Outing the Oligarchy(Volume II … January 2021 – December 2022)… a second collection of quotes, illustrations, memes andcommentaries on the past origins, current tendencies, andprobable future of our global, capitalist-imperialist worldorder – otherwise known as The Oligarchy via Scaughdtan (i)am publication1
NOTE: This work is Purpose-fully non-copyrighted, and may therefore be copied, reprinted, forwarded &/or gifted onward in whatever ways any of its readers deem fit. That having been said, the author would also like to remind anyone so doing that, just as these Truths have been given to all for free, so too should they be freely given onward to others – fully profitless to the giver; without any additional costs or conditions attached to the receiving thereof … Thank you.2
“If you’re trying to simply carry on while people around you are suffering and dying, then your society is not collapsing. It’s already fallen … Collapse does not require that you personally suffer or die right now. It means the collective is suffering and dying right now. Death is sometimes close, sometimes far away, but suffering (and indeed death) is always here; usually for someone else, but someday, randomly – and probablypretty damn soon, for you as well. I used to negatively judge those herds of gazelle when the lion just ate one of them alive and all the others just kept on going but, no, wehumans are just like that. That’s the real meaning to herd immunity. We’re fundamentally immune to giving a shit about others … Collapse is just a series of ordinary days in between extraordinary bullshit, most of it happening to someone else. That’s all it is … If you’re waiting for a moment where you’re like ‘Oh, this is it’, I’m telling you, it never comes. Nobody comes on TV and says ‘And now things are officially bad’. There’s no launch party for the decay and disassociation of society. It’s just a pileup of outrages and atrocities in between fun and friendships and weddings and wish-lists – perhaps all graced by an unusual amount of alcohol or entertainment … Today I assume you went to work. Bad news was everywhere, clogging up your social media, underpinning your conversations. Maybe it struck close to you. I’m sorry if it did. And yet even if it didn't, somewhere in your country (if not all over the world)a thousand people died. Somewhere a thousand families are grieving, and a thousand more join them every day. The pain doesn’t go away, it just becomes a furniture of bones, in a thousand thousand elsewhere homes … America has fallen and most of the rest of the world is falling with it. So you need to wake up – wake up and look up at the people you’re used to looking down upon – wake up and look up and then reach outa hand to those nearby in need … I'm trying to tell you something very important. I myself have lived through collapse, and you in America are already there. Until you understand this, you only have further to fall.” ~ via Indo Samarajiva 3
“We are hurtling in the direction of dystopia and Armageddon, and the powerful predators in the driver's seat have made it abundantly clear that they have no intention of swerving from our terrible trajectory. And we cannot use democracy to turn this shipaway from the impending iceberg because the 'democracy' we've been given is a fake – a mere child's car given to a toddler to play with, so they can pretend they're driving. Even direct revolutionary action is completely barred from us as long as we are being successfully propagandized into consenting to the status quo by the manipulations of mainstream media corporations and social media platforms … It's fascinating, really. Somehow, some way, we've managed to trick ourselves into a situation where the only way for us to avert extinction is to realize the potential that sages have been pointing to for millennia. We've managed to perfectly troll ourselves into a very real evolve-or-die time. As if guided by some strange, deep wisdom, we have walked ourselves into a situation where we are holding the knife in one hand and the incense in the other, vowing to kill ourselves if we cannot attain collective enlightenment by the time the incense burns out. And we didn't do this on purpose. We didn't do it because our egos found it to be a gratifying crisis to put ourselves in. We just wound up here, by some bizarre miracle. Something deep within us has put us in a position where we must either rise to our full potential as a species or go the way of the dinosaur. We are beginning to feel the burn of the incense, and rest assured that it will only get hotter andhotter as time goes by. Will we burn? Will we pop? Or will we wake up and move away from the flames? I don't know; we either will or we won't. But for the moment I can't help but stare in awe at humanity's crazy wisdom for getting itself into this change-or-perish mess.” ~ via Caitlin Johnstone4
An Introduction to what Follows…Oligarchy can be best defined as “a government or political infrastructure that is controlled by an elite few who rule over a suborned majority”, and an oligarchy is indeed the best description available* for the current political/economic system under which the vast majority of us live, and unfortunately under which the vast majority of us suffer. While not necessarily capitalist by nature, our current oligarchy has indeed fed well and fully on the capitalist economy that still spans the globe. And while not at all innately religious or racist, our currently entrenched oligarchy has indeed been commandeered by Christian and white nationalists alike to ensconce themselves in places of havoc-wreaking power throughout our world. It is this same systemic evil that this tome (and its potential successors) seeks toexpose and illuminate, not to inspire you the reader to dismantle the same (for indeed,once firmly established, there is no force – external or internal – that can hope to tear it asunder), but rather intends and hopes to inspire you to take the requisite measures to ensure the safety of yourselves and your loved ones, if not the continued viability of your own community. Oligarchies are powerfully wicked, no doubt, and they by nature inflict enormous harm on almost everyone over which they rule. And yet oligarchies are for that same reason highly unstable and abjectly unsustainable systems. Indeed, they are all doomed to devolve to a point where they stop oppressing systems abroad and begin cannibalizing themselves from within. Such an End's beginning was first noticed by yours truly back in 2016 (though that End's commencement was admittedly noticed by many others long before then), and the same has now progressed to the point where the self-immolation of The Oligarchy can already be seen glimmering on not so far horizon. It is unclear whetherwe have 10 years left or a 100 until that beautiful collapse comes to be, and yet the time is indeed now for as many of us as possible to not only awaken to The Oligarchy's presence, but to start actively preparing to survive (if not thrive) both during and after its imminent demise.Amen … Let it be so. Scaughdt (December 2025)*Back in 2013, political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University took an extraordinary 30-year data set and a small army of researchers and set out to determine whether America could still credibly call itself a democracy. As case studies, they used 1,800 policy proposals, tracking how they each made their way through the political system and whose interests were served by their respective outcomes. For those still believing in the viability of an American democracy, the results were devastating. Political outcomes overwhelmingly favored very wealthy people, corporations, and large business groups. The influence of ordinary citizens, meanwhile, was at a “nonsignificant, near-zero level.” America, they concluded, was not a democracy at all, but had become an oligarchy..5
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To walk down Wicked Lane …(01/11/2021)7
Another day to Remember …(01/18/2021)8
The very best Extremists …(01/20/2021)9
So many simple Solutions …(03/08/2021)10
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Yet another Pot & Kettle …(03/30/2021)12
So much more of all the very Same …(05/01/2021)13
To carry a brighter Flame …(05/13/2021)14
The next commission of Charlatans …(05/19/2021)15
To SEE the still Unseen …(05/20/2021)16
Good enough is never So …(05/29/2021)17
Finally, an ANSWER …(05/31/2021)18
A far more honest Analysis …(06/08/2021)19
Keeping on keeping Non …(07/01/2021)20
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Re-founding the Fathers …(07/04/2021)22
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All those fickle Flags …(07/04/2021)24
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To much prefer The Man …(07/04/2021)26
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A quite third 1st World …(07/04/2021)28
an America fully unmade …(07/04/2021)29
when Rights are weakened so wrong …(07/04/2021)30
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Still in-deed a Chance …(07/07/2021)32
To ever defend the Meek …(07/08/2021)33
To unify the Greens …(07/08/2021)34
A very real Radicalism …(07/10/2021)35
Sending them where they Belong …(07/11/2021)36
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Again the shaming of Kettles …(07/18/2021)38
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Calling out the Khanna …(07/19/2021)40
Will we never ever Learn? (07/18/2021)41
The only Reason we can't …(07/20/2021)42
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Time to trickle Out …(07/20/2021)44
The outing of Team Evil …(07/21/2021)45
Looking at it fairly …(07/29/2021)46
To vacate the Vacationers …(07/31/2021)47
A foundation so Dark …(08/01/2021)48
Something more depressing …(08/03/2021)49
Loitering my ass …(08/02/2021)50