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.
@@doublecrossedswine112 The point is that you can have elites genuinely concerned about what's best for the nation. While rare and usually short lived, most regions have experienced this kind of elite rule at least once or twice in their history. Typically the concern for the greater good disappears when the children or grandchildren of the good elites inherit their families wealth and power while having no concern for the common people.
@@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.
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 😢
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.
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.
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 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.
'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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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
@@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."
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...
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).
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
Wow, congratulations on your impressive investment success! Your discipline and focus on delayed gratification is truly inspiring. I'm curious, what are some of the key factors that you consider when making investment decisions? Do you have any tips for those of us who are just starting to dip our toes into the world of investing? Thanks for sharing your story!
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.
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.
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?
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
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 💔
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?
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
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!
I read something about this type of thing before in one of my readings about Aristotle. I was left somewhat confused at the time, thanks for helping me to better understand what I read. Well done!
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.
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.
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.
The most mind-blowing thing is how the richest man in the world joined a nepo-baby billionaire to run on a populist platform while having half the country doing their bidding for them. This will be impossible for future generations to understand.
Was gonna comment on this timestamp too. I feel like the US has a system that benefits those with more wealth, and certainly makes the process "too expensive for most people" in ways.. but also feel like we just kinda made a loop hole. We didn't say "you need X amount to run period" we said, "whoever has the most will have a 90% chance of winning"
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..
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
All of us are much closer to being homeless than becoming rich. Rich oligarchs make their money off of the working people. They have no problem exploiting people for their own gain. It's a story as old as the creation of money.
@@vaska1999 yup four times in fact . Did you watch it and understand? Oligarchies aren't just about gaining money they are mostly about having power and control. They love systems where you have to jump through hoops often because they (and their friends) have a dictatorship over that system and will become rich off of it . The best way to rob the rich from controlling people and systems is to have systems where people can better themselves or a way for the common person to rise up to places of power but can't close off the system to maintain power for themselves.
@@maxstrike3022A consensual agreement that you are forced to do depending on the class and place that you are born in. The idea that something derives from pure free will because we choose that relies on the idea that everyone starts under the same conditions, and this is simply not true. Some people are forced to work worse and more exausting works just by virtue of being born in a specific place, at an specific time.
to makes things worse, many of the most influential U.S. oligarchs belong to a very specific tribe, which means their ethnic interests are focused on a small country in the middle east, not the US at all.
It did exist. The reason Ben Frank said we have it if we can keep it is because it takes constant participation from all citizens to maintain it. But we havent been maintainting and so they slowly took control while most of us were asleep at the wheel. Id say its not too late to take it back but they have us surrounded with their technology. Wheather we revolt or we subit, its not going to be pretty.
@@UncleLouigisfamousyt I have to agree with the first replier: it never existed. My reasoning is at the beginning only land-owning white males were allowed to vote and hold office. Also, the Senate was not an elected body but appointed by state legislatures. The US government in effect started off as a partially elected, partially appointed Aristocracy. You need to ask yourself why so many of the founding fathers and first presidents were very wealthy Southern slave-holding plantation owners or very rich merchants from New England. More participation in deciding government was allowed but it was counter-balanced with the simultaneous rise of ultra wealthy industrial robber-barrons who individually, let alone collectively, could override the power of the Federal government. Our once partially elected partially appointed Aristocracy has since completely devolved into an Oligarchy with the pageantry and trappings of pretending to be a democratic republic.
It's still there, in the very exact same form it has ever been, serving exact same purpose. It's cosmetic, an instruction on how to *appear* not how to be. Every political party _says_ they are by and for the people. Of course they only have certain of people in mind. Don't think it has ever been different. Similar goes for 'protect and serve' by police. They actually loyal to this idea, only that it doesn't refer to the nation and people - but rather to the system and power
2500 years ago, guys with sticks and stones calculate the diameter of the Earth, and perfectly predict political systems. The human mind is pretty awesome
Ancient Greeks were found to have early versions of computers sunk with their ships before they collapsed. To call that civilization people with sticks and stones is hilarious. They weren't hunter gatherers 😂 my god education has really failed us
*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.
This is what exactly happening in US and most counties except few lucky countries in Europe. Politics became a tool to get rich, pass laws that benefit them only. Wealthy few totally set the whole system from justice, business and higher government and lawmakers. In case of US it is now you can see how money bought their democracy.
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.
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.
Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics are publicly available in the United States. It is your job as a parent to educate your children while the public & private school system is merely a tool to achieve the goal. It is your responsibility as a parent to fill in where that tool fails. Take initiative, take responsibility, teach your children these things, dont rely on the system to completely educate your children, your state clearly has limits. There's a ton of whining in this comment section. The responsibility falls on a parent not the state.
and when parents can't/won't?.. many would refute your claim it's their 'job'.. many simply wouldn't be capable of doing it.. others too occupied/tired from earning a living.. and so on.. your argument is easy to flip over
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
The oligarchy in canada was originally called the family compact. The blood lineage is a powerful means unfortunately laughed at by oligarchs and their flying monkeys...
Thank you so much for giving us such a clear idea of what kind of government we have today (en-route to oligarchy) or something like that. Not a reassuring news but at least we know what to expect. Good work.
As a person born around 1980, it saddens me that society had already peaked in my childhood. The era where society worked for the greater good was the Cold War world order, due in no small part to the elite's fear of revolution that there was an alternative system on the other side. This forced the elites to make concessions which raised the standards and living conditions of the workers. The end of the Cold War also meant the end of this golden era for the working class. Society has been on a downward trend of increasing inequality, increasing social conflict, and increasing conflict between nations ever since. Oligarchy is a very good description where we are at. Interestingly, Aristotle rejected democracy as merely tyranny of the masses, and on this matter, he was right. I can see society evolve towards either tyranny or mob democracy. I don't see a return towards a society of goodwill and high trust in my life time, at least not in Western countries. In fact, the countries where common good prevails today are those who were recently poor and whose people still have good qualities. I think societies like South Korea, China, Singapore, Vietnam might fit this category.
Yes few people realize that the Socialist movement in the 1930's was responsible for the Golden Age of Capitalism, where the middle class achieved 67% of the wealth. After the great depression hit, FDR took huge strides to tax the wealthy appropriately and facilitate unionization of workers. The Fall of Soviet Union meant as you said, that Western governments and the Elite could now stop worrying about Socialism.
The Globalists have gone beyond the classical descriptions of government, by inserting their rule on once sovereign nations. The people are still living under the old form, but that is just an illusion at this point. America will soon be bankrupt, the dollar, which is always being inflated in value, will eventually tank, and what will emerge then ? Enslavement of humanity is in the works. And the elite wants to control everything on the planet. With the current technology available they can track and surveil everything that's going on. Incredible ? of course, but it's here and we're living in it for now, but with all the crises being created, and the end game involves reducing humanity to 500 million, we have Democide, i.e., that killing of the people that the State governs. This cannot turn out well. Yes, it is a perversion and Aristotle points out both sides of the coin. The current situation is certainly unstable, which is good in one sense, because the current Oligarchs cannot maintain their control, but bad for everyone in society that is trying to live a reasonable life. WWIII is likely on the horizon, a very visible horizon, because the Globalist Cabal wants complete control even as it is slipping away from them. And the People are just chattel that they control. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The call for Freedom has never been more in earnest, and seemingly farther away.
@@dormilon36It all depends on where you are. In Europe and Japan 80's were clearly the peak society, but in the USA the peak was decade or two earlier.
Dude that was not the peak. I was born in 1982 and I will tell you right now from every boomer I have talked to the peak of the USA was the 1950s and 1960s. People were buying houses with a single income. A single income provided for a large family of 5+ children. Americans could vacation in Europe dirt cheap (WW2 aftermath) the criminals were dealt with swiftly and the insane were put in asylums rather than roaming the streets as homeless. There was massive optimism and most Americans saw improvement in their lives. There were downsides such as institutional racism especially in the South, and from the non White boomers I talked to they definitely didn't enjoy the 1950s and 60s nearly as much as the Whites for that specific reason. Being denied an apartment, a job, or worse in that era for being a specific race or even religion. But the USA in general was way better off during the 50s and 60s, its important to note that Whites were the vast majority of the US population during that era, like 90% or so of the US population. So while minorities in the South didn't have it so great, Whites did and minorities in the North also had it pretty good. Honestly I have not met a single boomer that thought their era was worse than the 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.
If you formally own the country’s land as a monarch, you make more money by increasing the value of your real estate than by selling favors and starting foreign wars. That real estate is worth more when it houses productive assets, and taxes revenues are higher when the population is more productive.
But no man rules alone & no common person has the direct power to set government policy so has there ever actually been such a thing as a true monarch (rule by 1) or a democracy (rule by many)? All societies are oligarchies (rule by the few) & the difference is only the style/tone of their pr imo.
@@johnnyshanksalot8358 you can design a system where the monarch makes the final call on everything, even if most of the day to day management is done by the oligarchs. Its mainly about who owns things. You can give oligarchs partial ownership if you want, like shares in the state, but the final decisions could still be made by the monarch.
@@MrClockw3rk Not possible for reasons already stated, even Caesar proved that the power rests with the praetorian guard because they can take him out whenever they want. Monarchy is an illusion/narrative for public consumption not a description of an actual reality, it never has been.
@10:00. Elections themselves are aristocratic. In fact, aristotle said so. If we want regular people to rule, we must use sortition. My personal preference is multi-body sortition by Terry Bouricius.
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.
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?
@@doublecrossedswine112 The point is that you can have elites genuinely concerned about what's best for the nation. While rare and usually short lived, most regions have experienced this kind of elite rule at least once or twice in their history. Typically the concern for the greater good disappears when the children or grandchildren of the good elites inherit their families wealth and power while having no concern for the common people.
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.
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!
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.
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.
"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.
"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.
It's a small club
Even in "the club" there are levels of hierarchy...just like an HOA, yacht or golf club...
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. 😕
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.
'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 😳
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
"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
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."
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.
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.
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 .
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"Imagine a hypothetical society..." We don't have to imagine it, we're experiencing it right here right now.
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.!
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.
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
It's amazing what ancient people knew. Maybe we should stop throwing out ancient philosophies, assuming that they are obsolete?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
What a great satirical piece, told as if we were not already within an oligarchy.
Since 1913
Imagine that!
Satirical? Think again.
Studying true history is seeing the future.
Nothing new under the sun.
In Greece instead of teaching us ancient Greek thought (maybe they dont want for obvious reasons) they teach us ancient Greek grammar and syntax.
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.
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.
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.
This was very informative and well explained! I think we can see how relative it is when applied to the events taking place in the US right now.
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
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 💔
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
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
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
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
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!
I read something about this type of thing before in one of my readings about Aristotle. I was left somewhat confused at the time, thanks for helping me to better understand what I read. Well done!
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.
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
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.
I love the “hypothetical” examples that are ripped from today’s headlines across the globe!!
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.
One of the most meaningful things I've listened to in a while.
Thank you for this.
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.
The most mind-blowing thing is how the richest man in the world joined a nepo-baby billionaire to run on a populist platform while having half the country doing their bidding for them. This will be impossible for future generations to understand.
I'm surprised and glad to see so much interest in Aristotle, the politics of oligarchy, and this channel.
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.
I read Aristotle's Politics in 1978 when I first went to college. It turned out it was all I really needed to know.
This video is more relevant than ever before.
4:31 the explanation why the US is an oligarchy.
Was gonna comment on this timestamp too. I feel like the US has a system that benefits those with more wealth, and certainly makes the process "too expensive for most people" in ways.. but also feel like we just kinda made a loop hole. We didn't say "you need X amount to run period" we said, "whoever has the most will have a 90% chance of winning"
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..
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
I love how you keep saying "hypothetical society" before describing something happening in a prominent western country right now. Good stuff
All of us are much closer to being homeless than becoming rich. Rich oligarchs make their money off of the working people. They have no problem exploiting people for their own gain. It's a story as old as the creation of money.
The problem isn't that the rich do this but there is a lack of systems that allow for meritocracy and easy options for people to walk away
@@raven-sf3di Have you really listened to this lecture at all?
@@vaska1999 yup four times in fact . Did you watch it and understand?
Oligarchies aren't just about gaining money they are mostly about having power and control. They love systems where you have to jump through hoops often because they (and their friends) have a dictatorship over that system and will become rich off of it .
The best way to rob the rich from controlling people and systems is to have systems where people can better themselves or a way for the common person to rise up to places of power but can't close off the system to maintain power for themselves.
Working for income isn't exploitation. It's a consentual agreement. Quit trying to make excuses not to work, comrade.
@@maxstrike3022A consensual agreement that you are forced to do depending on the class and place that you are born in.
The idea that something derives from pure free will because we choose that relies on the idea that everyone starts under the same conditions, and this is simply not true. Some people are forced to work worse and more exausting works just by virtue of being born in a specific place, at an specific time.
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!
Sums up Canada and US very nicely.
And Australia and Britain.
to makes things worse, many of the most influential U.S. oligarchs belong to a very specific tribe, which means their ethnic interests are focused on a small country in the middle east, not the US at all.
Spot on. Where did the "For the people and by the people" go?
It's never existed.
It did exist. The reason Ben Frank said we have it if we can keep it is because it takes constant participation from all citizens to maintain it. But we havent been maintainting and so they slowly took control while most of us were asleep at the wheel. Id say its not too late to take it back but they have us surrounded with their technology. Wheather we revolt or we subit, its not going to be pretty.
@@UncleLouigisfamousyt I have to agree with the first replier: it never existed. My reasoning is at the beginning only land-owning white males were allowed to vote and hold office. Also, the Senate was not an elected body but appointed by state legislatures. The US government in effect started off as a partially elected, partially appointed Aristocracy. You need to ask yourself why so many of the founding fathers and first presidents were very wealthy Southern slave-holding plantation owners or very rich merchants from New England. More participation in deciding government was allowed but it was counter-balanced with the simultaneous rise of ultra wealthy industrial robber-barrons who individually, let alone collectively, could override the power of the Federal government. Our once partially elected partially appointed Aristocracy has since completely devolved into an Oligarchy with the pageantry and trappings of pretending to be a democratic republic.
That was a slogan, not a reality.
It's still there, in the very exact same form it has ever been, serving exact same purpose.
It's cosmetic, an instruction on how to *appear* not how to be. Every political party _says_ they are by and for the people. Of course they only have certain of people in mind.
Don't think it has ever been different.
Similar goes for 'protect and serve' by police. They actually loyal to this idea, only that it doesn't refer to the nation and people - but rather to the system and power
Good review; Plato also had good insights on Oligarchy. Aristotle is a good counterpoint
2500 years ago, guys with sticks and stones calculate the diameter of the Earth, and perfectly predict political systems. The human mind is pretty awesome
ERATOSTHENES!
Sticks and metal lol I agree though
The Ancient Greeks were hardly "guys with sticks and stones".
Ancient Greeks were found to have early versions of computers sunk with their ships before they collapsed. To call that civilization people with sticks and stones is hilarious. They weren't hunter gatherers 😂 my god education has really failed us
did you see their sticks or stones? :))
Great informative video that should've been commercialized or on the Campaigns website this year 💎
Yes it describes our society to a tee. Thank you for the lesson and thank you Aristotle.
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.
Well done and spot on regarding today’s mess.
This is what exactly happening in US and most counties except few lucky countries in Europe.
Politics became a tool to get rich, pass laws that benefit them only. Wealthy few totally set the whole system from justice, business and higher government and lawmakers. In case of US it is now you can see how money bought their democracy.
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.
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!
Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics are publicly available in the United States. It is your job as a parent to educate your children while the public & private school system is merely a tool to achieve the goal. It is your responsibility as a parent to fill in where that tool fails. Take initiative, take responsibility, teach your children these things, dont rely on the system to completely educate your children, your state clearly has limits.
There's a ton of whining in this comment section. The responsibility falls on a parent not the state.
You are right, we, the parents, are the ones responsible for our kids general education.
and when parents can't/won't?.. many would refute your claim it's their 'job'.. many simply wouldn't be capable of doing it.. others too occupied/tired from earning a living.. and so on.. your argument is easy to flip over
@@slokim9102parents can't teach what they have not learned.
@@Katie-yu1cv gotta start somewhere and excuses aren't really a beginning are they?
It used to be taught in school along with critical thinking. Now they don't. They want braindead, blind obedience.
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
Just what needed to hear...crying for my country kenya...absolutely true ❤❤❤❤
The oligarchy in canada was originally called the family compact. The blood lineage is a powerful means unfortunately laughed at by oligarchs and their flying monkeys...
And the Chateau Clique.
Blood lineage is laughable even by peasants.... your flying monkey metaphor is obtuse...are we not all flying monkeys these days = airlines
Masonic Lodge Leeches!
Be glad you’re not one of them - no matter what people think. You have light!
Thank you so much for giving us such a clear idea of what kind of government we have today (en-route to oligarchy) or something like that. Not a reassuring news but at least we know what to expect. Good work.
As a person born around 1980, it saddens me that society had already peaked in my childhood. The era where society worked for the greater good was the Cold War world order, due in no small part to the elite's fear of revolution that there was an alternative system on the other side. This forced the elites to make concessions which raised the standards and living conditions of the workers. The end of the Cold War also meant the end of this golden era for the working class. Society has been on a downward trend of increasing inequality, increasing social conflict, and increasing conflict between nations ever since. Oligarchy is a very good description where we are at. Interestingly, Aristotle rejected democracy as merely tyranny of the masses, and on this matter, he was right. I can see society evolve towards either tyranny or mob democracy. I don't see a return towards a society of goodwill and high trust in my life time, at least not in Western countries. In fact, the countries where common good prevails today are those who were recently poor and whose people still have good qualities. I think societies like South Korea, China, Singapore, Vietnam might fit this category.
Yes few people realize that the Socialist movement in the 1930's was responsible for the Golden Age of Capitalism, where the middle class achieved 67% of the wealth. After the great depression hit, FDR took huge strides to tax the wealthy appropriately and facilitate unionization of workers. The Fall of Soviet Union meant as you said, that Western governments and the Elite could now stop worrying about Socialism.
The Globalists have gone beyond the classical descriptions of government, by inserting their rule on once sovereign nations. The people are still living under the old form, but that is just an illusion at this point. America will soon be bankrupt, the dollar, which is always being inflated in value, will eventually tank, and what will emerge then ? Enslavement of humanity is in the works. And the elite wants to control everything on the planet. With the current technology available they can track and surveil everything that's going on. Incredible ? of course, but it's here and we're living in it for now, but with all the crises being created, and the end game involves reducing humanity to 500 million, we have Democide, i.e., that killing of the people that the State governs. This cannot turn out well.
Yes, it is a perversion and Aristotle points out both sides of the coin. The current situation is certainly unstable, which is good in one sense, because the current Oligarchs cannot maintain their control, but bad for everyone in society that is trying to live a reasonable life. WWIII is likely on the horizon, a very visible horizon, because the Globalist Cabal wants complete control even as it is slipping away from them. And the People are just chattel that they control. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The call for Freedom has never been more in earnest, and seemingly farther away.
1980 was not the peak you believe it was!
@@dormilon36It all depends on where you are. In Europe and Japan 80's were clearly the peak society, but in the USA the peak was decade or two earlier.
Dude that was not the peak. I was born in 1982 and I will tell you right now from every boomer I have talked to the peak of the USA was the 1950s and 1960s. People were buying houses with a single income. A single income provided for a large family of 5+ children. Americans could vacation in Europe dirt cheap (WW2 aftermath) the criminals were dealt with swiftly and the insane were put in asylums rather than roaming the streets as homeless. There was massive optimism and most Americans saw improvement in their lives. There were downsides such as institutional racism especially in the South, and from the non White boomers I talked to they definitely didn't enjoy the 1950s and 60s nearly as much as the Whites for that specific reason. Being denied an apartment, a job, or worse in that era for being a specific race or even religion. But the USA in general was way better off during the 50s and 60s, its important to note that Whites were the vast majority of the US population during that era, like 90% or so of the US population. So while minorities in the South didn't have it so great, Whites did and minorities in the North also had it pretty good. Honestly I have not met a single boomer that thought their era was worse than the 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.
If you formally own the country’s land as a monarch, you make more money by increasing the value of your real estate than by selling favors and starting foreign wars.
That real estate is worth more when it houses productive assets, and taxes revenues are higher when the population is more productive.
But no man rules alone & no common person has the direct power to set government policy so has there ever actually been such a thing as a true monarch (rule by 1) or a democracy (rule by many)? All societies are oligarchies (rule by the few) & the difference is only the style/tone of their pr imo.
@@johnnyshanksalot8358 you can design a system where the monarch makes the final call on everything, even if most of the day to day management is done by the oligarchs. Its mainly about who owns things. You can give oligarchs partial ownership if you want, like shares in the state, but the final decisions could still be made by the monarch.
@@MrClockw3rk Not possible for reasons already stated, even Caesar proved that the power rests with the praetorian guard because they can take him out whenever they want. Monarchy is an illusion/narrative for public consumption not a description of an actual reality, it never has been.
@10:00. Elections themselves are aristocratic. In fact, aristotle said so. If we want regular people to rule, we must use sortition. My personal preference is multi-body sortition by Terry Bouricius.
Nice job explaining the current government of the USA, an oligarchy in danger of becoming a tyranny.