I've listened to in a while.
Thank you for this.
I’ve been diagnosed as very low on the oligarchy spectrum.
Join the club. 😁
Same…. But extremely high on the libertarian spectrum ; )
Same. There's always fascism...
@@chamuuemura5314 I love your sense of humor!
I didn’t learn the word “oligarchy” until after college
I WONDER WHY
Facts and information only belong to certain people.
Maybe you weren’t paying attention? Oligarchy was taught to us in the 7th grade. I also learned about it in depth in college.
@@ryanmarlin2974 yeah but maybe he got a real degree.
Bad parenting?
@@mimilong3817 This information, however, is freely available and was written 2000 years ago
He just described every industrialised country
One of the most insightful and damning commentaries on the state of governments across the world. Very well put together. The USA Ausralia the UK Europe all have different foms of Oligarchy. Russia China different forms of tyrany
Oligarchy can lead to tyranny.......
West gave genocide, colonization, plague, Holocaust, mass starvation.
East, mainly India, gave compassion, wisdom, Yoga, Buddhism, number system, Sanskrit, Kama Sutra, joy and happiness.
@@razraza3183 Where did the digital device you are using originate from?
Also the qualities you mention can be present in both societies. Compassion & wisdom did not come exclusively from the East.
Genocide, colonisation, plague, mass starvation have been practiced by Eastern civilisations in the past when it suits them.
@kiwitrainguy
British industrialization was dependent on de-industrialization of India.
British stole 45 Trillion dollars and starved millions to death in India.
There was NO difference between Churchill and Hitler.
@@razraza3183 The East also gave us the mongol Empire who killed tens of millions of people. Joyful and happy indeed. A good number of them were buddhists too! What say you of that?
US is an oligarchy. This is an exact description of US and UK.
The globe
All western nations. We have the same problem tribe.
@@reyray7184 Other nations aren't pricing their poor out of higher education, at least.
@@Emidretrauqe I'm not sure what your point is. Is college free over there or something? Or do they just not have student loans?
We need to take power of money creation (large private banks including federal reserve) and the telecommunication (Ericsson) for this to end
Well done and spot on regarding today’s mess.
Excellent summary of Aristotle's analysis concerning political structures and their inherent risks.
Have studied Aristotle for many years and find he and Socrates were very observant and able to clearly define / analyze / summarize what they saw.
Tired of people saying "What rich people do doesn't affect you" "Rich people aren't the reason you're poor"
Yes, they quite literally are the reason, and they are purposefully affecting EVERYTHING to be worse for the rest of us.
A lot of stuff just side effects and unintended consequences wild visions are focused elsewhere
@@SAR0311 I think they're very specifically focused on keeping people down, the way education has become unaffordable unless you already come from a wealthy family is straight from the playbook laid out here.
They call the rest of us "useless eaters" they want to separate from us while living off of our labor just like it's always played out in history.
This video is an outline of Project 2025.
Well now….
Wealth doesn't necessarily mean the desire to control. Look at 20th century history lots of people who came from working class backgrounds gain power that didn't benefit anyone but, their partners. They usually used that "down with the rich" cliche you are talking
Yes it describes our society to a tee. Thank you for the lesson and thank you Aristotle.
Good review; Plato also had good insights on Oligarchy. Aristotle is a good counterpoint
War, Famine and Revolution has solved oligarchy throughout history.
Luigi Mangione has found another more efficient way to solve it.
We live in a feudal society. We are never educated to overthrow, just given the information needed to comply, unless you are a critical thinker and then you are in detention all the time. ❤
Just what needed to hear...crying for my country kenya...absolutely true ❤❤❤❤
Thanks mate. I now get that what we describe here in Kenya as a democracy is basically oligarchy. Cant be appointed any high office unless you are corrupt, or related to a corrupt fellow. Most people in public office have resources not relative to their known sources of income.
Things have not changed from day 1. I can see a lot of this in Canada right now. Amazing how we are blind to it all.
*been* blinded to it all. Look at the history of education, and you see how school became a preparation ground to make the next generation a bit blinder each passing generation.
The cattle never realize they are being raised for the slaughter
At least you have health care
Aristotle was wrong. Wrong about Oligarchy being unstable. Today we don't have local Oligarchy but it is world wide. Global Oligarchy and its power increase exponentially every day because they have control of global finance, the most powerful military ever, the most sophisticated intelligence system.
Biden was absolutely right about F-22 comment. In Aristotle's time it was as easy as asking for help from neighbouring power; today the average man is disenfranchised, unorganised and technically weaker than a local Policemen. Nobody will leave their comfort of scrolling media and welfare food and shelter for a revolution. Revolution is dead.
You make a lot of sense. But don't forget the black swan of nature. Sometimes the unforeseeable or unexpected happens.
The new terminology for oligarchy is now corporatocracy. This term first came our from a person who was an economic hitman himself (John Perkins) he described in his book how this corporations divide countries between them and start war or strife in the target countries.
There is another book called "all honorable men" I don't remember the author's name now, where he describes how some monopolic corporations were moving money, wealth, and resources during the world war 2 although it was considered high treason thet times. For example, the US standart oil was selling the gasoline to the germans, which needed it for their submarines to work. The same goes for IG Farben, BMW, Mercedes, Ford, Rolls Royce, etc. After he found many relations and connections between bankers, Wall Street, and the Hitler regime, he made a report about it, but it was silenced and undermined. Then he wrote this book, which was banned and just became public in 1990's.
The same goes with the US regime and their connection to the military industrial complex, which gets hundreds of billions worth contracts for a perpetuated war situation. Afghanistan and Iraq wars are one of the best examples with which how they instigate false flag operations and blame other people, and invade their country.
New term just trying to distract attention. To blame companies instead of people.
Fine, once we do this step, it's just easier to see it for what it is: the capital runs business.
Ceos and politicians call the shots, corporations and media carry out the story, but the capital 'instructs'
It's the positive feedback loop more capital more power more capital etc
Although looking at where the capital is, we find a lot in corporations, where it accumulates best due to worldwide 0% capital gain tax. I guess the corporatoctacy makes sense as a name, my problem however is it sort of further helps the owners hide
Anyway, the US doesn't primarily fight wars to keep their military business running, albeit it's a nice side effect for them.
The main reason is to maintain the petrodollar status, keep the global position by displaying readiness to fight
There's only one way to rule a society perfectly, or to mold a perfect society: every single citizen must be perfect, which is why utopia will never happen. The best we can achieve is to improve ourselves as we improve our systems of government, while still remaining fiercely loyal to individual freedoms within the context of a common good. Something like that, anyway.
Governments are ultimately a reflection of the people themselves.
One of the next best ways is to have a society that raises it's youth to be scholars *and* warriors, for the sake of being able to see and understand the workings of the world they live in, along with being able to make or force change if and when it becomes corrupted by a select few.
*This is the exact reason the education system has devolved, making people dumber, and why people are given "bread and circus," distracting them from self improvement and covering their eyes with a false sense of security and peace.
If people want people and society to improve they must first stop using pointlessly generalized terms such as the common good.
I agree. The greatness of the American experiment was the principles it espoused, namely the sanctity of individual rights and a limited government that only exists to protect those rights. Whether the original form the US government took actually embodied those principles is debatable. The principles are good though. We have an opportunity to develop a system that gets closer to those values. With the cold power of technology to control individuals in subtle and overt ways we desperately need to get this accomplished post haste.
A Free Constitutional Republic based on God's Common/Natural Laws was supposed to be an imperfect counter balance!
It's heartbreaking to realize that America has become an oligarchy. We, The People no longer exists
I have never understood why poor people, working class & middle classes vote 🗳 for the Rich Elite!! 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏻♂️🤦🤦🏽♀️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
It's actually a slow form of brainwashing. Under education also contributes to this. If you don't use critical thinking skills you'll believe anything and everything you are told by people who are more powerful than you.
Because our society is awash in propaganda, and sadly propaganda works
Voting, as we know it today, is just a ritual for people to renew their allegiance to those who daily pile up a shit load of stress on them and to reinforce the perceived legitimacy of the system and its army of bureaucrats.
Then you should think about it some more.
Would you vote for someone who is involuntarily homeless? Why not?
Chances are, if they are involuntarily homeless they most likely struggle managing resources to include wealth, time, social resources.
Basically, having wealth usually means you are skilled at managing resources.
You prove your merit by not being poor.
How qualified does that make you to be a leader? It isn't the worst measure, but it shouldn't be your only measure.
And elite, well that is just a classist divide designed to contain and divide the population. Its a lie told by people who feel special about themselves, the people who worship them, and the people who hate them for not being them.
Don't believe the lie. Measure someone on their merits, not their status or purse.
"Basically having wealth usually means you are skilled at managing resources"
...you may want to stop and re-watch the video you are commenting on for a broader perspective on how wealth is usually amassed in these United States.
This short video explains it all. It should be required viewing for all public schools at the appropriate grade levels, but we know that will never happen.