37. About you: Chapter - Why does backstage power hide?(12)

 

Power always hides the obvious, the evident. An example is the hidden global backstage power, with its associated institutional systems, much like the European institutional systems, them often behaving as if only Western Europe existed, meanwhile treating the Eastern and Southern parts as their colonies. For the past couple of centuries Western Europe has been used to possess colonies, exploiting them in order to support their own selves, expressed in economic terms as maintaining growth. Anyone questioning the fact of their colonization, exploitation being the permitted world- view, has to face being made ridiculous, discredited by an influenced and servile media. Our own opinion is hidden, and considered as a primarily private matter, thus not a communal or mainstream thought, albeit would any of it fitting in, it ought to be incorporated in the ideology, but otherwise not.

Let us imagine such a dismal age, when two young lovers discuss the losses or gains of the BUX index, instead of their longing for each other or about their plans for a future family. Or take the head of a family, the father, who after having arrived home from work, sits by dinner, and instead of talking to his daughter about day’s events at school or about the afternoon flute lesson, starts speaking about the recently arrived number of immigrants and its relevant costs and problems of finding accommodation for them. A similar twist of a situation, when former army veterans – having fought together in  trenches- would be discussing the world market price development of a barrel of oil. Would we reach such a status quo, then our normality should be questioned, because our state is no more private, but global. Besides the individual’s private concerns, similarly hidden are the nations own interests.

However, not only the individuals, but the nations as well, have to represent and consider their own interests. Should they fail to do so, they confront and give up their own selves. In other words, a nation is waging a war against its own self. A perfect example is the chain of events of the 1990s, whereby in Central and Eastern Europe a political change has taken place. In Hungary the result was an open robbery called privatization. These course of events were made possible by actions of the ruling government of a given country, for instead of leading their nation a pre-planned plunder was set. The ways and means of plunder was widespread and diverse, i.e. open lies, role playing, appearance of profit hungry individuals, visual propaganda, as well as simple sale of assets of national interest.