WESTERN ELITES HAVE NOWHERE TO GO BUT DOWN

Naturally they justify their existences. They have clawed their way to the top of the heap. Are they likely to be filled with agonizing contrition, longing to descend back down that slippery slope to slum it with the rest of humanity?

The number of consolation prizes for losing your soul in the callous, cynical and single-minded pursuit of personal ambition are many. The hard-headed way such people conceive of others on the way up serves them well when they get there. Such are these wizened souls with super-wizened consciences that they perceive the rest of us in a stony-eyed, clinical sympathy as those they left behind.

Those who strive to reach these heights know well what they are doing and what they have to do to get there and stay there. They are under no illusions that they are going to do widespread good if they ever had such notions to begin with.

It is a cynical as well as a very smug world. Those who enter the orbit of the elites feel they have finally arrived where they always knew they were destined to be. In this world everyone knows the score, the rules are known though never stated. If anything states the rules it is in visual patterns of both speech and dress, in what you wear and how you form your words. If self-censorship is needed it is only until a newbie masters the initial semi-hidden signals. Within a day or two, or at most a couple of weeks this is done.

The elites of our world are little battalions of a much larger army. The uniforms and uniform forms of thought and speech designate them. Those with gravitas lead, those with their office suites, those who have maximal access to company budgets and most of all, those who are known to deploy the perks of license when a release is required to bond the squad.

We, the bovine herd of irrational squabblers, poor in pocket and virtually unemployable are seen as tiny, almost imperceptible specks far below the well-appointed, lofty and super-secure and secluded corporate, government or embassy enclosures. The uninformed, the pretty comical squealers who never made it and who it is their job to control and ensure they don’t trouble their superiors.

Elites love their world. It rewards them well as long as they obey the implicit rules that govern every aspect of their time. And in general they obey very well. They know what the outcome will be if they do not, if they suddenly become concerned that truth has nothing at all to do with their work and how they act, plan or communicate. Only once in a very blue moon does one of their number rebel out of an excess of conscience. Such cases are so extremely rare that they can be seen to be the exceptions that prove the rule of otherwise complete compliance to the ethos of lies, propaganda, PR and falsity that is the standard in whatever elite is in question.

Chris Hedges resigned from the New York Times because he couldn’t stomach the lies, omissions and pressure to conform regarding the second Iraq war. He is arguably the most experienced foreign correspondent the western press ever had. He is now the most prominent critic of the West’s elites and the chaos and misery they cause.

Craig Murray was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan. He got in trouble with the British Government for exposing torture, was sacked and is now an activist and acerbic commentator on western foreign policy.

Glenn Greenwald did rise to elite status within the journalistic profession by his work with Edward Snowden. He could have stayed within the elite he rose so quickly to join, however he has remained an eloquent critic of them instead and recently resigned from the organization he helped form as they tried to censor him.

Those who leave the conformist ranks of whatever elite they find themselves in are few. Most remain and obey the rules, censor themselves and keep strictly to narratives they know will find no resistance within the enormously well-paid clique to which they belong. They will supply what’s wanted in other words. The lesser dogs within these elites make sure  they never, ever bite the hand that feeds them.

With Russia being the whipping boy required for whatever purpose, they dutifully supply the copy needed, no question. is someone to be smeared? Jeremy Corbyn perhaps? Or Bernie Sanders? Maybe Scott Ritter (another luminary within another elite position as a WMD search team leader in Iraq who went “rogue)? It’s as good as done.

And if the CIA, NSA or FBI are required to lend a hand you can be sure they will do so with alacrity... all you need do is append a note claiming it’s a matter of state security. The report and text for the media will be on someone’s desk by mid-morning.

It’s tough at the top they say. But every last man jack and happy presstitute knows just how TRULY tough it is at the bottom however...

And they know if they don’t mind their ‘p’s and ‘q’s and obey all the unwritten laws, if they show any signs of independence of thought or honesty... they will be on their way down there as soon as you can say designer shirt or private school.

These western elites have no where to go but down... so lying and betraying those below who are crying out for truth... becomes their very mindfully, ultra-well-heeled profession.