The Power Struggle

The Ruling Class was dissected in this blog yesterday - who it is and what it does and how it got its power over a few decades. In summary, the Ruling Class in America is a synthesis of wealthy people who seek power and educated people who seek power. They use that power to control government to move it in directions that increase their incomes and power. They hide their actions under a blanket of mind-numbing complexity in laws and regulations and procedures.

The major communication media are willing partners. Their parasitical coexistence with government gives them special access to "news" and broadcast spectrum; in turn they serve as the propaganda bullhorn for the Ruling Class. Why else would Davos get the nonstop coverage that it does?

The people's struggle now - as many, many seem to recognize now that we've lost control over our own government - is how to vanquish the Ruling Class and get power back to the people.

"Tea party" groups are a start, but they need to recognize that many are being manipulated and partly controlled by billionaires in the Ruling Class who want new rules to permit them to increase their wealth & power.

Elections are crucial. Winning primary and general elections with honest candidates having the backbone - courage - to stand up to the Ruling Class in DC and the State governments and to say NO! NO MORE! Many governmental procedures require consents (implicit or otherwise) of many groups. Getting right thinkers' into power and their noncooperation will gum up the works - throw sand in the gears. They can force the Ruling Class to begin to negotiate and back down. Once the Ruling Class is stopped, the rollback can begin.

Incremental success is crucial. Once some success occurs, more and more people will likely recognize that they can take back their government and then join the movement. The movement needs to by-pass traditional media, but not ignore them. Blogs, web pages, social networking, small meetings and major rallies can work better IF used to pressure traditional media to get onto the bandwagon,. Their own profit motive will help that process.

The people need to elect a few honest people to government at all levels. Then they need to be strident and serve the people. Oppose ALL the devices of the Ruling Class to keep and get more power and income. Expose their sleaze. Call their press sycophants what they are: tools of the Ruling Class. That hurts them; they need an aura of credibility to sell ads and get viewers & subscribers. Fight and don't give up. Don't compromise. Demand what's Right!

This is really a 21st century class struggle (Common Man vs. Ruling Class), but I'm not going to use that term, as many, many people in the US have a negative reaction to that name. Fine. Why be dogmatic? Power Struggle is perfectly good name, too, and is more specific, too.

The movement needs an ideology for unity. An ideology lets people act in concert without direct coordination and cooperation. The ideology acts as a virtual bond between disparate people across the nation: it's like a long range force that permits a correlation of actions of otherwise independent people.

What is that ideology to be?

Long term readers can guess, but I will write about it tomorrow.

Word of the Day

"Trope" - noun [$10]
Trope means a figurative (e. g. metaphorical or ironical) usage of a word.
Sentence: Bunkerman's favorite trope is "hog"; it metaphorically fits the Ruling Class, all those overpaid CEOs and Wall Street leeches. Just imagine a passel of hogs slurping down they can get at the trough, jostling with each other, oinking away in delight and eating everything in sight. It fits perfectly.

Power Outage

I held off turning on my generator until the sun came up, hence my blog prep time got snuffed. No post today.

Krypto will check later for orders from the Machine; if any, I'll post them.

Actions

The Machine wants me to sell some pacific stocks, some European stocks and some gold/gold stocks. I will obey and have put the orders in.

Sweltering ...

The heat here is stunning - about 95F and very humid in the day. Even when the sun goes down, temperatures cool very slowly to 80F at midnight. Why do I know that ? Because the power went out yesterday from around 3PM to about 11:30PM. Sleeping at 80F and humid is a lost art for me. I discovered a flaw in my summer survival plans. The generator circuits do not run my air conditioners. Ughhhhhh.

I have to get the electricians in here to fix that - at least for part of my bunker. Otherwise I'll have to prepare to survive these events on pads & sleeping bags in the deep parts of the bunker - aka the basement. The concrete floor & walls make that very cool.

Why was the power out so long ? The power company says problems with overhead lines, BUT the real reason is high demand surprising them. When power demand stretches and pushes supply to the very edge, any small problem gets magnified greatly. That's what happened here yesterday. By today I hope the power company will have obtained more power from outside the region, or restarted some peak power plants.

By the wind, for wind power advocates ... there was no wind yesterday.

This is why my blog is sparse today - I overslept, making up for the poor early night's sleeping conditions.

Word of the Day

"Concitation" - noun [$1000] archaic, used in T. S. Eliot's poem, "Gerontion".
"Concitate" - verb [$1000] obsolete, rare
"Concite" - verb [$100]
Concitation means stirring up, rousing or exciting; agitation, excitement, esp. of the mind.
Concitate means to stir up, rouse, excite.
Concite means to excite or stir up [appears to be a spelling alternative for concitate.] The word seems to come from "con + cite", with the "cite" root based on Latin citare and the root "cite" relies on old usages of that word meaning to summon or call, rouse to action. The "citation" for military gallantry used this meaning.
Sentence: If a few more days of this poor power service occur, public concitation for better power supply might reach critical point. The power companies should focus less on wind, etc. and more on new natural gas peak power plants and nuclear base load plants. Those are proven to be reliable.