It’s interesting that for some reason, socialists, and even proto-socialists who existed before the word socialist was created, have always had a “1 in 10 ratio” as part of their schemes.
Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson imagined that civilization should end, and that mankind would live in isolated rural villages, kept in a primitive state by itinerant “Orphic Poets”, 1 in 10 elites, who would twist and distort history and knowledge in such a way to keep them ignorant and uncivilized. And that they would reward these Orphic Poets with their substance as a reward for keeping them primitive, out of gratitude.
Ironically his idea was almost identical to that, possibly independently created by Dave Foreman of Earth First!
The pre Civil War slavery apologist George Fitzhugh, in his book ‘Cannibals All!: or, slaves without masters’, wrote that slavery was a positive social good, for which slaves are the beneficiaries, having no other concerns than to obey their masters. As such, he advocated that 9 out of every 10 people in the world be enslaved. He also wrote that the 1 out of 10 elite masters should be praised for doing the “hard work” of ruling the slaves and keeping them enslaved.
And finally, lizard expert Dr. Eric R. Pianka, in his infamous speech before the Texas Academy of Science, proposed an airborne ebola virus to wipe out 90% of humanity as a good thing. All but two of his fellow “scientists” and graduate students gave him wild applause for this notion. People who might very well be able to bring his insane notion to reality through genetic engineering.
Of the other two, one informed the FBI, and the other agreed with the first that this was what Pianka had said. For his part, Pianka tap-danced and said that he was just talking in theory, not advocating, a blatant lie.
But always with this 1 in 10 idea. Nobility and peasantry.
In this age the ratio is 100k to 1. They want to keep all
the luxury of modern science and technology. That takes an
extensive work force. It seems more like a move to
Aldous Huxley “Brave New World”. Absolute, from test tube
to recycle plant, control of human life. With all the sex
and drugs the proletariat wants to keep them calm and
productive. You have more extensive knowledge of this
than I do. I’m just going on what little I know and what
I see today. Given the past record of communism, massive
starvation and genocide, there is little value in human
life other than social slavery. In America social slavery
is a progressive income tax. Forced to give 1/3 or more of
your fruits of hard labor to the government at the point of
a gun. When 100% isn’t enough they turn to full slavery.
The term “Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States” means or governments ability to tax it’s
citizens directly. That’s what backs our dollar. Our
governments ability to confiscate the collective and even
individual wealth of it’s citizens at any time. In other
words you own nothing not even yourself. All is property
of the state.
I fear that’s where we are now and were only one mass
genocide away from Dr. Eric R. Pianka utopia.
And prayer rugs...