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[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

These are not the ruling class.

[–]StillLessons[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Can you expand? If not them, who is? As a pupil of one of these schools, I was surrounded by children of bankers, lawyers, politicians and people high up in the corporate world. Who is the ruling class if not these people?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Soros, Rothschild, Zuckerberg, schwab, gates, Goldman, Sachs, DuPont, Rockefeller, and probably a handful more who's names we don't know. Those are the "royal" families and they rule over the dukes like the Clinton's, bushes, and whomever supervises childless puppets like Merkel.

Not everyone with these names is necessarily in the inner circle but no one in the inner circle does not have these names.

A key indicator is the fact that the people you are talking about have jobs. Someone is paying them to do stuff for them. Royalty does not work.

[–]StillLessons[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You and I are using two different scales to define "the ruling class". Yours is the narrow scale, and in that sense you're right. They are the very top of the pyramid. But no royalty can function without the apparatus of rule around them. This is Orwell's Inner Party vs Outer Party. The Inner Party does not possess the manpower to rule. They require a population of privileged functionaries to enact the mechanics of running the territory. These people also rule in the sense that they manage many of the mechanisms that crush the population around them, and they are rewarded with the benefit of their positions. In the simplest response to what you're saying, I would point out that a monarch never rules a country. The monarch represents a class of thousands of people who - in their sworn allegiance to him/her - actually execute the "rule" in the monarch's name. You have come up with a small group of people who are sitting at the very top of the pyramid. But those people can only exist in co-existence with the larger class of people surrounding them and executing the "rule" of the country. This class is the key to functionality and endurance of any system.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But those people can only exist in co-existence with the larger class of people surrounding them and executing the "rule" of the country.

As the population is culled the need for administrators dwindles. Therfore the population of administrators also must be proportionally reduced. There is no reason to think the administrators would be spared the propaganda or the subversion. It would only introduce the completely unnecessary threat that one of them would grow a conscience and expose the subversion.