Constant wars are part of the Ruling Class play book
Theme 190: evidence of growing Ruling Class authoritative power = diminished human lives for the Surviving Class #SurvivingClass #RulingClass [Updated 2023 11 08]
Personal note: I have been away taking care of family issues related to a sudden and unexpected death. My daughter was thirty-six. I am back now. I am sure this experience will affect future additions to Survival Class.
I start each of these Survival Lessons with a reference to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. The Ruling Class in the novel not only sought complete control over its subjects. It also sought to destroy their human spirits. Subjects with no human spirit are ever pliable to whimsical Ruling Class needs. Subjects with a destroyed human spirit will never be a challenge to the authority of the Ruling Class.
This theme is about the Ruling Class use of war to further its enrichment and control. At this time the danger is the ever-expanding war between Ukraine and Russia. And if this war is insufficient for Ruling Class needs, then China over Taiwan is waiting in the wings.
Goerge Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia [enemy A] or East Asia [enemy B], but to keep the very structure of society intact.
Big Brother in Nineteen-Eighty-Four achieved these societal controls with a constant war with Eurasia or East Asia:
Food resources were constrained to the point of starvation.
Energy was limited creating miserable living conditions.
Constant bombing threats kept society anxious and on edge.
A useful far away enemy kept society energized with hate - distracted from dismal local life conditions.
The useful enemy served as a tag to quell local dissent and fabricate traitors out of potential dissenters.
The focus of this theme is the utility of war as used by the Ruling Class. Since World War II, there have been many major wars: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine. Let us now look at the war in Ukraine as it compares with the Big Brother play book. Without any commentary about virtues or vices regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine, here are some of the outcomes of that war that fit the 1984 goals of such a war:
FOOD - New York Times: “How Russia’s War on Ukraine Is Worsening Global Starvation”
ENERGY- Guardian: “Turn down heating by 1C to reduce need for Russian imports, Europeans told”
ANXIETY - Daily Mail: “Russian cyber gang Killnet brings down websites of 14 top US hospitals and universities - including Stanford and Duke”
DISTRACTION - Fox Business: “Biden says 'Putin's tax on both food and gas' is to blame for record-high inflation”
DISSENTORS - CNN: “Hillary Clinton suggests Russians are ‘grooming’ Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run”
And the beat goes on…
… “the goal is an endless war, not a successful war.”
Sun Tzu: “An evil enemy, will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
I do not know if the wars we are now participating in or might soon be engaging in are to the benefit of the Surviving Class. Nevertheless, I am sure that any such war will be to the benefit of the Ruling Class.
Foreshadowed in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel: War was a constant. There were random yet persistent explosions among the general population, supposedly from the latest enemy that might change instantly to another enemy. Always creating death, injuries, fear and anxiety that was manipulated by Big Brother (Ruling Class,)