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Many believe that the most important social divide in the West today is between the political left and right.

Much of the discourse in the corporate and independent media revolves around this battle, and many believe the outcome of this battle will have existential ramifications

for the future of the West.

But is this political conflict acting as a distraction from the true divide that shapes a

society, that being the age-old divide between the rulers and the ruled?

In this video we argue that the power disparity between the ruling class and the

citizenry has reached such pathological levels that a form of slavery is emerging. This slavery is

fueled by a ruling class that suffers from a pathological condition, Carl Jung called,

psychological inflation, and a citizenry that has become too weak and powerless

to resist the growing corporate and state takeover of almost every aspect of life.

Helplessness and weakness are the eternal experience and the eternal problem of mankind,

wrote Carl Jung.

Decades of research led the American psychologist Susan Fisk to conclude that men and women have five core social motives that are essential to psychological and social well-being.

These include the need to belong, the need to understand ourselves, other people, in the world around us, the need for

self-enhancement, which is the ability to cultivate a positive self-image, the need for trust,

whether it be trust in other people or in the effectiveness of social institutions, and finally

the need for control, autonomy, and competence over the course of our life. Most of these needs require

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