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The Gambit of Power and Control in Human

Deception – Part 2
By Randy Gonzalez
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The Gambit of Power and Control in Human Deception – Part 2

By Randy Gonzalez

As the devolution continues, daily occurrences around the U.S. and the rest of the
world, offer evidence of the gambit of power and control in human deception. A
continuing process of human regression in the imbalance of social equity, the few who
manipulate the resources manage to exert influence on those of lesser means. Recently, a
prominent business magazine known for reporting on wealth and power within business
and government circles stated that 1% own more than 50% of earthly wealth. The
continued decline of reasonable materiality does not paint a positive picture.
Accordingly, there are associated indicators that little more than 100,000 people have
net worth in excess of $50 million. By staggering contrast, at the bottom of this human
resources pyramid, is the 71% who have less than $10,000. From there, the income
disparity becomes gloomy, as poorer people experience income losses, and richer ones
show income increases. Another study reported in a UK news service, that less than 400
of the richest people possess more than 50% of the poorest people.
Although there are noble examples of charitable giving by a few in the upper echelons
of wealth, recent studies tend show a decreasing trend. Some analysts suggest that poorer
persons, by comparison to the wealthy based on percentage of income, are giving more in
benevolent contributions. Naturally, there are arguments on both sides of income
inequality issues. Yet, what are the implications for humankind? Aside from the abject
realities, the probabilities for continued social degradation do not offer a positive future
for the human race. Instead, the decline of the species invites eventual extinction.
The scope of this global disproportion gambit represents one aspect of diverse
elements that foster selfishly gluttonous behaviors. By doing so willingly, people
perpetrated the misuse of planetary resources. By various means of exploitation,
including people victimizing people, within 100 hundred years earth could become
uninhabitable. While techno innovations by a few might put off short-term calamity, in
the end it may be too late. From corporate and government corruption, to environmental
destruction, terrorism and warfare, the future looks dismal. Long forgotten are the
historic admonitions for wisdom, compassion and other courageous qualities.
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As the “imperial forces” decree, as might be depicted in science fiction stories, the
oppressed accept their tyranny. With grumbling acquiesce, or pretentious naiveté, as well
as groveling enslavement, the disingenuous perpetrations grow increasingly dystopic. For
those in power, in the upper echelons of wealth, the oligarchies foster collusive gambits
that possess a many faceted expressions. From the illusions of modern education in the
halls of academia, to the blathering campaigning of career politicians, the superficiality of
social discourse slides into the regressive oblivion for which extinction looms near.
With smug piety and callous reactionary entrenchment, emotional reactivity labors to
circumvent good intentions toward higher insight and wiser pursuits. Arguments in
contemporary engagements to promote the general welfare to loftier ascension run the
gamut of emotion-laden contradictions. The promotion of stupidity over wisdom, by a
firestorm of hasty generalization, foolish anecdote and lazy conjecture, disturbs the
complex process of elevating a society toward enlightenment.
Brave creative writers have lamented of recent date, the degenerative indifference
frequently committed against bold attempts to reason and make rational societal
advancement. Except for a small percentage of exceptionally creative and inventive
people, the vast majority prefer diverse states of their self-imposed devolution. In
business, higher education, public service and other human interactivity, the diminishing
value of fearlessly enlightened leadership suffers a similar fate. Leaders are disappearing
and a selfish sense of “anti-thinking” perpetrates divisiveness.
In a society quickly regressing to primal states of ancient reactivity versus intellectual
preeminence, some have concluded leadership is exceptionally rare. Many are challenged
to identify or otherwise name a public office holder that exhibits extraordinary capacities
for leading in an increasingly dangerous world. A regressed collective of tyrannical
“tolerance” for the arrogance of intolerance to others fosters a dishonest climate of
political correctness. Today for instance, it does not take much to unnerve or otherwise
terrorize a community, a city, at state, or the entire country.
In the aftermath of a horrific event, multitudes easily clamor for government assures
of protective subservience. A “lone gunman”, a terrorist with a bomb, or a disgruntled
employee can have large numbers of citizens willing to sacrifice liberty for an illusion of
personal security. Convenient scapegoats are all too easy to conjure.
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For anti-thinking, steeped in the myth and magic of lazy thinking and foolish
conjecture, the many acquiesce to the numbing cerebral maladies of mass-market
deception. Societies get what they want by consequence of greedy selfishness and
slothful effort. For the majority, rather than a higher sense of skeptical inquiry,
sanctioned by rational application of methodical analysis, and the integrity of critical
thinking, honest discourse and enlightenment demands too much responsibility.
Sinister politicians sell their “snake oil” and perpetrate with willing accomplices the
condescending tones of communal regression. Feeling good on an immature and juvenile
basis, is often better that knowing what is good and morally correct. Emotional reactivity,
whether presumed “intelligent” or not, claims less cumbersome pursuits of illusion and
belief, absent the primacy of evidence. People fill in the “blank spaces” in the areas of
doubt, in order to obtain a simplistic explanation, and achieve a comforting set of
consistent patterns. As a result, belief is anything that seems to make sense.
Yet, for the human species given little change over thousands of years, not much
seems to make sense. More often than not, there is an instant appeal to alleged authority,
as in product promotions, the political campaign ad, and the questionable academic
“experiment” and so on. So-called public interest surveys, whatever the subject, do not
say much, prove little and solve nothing. At the same moment, ghosts, goblins and little
green men, become scapegoats for human immaturity.
Corporate and government contrivances, not all of course, but many, promote every
weakness to make us feel good, so we avoid things unseen. For a time, and still to some
extent, UFO’s were modern day replacements for “demonic forces” meddling in human
affairs. As superstitions mount upon endless flirtations with the supernatural, and a battle
cry calls out to one god to beat another, common sense takes flight. As it turns out, the
aliens have to compete with demons for primacy of foolish conjecture.
Yet, the foolhardy attempts of pretending a “civilized” culture continue to devolve
with ridiculous silliness of online video game characters. Chasing the animated graphics
of sinister marketers, the “couch potato” commandoes peddle their corpulent babble for
the justification of less enlightened culture. A now another competitor vies for the
satiations of primal fears. The rise of the zombies competes for center stage. With the
advent of the “z-generation”, an offshoot of the millennials, anti-thinking abounds.
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Critical analysis, self-evolving and mature insight, based on empirical evidence, and
the efficacy of real-world experiences, wane and diminish across a broad spectrum of
society. Instead, the contrary is more certain for the majority. Rather than a higher sense
of skeptical inquiry, sanctioned by rational applications of methodical analysis, critical
thinking suffers significant cross-cultural regression. Extraordinary bias by emotion-
laden negativism intentionally clouds logical responsiveness.
Condescending fallacies of inference perpetrate selfish forms of erroneous and
exaggerated discourse. Often, such interpersonal conflict devolves to an ever-expanding
divisiveness. As such, “anti-thinking”, as opposed to productive pro-social thinking,
purposefully infiltrates the diversity of socio-economic and political interactivity.
Whether presumed “intelligent discourse” or not, strenuous efforts for deeper spheres of
understanding, give way to claims less cumbersome, and pursuits of illusion and
supernatural beliefs. Such antics pursue the absence for the primacy of evidence.
In general, for the sake of subjective validation and immediate gratification, people fill
in the “blank spaces” in areas of doubt. To the point of the gambit, to flex the nexus of
power and control, certain segments of society desire the masses to prefer a simplistic
explanation to everything. Analyses that are more complex might expose the “men
behind the curtain” and the corruption that exists. To achieve a comforting set of
consistent patterns, with easy trouble free explanation, ensures a false sense of happiness.
Every story has a happy conclusion so that many people feel good about believe
anything. The mass marketing of feel good things drives consumption.
A vast amount of nonsense passes as reality by which fictions are cleverly marketed as
fact. Fact is conveniently replaced by fiction. In perpetration, minions carry out the
deceptions fooled by inconsistent sound bites, aided by media complicities. In-depth
research and analysis through application of rigorous investigative discovery usually does
not happen. Instead, information gathering for data analysis is frequently limited to
alleged “experts”, which is mostly opinion and an illicit appeal to questionable authority.
Social media and infotainment networks and news media superficiality foster the
disinformation. In the modern equivalent of slavery, within the framework of global
economic and political systems, complicity finds a variety of conforming collusions. Of
that, confirmation bias hastens the deterioration of evidentiary validation.
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Enslavement of indebtedness to one form of willful obligation or another characterizes

a species bent on its extinction. Willingly with malevolent intentions, people deceive
themselves for the perpetration of their selfishness, then set about to betray others. As a
deteriorating consequence, the human species does not change is exceptionally
productive ways. A glimpse of the world and the associated social conditions speaks
loudly to that issue. Stupidity reigns supreme for the vast majority. Clever deceit behind
masks of advertising conceals the contrivances of power and control. For the sake of
“manufactured consent”, from corporate salesmanship to political corruption, the elites of
moneyed interests seek to maintain a self-serving status quo at any cost.
From a humanistic perspective, not all seek the perpetuation of the gambit of power
and control in human deception. There are always exceptions to every claim of a
generality. In fact, there are valiant endeavors by the brave few who take the risks to rise
above the illicit collusions of failing economic, political and social systems. Regardless,
and more often than not, others prefer sinister and devious inclinations. From a consumer
perspective, enslavement comes in the form of an appeal to alleged “authority”.
Self-gratification arrives comfortably and easily by the testimonial imperative of a
celebrity. In a devolving culture, that “worships” the guru of “cultic” inclinations, the rich
and famous, the public official, or the religious icon, downfall is not far behind. When a
celebrity speaks, typically a so-called “movie star”, many needy people, news pundits,
spin specialists get giddy and dizzy to listen intently. For the worshipers of “post-modern
culture” the cultic desire is to believe in the symbiotic satiation by vicarious adoration.
Why question the fiction, when such gratifies better than the reality of the facts? It
does not matter such hearsay is not truly expert, but merely a simplistic and mostly
uninformed opinion. Which begs the second question. Why would anyone accept at face
value unsubstantiated conjecture from someone who makes a lot of money trying to
remember one-liners for a make-believe movie scene? Mainly, the arrogance comes from
celebrity status, like many politicians, and the power of projecting fictitious imagery of
stage and screen. And, part of the answer is that it appeals to emotion and not effective
research and critical analysis. Another part is that the bias reinforces subjective validation
in cognitive bias to perpetuate a false sense of security. With trouble-free answers, most
feel comfortable and assured in their safe mediocrity.
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Modern day slavery runs a gambit from financial indebtedness to the degradations of
actual psychological and physical exploitation. From mass marketing schemes to
consume more and conserve less, to tortuous inflictions of human trafficking, the
stratagems of deception and trickery manifest in diverse forms. Between fake news,
ideological extremes that bring harm to others, social disruptions, and malicious cyber
invasions that threaten public safety, the human species hastens its self-destruction.
Illicit appeals to so called “expert opinion”, or alleged “celebrity authority”, as in
product promotion, political campaign ads, or social commentary frequently fall short on
the sufficiency of evidence. Usually, these kinds of things say nothing and solve nothing.
Along with the superficiality of “talk show boasting” comes the pretentious psychobabble
of some theoretical construct that claims to be scientific. Caution is always warranted as
to any assertion regarding any research, study or experiment, until such matters can be
thoroughly analyzed and rigorously investigated.
Of significant pathology in American culture is the arrogance of stupidity, and the
dangerous concentration of wealth among an elite few. On the one hand, while many rush
to consume more and more, others, on the wealthier end of the spectrum, greedily feed
upon the gluttony. Idiotic behaviors flourish in the selfishness of self-indulgence, as
“magical thinking” masquerades as socio-political discourse. Facts, reality and rational
prosocial interactivity devolve to regressive counterproductive instigations.
Meanwhile, some historians who study complex societies point to the eventual
destruction and collapse of so-called “empires”. The life cycle of previous “kingdoms”
over the last 3,000 to 4,000 years has been surmised to be roughly 250 years. If so, that
puts the U.S. in the final stages of about 50 to 75 remaining years. Then what, does
America and maybe the rest of the world plunge into a dystopia? Apocalyptic
consequences follow in the wake of planetary disasters.
Perpetual unlimited consumption with exploitation of earthly resources, along with
extraordinary disparity between rich and poor, will not sustain a livable environment for
much longer. In the gambit of power and control by every means of clever human
deception, gluttony rules the day as consumption ravenously devours anything, so long as
profit can be maintained. Political cowardice aids and abets, with a failure of leadership,
hesitance and indecisiveness to insist upon serious problem solving efforts.
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Likewise, excessive consumerism colludes in the bloated gluttony to satiate an

oligarchic “corporate-state”, and foster as many illusions as possible. By deceptive means
in diverse forms, most people will accept the mythology of “manufactured” conformity.
Form ghost stories to haunted thinking, reaction, absent evidentiary substantiation,
replaces objective analysis. The deception is “reality” for a majority that believes in
“supernatural providence”, absent scientific sufficiency, and feels the majority ought to
move in a particular direction because those in authority say so.
From the “status quo” mythology, consumerism provides the basis by which
intentional misdirection can manipulate a majority of the population to willfully accept a
plethora of pseudoscientific claims. Freedom voluntarily surrenders to “magical thinking”
in the mysticism of immature flirtations. The morbidity of eventual demise masquerades
from the shadowy realms of “infotainment” manipulations. Celebrity stupidity, hiding
behind the pandering self-aggrandizement of simplistic sound bites, perpetuates the
immature arrogance of grievous fallacies of inference.
From these presumed lofty hallways of pretentious intellectualism, the myth, magic
and mayhem continue unabated by the reality. To some scientists, that is to say real hard-
core science, as opposed to “social science”, the final act of humankind could come in
100 years. While most were not looking for it, or paying attention to it, the presence of
the human species may have outlived its welcome on the planet. Regardless of decades of
conferences on this or that, the massive failure of global leadership is but one part of the
crumbling infrastructures of human intentions. The same old human problems plague the
planet, and will continue do so until the last gasp of human existence.
Meanwhile, some are gauging the probability of finality and focusing on two
dynamics that could bring about global disaster. One of those is a mass pandemic and the
other is resource depletion that invites natural disasters. For the former, either by
contrivance of nature or human manipulation, social collapse could ensue by way of
horrible “killer diseases”. For which, now, physiological immunity is becoming more of a
challenge for disease control mechanisms. Failure to anticipate, recognize, plan and
implement productive actions before calamity hastens the worst-case scenarios. While
conjecture alleges catastrophes that could befall humans, a significant element remains
the gambit of power and control in human deception.
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