cannonfodder?
it makes sense that the most aggressive/ greedy/ powerkeen/ moneymad/ dirtiest fighters will rise to the top, where they are met by all the other hardest keenest thieves [nation leaders or owners], who will fight each other most intensely, & thus suffer the most attrition, danger - eg, the organised crime syndicates fighting each other to the death, the corporate infighting backstabbing etc, the kings fighting each other, & using the ppl for funds & cannonfodder, fomenting wars for profit
'when elephants fight, it is the grass [ie, the ppl] that suffers' [the elephants suffer too]
eg, the mafias & triads grow up out of the fighting among poverty & hardship, & thus become hardest fighters, & thus easily conquer the richer softer higher levels of society, as the sicilian mafia conquered america during the 20th C [the mafia is bigger than the 5 biggest corporatns together]
ditto the russian mafia, released into america by the fall of communsm
ditto sth amercn druglords
2006-10-25
15:25:08
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