by achrilock
slovakia
An elite in Slovakia was shot. A few thoughts in rebuttal as elites throughout the West close ranks around the unjust violent order they control.
First, we do not live in democracies, so you can’t attack democracy by attacking those who claim to represent it. We live in a global oligarchy with provincial, fenced-off zones of control, where elites tell lies and make corrupt deals in petty competition with one another for power through silly popularity contests. These people do not represent our interests. They represent the oligarchs, everywhere in the world. It’s not politics. It’s business. It has nothing to do with people or progress.
Second, there are no such things as human rights, either as a consistent ethical or legal concept or as a matter of practical fact. There are things that humans do, and things that other humans will allow them to get away with, things humans can take and hold and things they can’t. Thousands of people are, intentionally and through simple neglect, murdered by the global oligarchy every day. Human life means nothing to them, only the preservation of their systems of authority.
Third, because each of us not born to or gifted with tremendous, unprecedented wealth is, in essence and in fact, a slave, we should shed no tears when one of the mighty is harmed. It is both gratifying on a personal level, a kind of social blessing for all to enjoy, and an important political lesson when our world is reminded that elites bleed just as easily as the rest of us 🦀
Finally, the person in question isn’t worth your tears: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/25/robert-fico-slovakia-veteran-populist-prime-minister