Divide and rule has always been a favoured tactic of those who inhabit vertical power structures. When a victim is being stripped of their personhood they are isolated from their history, their friends, their tribes.
And if they wish to assimilate into the managerial class a person must turn their backs on their own origins, their kin, even their close family.
They are taught to have contempt for their own people, scorning their local language as coarse, their own manners as uncouth, their culture as worthless and their pastimes as barbaric.
Managerial types are often dimly aware of what they have lost and are keen adherents of such things as synthetic folk music and synthetic football matches.
For it is a law of Hierarchy that not only is the oppressed deprived of their personhood but so is the oppressor.
The oppressor must not identify with the subject peoples. As they cannot identify with a certain race or region, they must identify with each other through consumer choice or, more particularly, through ideology.
Wherever there is a military bureaucratic complex there is morality. It is this morality that gives it's adherents a sense of superiority over the subject population. This morality defines them and it also defines the 'Other'.
It allows them to judge and to condemn.
It justifies the crimes committed against the subject population.
Often it does not matter what this morality consists of. It frequently changes with time and place, but the important thing is that there is a morality.
The morality may be that of the pagan Romans, or the muscular Christianity of the Victorians, or the Equality of the totalitarian age, or Nihilist Islamism but there must be a standard to conform to, a stick to beat both oppressor and oppressed.
The great hallmarks of the managerial class are these; subservience and conformity.
Morality is the mechanism by which the manager thinks, what should I think? what
should I do? how can I crush my neighbour?
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