The System: Blackmailing

 

The System: Blackmailing

The System has a system within it through which it operates. It is called blackmailing. The System cannot function without this sub-system of blackmailing, its modus operandi of choice. It is its heart and soul, its bloodline. It traps, manipulates, controls, predicts, enslaves, demeans, distracts-deludes-divides-and-rules and, finally, destroys through blackmailing. The real owners and beneficiaries of The System have actively promoted the dark cult of blackmailing, in the same manner that they have promoted another of their cardinal virtues: mediocrity. They have done so very effectively, to the point where blackmailing is now part and parcel of the general culture of Pure-istan and where everyone blackmails everyone else: the bosses blackmail the employers, and the employers blackmail the bosses; women blackmail men, and men blackmail women; children blackmail parents; teachers blackmail students; politicians blackmail the narcotized awam (the people); the media blackmail the politicians; the majority blackmails the minorities; the believers blackmail the doubters; lawyers blackmail the judges, and the judges blackmail the lawyers; and, The Vampires blackmail everyone! After all, The System is The Vampires. 

 A century ago, the economist Joseph Schumpeter suggested the concept of “creative destruction”. He argued, in short, that sometimes, when things become hopeless, beyond repair and reform, it is best to destroy and build anew. Unfortunate, indeed, but perhaps The System in Pure-istan can benefit from Schumpeter's old idea.