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There are currently two oligarchic  trends   that compete with each  other for predominance in the world. One is comprised of those involved  in arms development and war related technologies, principally calling  themselves Democrats, and those in the business and production of  merchandise goods, generally called Conservatives. Although they compete  for the money raised from the general public for their own benefit,  neither one ultimately  work for the good of the citizens. They work for  their own profit.  Those two sectors although adversaries work together  to control governments whose intrinsic purpose is to advocate for the  common good. Those sectors buy politicians that create laws beneficial  for them and reinforce those laws with judges of their own design. It is  a slow process but they have been able to gain quite an influence in  the world today.

The addiction to money, like any addiction is chronic, progressive  and fatal. Consequently, guided by this pathology, the rich sets out on a  path of self destruction that unfortunately now involves the general  public.  The letter of  St.  James in the New Testament, Chapter 5,  describes these realities  well enough. 

The public has been transformed into consumers. People are not viewed  by the oligarchs as human beings but entities that consume. Treated as  such and educated as consumers the whole of society will consume itself  out of existence. 

Schools and universities prepare new generations of workers for these  economic sectors. The purpose of education for these groups is not how  to think but what to think. Therefore, new generations of workers are  prepared in ignorance to serve the means of production. The bond between  the workers and the owners of the means of production was at one time  somewhat mutually beneficial. The worker would offer his time and effort  to the company, and the owners of the company would take care of the  workers and their families' well being. For a short while this was so.  Benefits for the families and a decent standard of living for the  workers was offered and supported. However, as the addiction to money  progresses from chronic to its fatal stage, the bond between workers and  the owners of the means of production breaks down. There is never  enough money for the addict to capital or money. Workers, therefore,   were abandoned in their own homeland, and cheap labor was sought  elsewhere for the sake of more profit.  The bond was broken and society  began to descend into chaos and dissolution in the 2oth century. The  same workers that supported wars abroad and the capitalistic interests  of their bosses saw themselves betrayed. However, they are still  supporting the same bosses and politicians because they secretly envy  their "success".  It is only some of the intellectuals and younger ,  more sane generations, who realize the sickness of consumerism.  Indeed,  the working class is complicit in the madness.

Wars are inevitable when those two oligarchical sectors from one  country need the resources of another. Consumption eventually makes  everything scarce. The powerful will continue to invade and appropriate  resources from weaker or less militarized nations in the world. Here the  business sector and the weapons technology sectors of each society work  together. They need each other to conquer new resources in other  nations but they compete with each other thereafter for those same  resources. It is a game of convenience and some of them even consider it  a high stakes society game. Some of these oligarchs consider it their  destiny to rule and manage whole societies and they take this ideology  quite seriously while other sectors within them are in it for the  pleasure of a luxurious life style. Those two sectors  are often seeing  criticizing each other. It is like a father and son relationship in  which the father has taken a serious role while the son indulges in  pleasures. At the end, both groups are delusional, living an unnatural  life. There are special clubs and organizations whose only purpose is  offering luxurious accommodations for the business and war technology  groups to plan, entertain and profit from these war-business games.

What is the nature of their pathological delusions?

It begins with an obsession, circular, repetitive thinking regarding  their own importance in relation to nature. Their condition is inherited  through their social and family upbringing. The pleasures they are  raised with and lack of consequences for their behavior feeds a certain  sense of omnipotence and infallibility and acts as reinforcer of  behavior. There is an ideology that maintains this delusion and even  explains it, e.g. "our ancestors", "family traditions", genetic  superiority, etc. This type of people do not think of death, the nature  of  man or the common purpose of humanity. They think only in individual  terms and have no regard for others. Therefore, they live a life  essentially deeply fragmented from humanity itself and their own  humanity, a sort of schizoid mind state en relation to others. This  leads to isolation which further cuts them off from their human-self.  This isolation produces the psychopathic conduct this type of people are  known for. Crimes are tools, not immoral behavior. Lies are means of  seduction not unethical conduct; war is a fair instrument  for obtaining  their financial and political goals, etc. They are the actors of their  own play with a script written for them by their families and  associations. Some of them are born rich and they only have to maintain  themselves that way. New individuals who join the rank of the rich  strive to maintain their new status by adopting the old doctrine,  although they are not well regarded by  the  old-money groups. Few  new-money individuals escape this temptation to assimilate the old  doctrine.  Their self esteem depends upon it.

Why is it delusional? Because nature as manifested in every species  intends that the members of the same species take care of each other in a  collective harmony. Elephants move in packs taking care of each other  and enjoying each other. Dolphins, whales, monkeys, lions, etc. each and   all protect each other and seems to have a sense of unity and  familiarity. Compare that with the capitalist mentality where the  members of the human species are consumable goods. People can be used  and discarded at will. Their well being is irrelevant. Only profit is  relevant. What can be more contra natura, sin against nature, than this  mentality? In the book of the Apocalypse these individuals are compared  to the locusts that devour everything in their path and their advances  are progressive, chronic and fatal. (Apocalypse Chapter 9, 3-on). This  process begun about 500 years ago with the appearance of Capitalism, the  worship of capital or money, in the world stage. Capitalism can be  properly named cannibalism.   

The need of the Western oligarchs  in the US, UK and Europe to  dominate through the financial system and the oil economy, regardless of  the environment, which they are not interested in, will eventually  pressure Europe particularly to follow their guidance and pressure other  world powers like China and Russia to disengage from Europe. The  Western oligarchic sectors of oil and finances considers Europe, the  western world and, indeed, the whole world as "their" market. Hence,  they perceive China, Russia, India and anyone else as a "threat" to  their dominance.

The prospect of nuclear confrontation with other nations is  irrelevant to those international oligarchic sectors that fantasize they  can survive anyway. This is the madness and delusion of addiction to  money and power which is like any addiction always chronic, progressive  and fatal, if not stopped.

Society's disintegration will accelerate until those  above-mentioned   sectors reach the fatal phase of addiction. Here, in desperation,  powerful nations mobilized by these groups of oligarchs will attack  other powerful nations with mutually destructive consequences. Twice  this happened in the 20th century. These events will repeat themselves  in the early 21th century.

Claudio Amadeus, December 24th, 2021