It's not any great conspiracy, it's not even conscious to a big extent, it's people being people

[Fumesucker]

If something threatens your job, your livelihood as well as your social status that you have struggled for all your life you are going to be extremely biased against it and you will oppose it reflexively in every way.

The establishment is the establishment because it is the group of people who have clawed their way by whatever means necessary to the top of the heap in an ever more competitive and savage political, economic and social environment. Alpha-humans to the core they react to any challenge to their world view and status with aggression. As physical aggression becomes less and less effective and common aggressive behavior doesn't end but rather other forms of aggression are sublimated for the physical.

Oh, there's probably some conspiracy going on but it's a tiny fraction of the overall freakout among the One Percent by which I mean the one one hundredth of a percent actually.

[Scuba]

1. Being born to wealthy parents does not constitute clawing one's way to the top.

[Fumesucker]

2. Someone did it at some point

And they passed their attitudes down to their progeny.

[Scuba]

3. Doesn't that also work in reverse? Being born to down-and-out parents is not the path to riches.

[Fumesucker]

4. The research seems to show that empathy falls with increasing social status and income

Right down to how people drive, those in more expensive cars are more aggressive in traffic. All stochastic behavior of course but statistically valid.

[Zorra]

5. Yes, but physical aggression maintains its effectiveness, it simply becomes

less necessary as other means of control, ie compromised privately owned government/police, control of media/propaganda employed by the PTB, economic oppression resulting from the control of labor, natural resources and other factors and means of production, etc, are employed to keep the sheep in the pasture.

Conspiracy to maintain control does exist to a somewhat greater degree than the example you posted. Before the "Battle of Seattle" in 1999, relatively few people were aware of the WTO. Before Occupy, relatively few people were aware of the degree of overall control of our overall environment that Wall St. maintains.

The establishment was not, and is not, televising the inconvenient facts of the extent of which international economic trade organizations and agreements are being developed by wealthy private interests and then legally implemented.

(pdf)

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS: THE TRANS
PACIFIC TRADE (TPP) AGREEMENT MUST BE DEFEATED (pdf)

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a disastrous trade agreement designed to protect the interests of the largest
multinational corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of
American democracy. It will also negatively impact some of the poorest people in the world.

The TPP is a treaty that has been written behind closed doors by the corporate world.
Incredibly, while Wall Street, the pharmaceutical industry and major media companies have full knowledge as to what is in this treaty, the American people and members of Congress do not. They have been locked out of the process.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/download/the-trans-pacific-trade-tpp-agreement-must-be-defeated?inline=file

The threat of physical aggression is ever present, and physical aggression is and will be employed whenever the PTB deems it necessary to break democratic resistance arising in subjugated populations.



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