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Chris Hedges say how the oligarchs don't care about society as they are not really part of it. Educated in the top schools and universities because their parents can buy them in, so they don't care about anyone else's education. They have their own private doctors and the best health insurance, so they see no need why society should provide health care for anyone else. They never use public transport. They have their own acres of private grounds, so don't care about public parks. They pretend to be patriots, but keep their families out of the military. They don't care about the environment because if the oceans rise, or it gets too hot, or too cold, or too polluted then they can just move to somewhere else. All the great civilisations failed because of oligarchy rule. KV Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges say how the oligarchs don't care about society as they are not really part of it. Educated in the top schools and universities because their parents can buy them in, so they don't care about anyone else's education. They have their own private doctors and the best health insurance, so they see no need why society should provide health care for anyone else. They never use public transport. They have their own acres of private grounds, so don't care about public parks. They pretend to be patriots, but keep their families out of the military. They don't care about the environment because if the oceans rise, or it gets too hot, or too cold, or too polluted then they can just move to somewhere else. All the great civilisations failed because of oligarchy rule. KV Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges say how the oligarchs don't care about society as they are not really part of it. Educated in the top schools and universities because their parents can buy them in, so they don't care about anyone else's education. They have their own private doctors and the best health insurance, so they see no need why society should provide health care for anyone else. They never use public transport. They have their own acres of private grounds, so don't care about public parks. They pretend to be patriots, but keep their families out of the military. They don't care about the environment because if the oceans rise, or it gets too hot, or too cold, or too polluted then they can just move to somewhere else. All the great civilisations failed because of oligarchy rule. KV
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Oligarchic rule, as Aristotle pointed out, is a deviant form of government. Oligarchs care nothing for competency, intelligence, honesty, rationality, self-sacrifice or the common good. They pervert, deform and dismantle systems of power to serve their immediate interests, squandering the future for short-term personal gain. “The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments that rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one, of the few or of the many, are perversions,” Aristotle wrote. The classicist Peter L.P. Simpson calls these perversions the “sophistry of oligarchs,” meaning that once oligarchs take power, rational, prudent and thoughtful responses to social, economic and political problems are ignored to feed insatiable greed. The late stage of every civilization is characterized by the sophistry of oligarchs, who ravage the decaying carcass of the state.
These deviant forms of government are defined by common characteristics, most of which Aristotle understood. Oligarchs use power and ruling structures solely for personal advancement.
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