27/4/2015
He who has power
Arms
Faith / Religion
Money
He who wields power through money has the greatest but perhaps most fragile power
Engines of Domination – Mark Corske
Mark Corske, author of “Engines of Domination,” joins the Free Radical Media Podcast to discuss his work, philosophy, and recent short film.
“Engines of Domination” with Mark Corske – Disinformation
Mark Corske’s Engines of Domination, a Lifting the Veil documentary, addresses the question of whether so many of humanity’s most destructive acts are simply part of our nature. When we observe species in nature, we often infer that the behavior we are watching is their natural inclination – so if we were to observe ourselves from the same omnipotent vantage point, would we not be inclined to assume that so many of our despicable acts are just part of who we are?
Through a narrative device depicting a young apprentice of the great philosopher Socrates traveling in a Oracle time machine towards present day, and then returning to discuss what she saw during the trip with him, the film portrays what we understand as political power – acentral authority over large groups of people, controlled by men of privilege – as having the primary intent of steering the populations under their influence to fulfill the self-serving needs of those men.
Would large groups of people pick up chainsaws and hop into the driver’s seat of bulldozers to clear entire forests if a corporation wasn’t organizing them to do so? Would thousands of men pick up weapons and kill each other if governments didn’t force them to? Would men and women file into factories for hours a day if they hadn’t been forced off rural lands they were living off of?
Corske thinks not, and the film caters to that viewpoint throughout. The “human emergency,” as he calls it, is a result of institutions forcing us to behave against human nature.
Corske goes on to explain that civilization and political power as we customarily understand it has only been a part of human life for about 6000 years – less than three percent of our evolutionary advancement. Prior to that change, we lived in relative peace much the way communal mammals outside our own species behave.
Chimpanzees, for example, are not entirely adverse to interspecies violence, but it is rarely seen outside of one-on-one squabbles over immediate and personal needs.
Men banding together to kill each other accompanied the advent of society, and one has a hard time believing that it was a sudden genetic mutation that took place at exactly that time that altered our inclination to engage in what we call war.
Poetry –
Be careful what you believe / faith
Relive / wraith
gases, gas’s, gasses, rose tinted glasses
Organised religion is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful of debt / money
Bet sweat threat / honey funny
Amasses morasses
Money is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful of what brand you support
Report rapport deport
Amasses morasses
Consumerism is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful what you are willing to fight for / war
abhor
field glasses
The military is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful of the law
more
harasses
The Police is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful of patriotism / state / country
Quarrelsome sarcasm
asses
The State is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful of the work you do
molasses, morasses
The Job is a tool used by elites to control masses
Be careful how you learn
Learning yearning
classes, class’s
Education is a tool used by elites to control masses
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