Or ""divide and rule"; it just sounds more impressive when said in a dead language. This also illustrates how very long this strategy, employed by the ruling classes, has kept us fighting among each other already.
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This strategy has become so pervasive in our modern societies that we don't even seem to notice we're constantly being set up against our fellow citizens in any way shape or form possible. Weather it's race, sex, income, social status, political alliances, sexual orientation, religion... and so on, we're always being made aware of how we're different and how different we are. There seems to be no room in public discourse for what we have in common, to show how similar we actually are.
Divide and rule (from Latin divide et impera), or divide and conquer, in politics and sociology is gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into pieces that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy. The concept refers to a strategy that breaks up existing power structures, and especially prevents smaller power groups from linking up, causing rivalries and fomenting discord among the people. It was heavily used by British Empire in India and elsewhere.
source: Wikipedia
Forget about "...British Empire in India and elsewhere" in the above Wikipedia definition, and remember how old the saying actually is: this strategy is deployed everywhere and throughout history. But nowhere and at no time as sophisticated and pervasive as it is done now, with us. This is why capitalism is this strategy's favorite partner; everyone being everyone else's competitor, be it in the market of goods or in the labor market, is the ultimate division of what was once "the people." It's the perfect breeding ground for all the other exploited differences to thrive on.
Image by -Nicola- - source: Flickr
Another thing to think about is that this strategy of dividing and conquering, as stated in the Wikipedia definition, is used for "...breaking up larger concentrations of power..." POWER. That's something "they" have made us forget about. We, the people, are that larger power "they" are so afraid of. United for a common goal or against a common enemy, no one and nothing can stand against us. Regrettably, as stated in my post from three days ago, Common Good, we don't believe that we have anything in common anymore. It's about time we started remembering who we really are, that we're not each others competitors or enemies.
Thinking and writing about this has made me remember one of the greatest stand up comedians America, nay, the WORLD has ever known. George Carlin was a true master of speaking truth to power, and in his show Jammin' in New York he had this brilliant opening; he puts into words the reason I feel the urge in so many of my posts to stress everything that binds us together, as there's so much out there to stress what divides us;
George Carlin The Way of the Ruling Class
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