Pruning the race, thinning the herd, periodic blood-letting (said to be good for the nation when lower classes are drafted or voluntarily flock to the army to die en masse in wars planned and implemented by the upper classes.
Pogrom, lynching, tyrannous oppression, tribal/clan/gang wars Soviet purge, Irish famine, Scottish border wars, British Raj. Southern race riot, American Bureau of Indian Affairs containment. Destroying a Viet village to save it. Prairie Justice, Pirate Law. Invaders killing all the men and boys, taking away the women and babies as slaves. Armies busting the heads of mine workers on strike, backed up by judicial murder of troublesome agitators….
Examples are abundant and the names for it are legion.
The phenomenon is widespread geographically and across time. The practice of maltreating the ringleaders of any political opposition in an attempt to kill an idea, to maintain control over territory or drive a captive labor force to be productive for the sole benefit of the lords and ladies is the mainspring of the enernal imposing vicious, but partial acts of terror and sustaining a climate of hostility for the purpose of maintaining political control over a targeted portion of humanity.
Plantation overseers, spies, provocateurs, prison guards have a limited license to kill at will.
So long as the action can be kept beneath the radar of public notice by keeping the media muzzled or chained to their own wallets, the practice of limited, partial aggression for maintaining a sustained climate of hostility and punitive domination continues.
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Re: Emily Oster says 'Let's forgive and forget'
Date: 2022-11-06 12:07 am (UTC)Pogrom, lynching, tyrannous oppression, tribal/clan/gang wars
Soviet purge, Irish famine, Scottish border wars, British Raj.
Southern race riot, American Bureau of Indian Affairs containment.
Destroying a Viet village to save it. Prairie Justice, Pirate Law. Invaders killing all the men and boys, taking away the women and babies as slaves. Armies busting the heads of mine workers on strike, backed up by judicial murder of troublesome agitators….
Examples are abundant and the names for it are legion.
The phenomenon is widespread geographically and across time. The practice of maltreating the ringleaders of any political opposition in an attempt to kill an idea, to maintain control over territory or drive a captive labor force to be productive for the sole benefit of the lords and ladies is the mainspring of the enernal imposing vicious, but partial acts of terror and sustaining a climate of hostility for the purpose of maintaining political control over a targeted portion of humanity.
Plantation overseers, spies, provocateurs, prison guards have a limited license to kill at will.
So long as the action can be kept beneath the radar of public notice by keeping the media muzzled or chained to their own wallets, the practice of limited, partial aggression for maintaining a sustained climate of hostility and punitive domination continues.
Business as usual.