RE: The Billionaire Boys Survival Club
Four cardinal virtues serve as pillars to civilization: wisdom, justice, temperance, ans fortitude. The West has a fifth virtue - fear and obedience to their Christian God. Yet, all these qualities are as worthless as a fool's counsel, in governing a state, without the will to rule with an iron fist. The West, obsessively demanding meaningless "freedoms" and compulsively fearful in loss of previleges, has degenerated their civilization to mere mercantile consortium. The West is not governed, but rather is operated as a business. The West has financial resources, but not power; it has managers but not rulers.
These merchant scum have amassed too much resources and influence in the West, precisely due to the lack of a firm ruling hand at the rudder of the state. Will of the ruler, whether he be king, or even an educated populace, is paramount in how a state functions. Even if all the resources were stripped from these merchant scum and distributed to the populace, would the current demos have the will to govern, or would they merely be sated with the next iPhone? Modern "freedom" is but license for the muck to remain voluntary slaves to mercantile gnomes whose only purpose is amassing shiny things that clink.
I wish I could disagree with your assessment of the situation, but all evidence points towards its validity. The West has been conquered by the bankster cartel and the productivity of the populace has been leveraged as collateral to service the loans the banks issue to the governments that they need to maintain the illusion of solvency (which they are not). By definition the state, functioning on debt issued by creditors, is indeed operated as a business for the benefit of the banksters - any who would defy the banksters are systematically eliminated. Nail guns for everyone.
A vast percentage of the populace, at this point in time, has been so systematically mis-educated and mal-educated so as to be incapable of governing itself should a vacuum of "authority" suddenly arise. Many have become so degenerate in both cognitive and moral capacity that the absence of the state would be considered license to abandon any pretense of civilized society whatsoever. It has been engineered this way on purpose, the parasites need the host organisms to think the parasite is necessary, and they have done a damn good job by infecting almost everyone with a coercive collectivist belief system.