First of all, I
take oligarchy simply to mean rule and influence of a few over others. For simplicity’s sake, currently I take it to
encompass four major areas, political oligarchy, economic oligarchy, academic
oligarchy and media oligarchy. The four
do not necessarily reside in the same group, though invariably these vested interests
are in close cooperation and share common interests. And are deeply bound by affinity and unanimity
of anointed goals and ideologies.
With this kind of
generalized premise, we find this unholy situation in most parts of the globe,
however shallow or deep in their stages of development certain places are.
In their numbers,
we can identify and sort the many-flavored elitist groups that hold collective power
and sway in the realm of business and government, and the polity. They define their respective turf, enhance and
fortify them, and wage battles over each other when threatening moves are made
over their defined spheres of rule.
When certain
members of one particular group are eliminated or curtailed, others take their
place. The powerless, non-minded and disjointed
majority are left as awed spectators to observe and take sides to get their
yeoman share of the crumbs thrown around.
They curry favors from these masters, unable to marshal forces and
resources to fend for or survive on their own.
Sometimes they follow or are led blindly, fed with convoluted narratives
that when exposed are divorced from realities and deleterious to their own
common interests.
And this is
basically how we find the world today since as far as memory allows. And the cycle goes on and on, and unbroken.
