RE: Training the Modern Slave- Intro to Part 1
Let me just share my favourite part of what you wrote today:
When it comes to domesticating a wild herd of these humans, one thing must be kept in mind; the individual human is highly intelligent, and cannot be controlled by any means, while a group of these same humans is only about as smart as a cow, and can be shown the way to pasture with as much as a handful of grass.
This is quite the profound statement you've got here. I can't seem to stop liking it more every time I read it.
I already knew that the many are capable of a higher form of tyranny than the one. A group of humans under the flag of a corporation or state lose certain human elements of their humanity. Call it an application of the bystander effect? A corporate board has not N empathy, where N is the number of members... but 1/N.
However, I had not really noticed that this formula for empathy was also applicable to intelligence and critical thought. I think it's true, though, and makes a lot of sense.
I think the plan there was, that if I shade in enough of the background, the hidden hand which is holding that clump of grass will be revealed; tis us, entrained and entranced in an agreed-upon decision to trod, as a group, across the pasture for one reason or another, by our own free will, misguided as it may be.
I'm not familiar with the bystander effect, and that formula is new to me as well, but I can see how, logically, the world would improve were empathy to become more abundant.