Talented, aggressive people will naturally want to be upwardly mobile.
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Your point about oligarchy is right, but to go further, the oligarchy system creates a ruling class that only circulates within itself, no new blood.
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The ruling class was originally fueled by the omnipotent Catholic church and its driver the European aristocracy and the Pope.
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The many Mexican revolutions were all eventually co-opted and corrupted and absorbed by the same ruling class.
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Education is the main upward path in America and that is very limited in Mexico.
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I recall in the late 80s that the small towns in the Yucatan would have mobile libraries that would park in some villages for a few days. I looked inside one and the books were new and unused , maybe a dozen people a day would go in.
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The Maya people didn’t speak Spanish or English. There was no point. I remember seeing the looks of hate when the priests came driving through town.
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Oppression by neglect.
Very true. Good post.
Mexico is a monument to the failure of it’s governmental operating system and all that created it. They literally should have been one of the wealthiest nations on earth.
I think that is part of the reason the Mexican government and the American ruling class freaks out at the idea of stopping illegal immigration. Can you imagine if one day all that escaping pressure was directed right at Mexico city?