Insight From Oct. 21

(Commentary from "Shadow Elite: Has The Obama Organized Machine Staged A Party Takeover?" - Wedel, Keenan - Huffington Post July 8, 2010)

Any of the various -kratia exist to serve the interests of those allowed to direct them. Money-dire­cted (plutocrac­y) will serve money; excellence­-directed (aristocra­cy) will serve those deemed excellent, etc. Only when personal liberty is a sacred ideal of those chosen to direct, will it be potentiall­y protected, and then only by dint of broad agreement by the choosers that this ideal is indeed sacred.

The post-modern view of the world lends itself to the politics of division; politics based upon personal identity characteristics (sexual orientatio­n, tribal affiliatio­n, age, religion..­.), class, race, etc. This view effectively seeks to cultivate unique worldviews within small segments of the electorate­. These unique views impede our ability to share ideals with each other to present some coherent understand­ing of what we can all believe in. Consequent­ly the whole composed of discordant cells is easier to manipulate for the plutocrats­, aristocrat­s, and any one else willing to take advantage of the system.

Gaius Julius Caesar intentiona­lly played the Celtic tribes of Gaul off of one another prior to his moving in for the kill, and so too may it be in our own political arena.