The Ruling Class

It is easy to conclude that the ruling class is "stupid" when viewed through our own lens. We judge them by our standards, our values, our understanding of the world. Of course their actions make no sense by that measure because that is not the measure they use.

The ruling class seeks ever more wealth and power for a simple reason: they live in constant terror of being consumed by their peers. They are a roiling mass, forever devouring, because the moment they stop feeding, they begin to decay. We may share human bodies, but their priorities are a twisted version of ours.

I believe much of what we call mental illness stems from the violent attempt to force human beings to conform to an inhuman system. We do not need to be fixed. We need to redesign the world for humans, not for the machine of capital.