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I have to admit that I had to reflect for a long time before writing this short article. Because, despite having years and years of analysis, readings and studies, the undersigned, curator of this blog, He is a simple communicator. But also a curious of the things in the world. Among others, also of the structures that determine, They direct and hold the events and behaviors of the human flock, influencing their everyday life, culture and psychology (individual and social). Some of these structures can be immediately identified because they are exposed as such: politics, i averagethe university and school system, the economic system and businesses, organized religions. Others, however, are less. It is the so -called back office of power, the one that inspires the fantasies of dietrologists and conspiracy theorists. That, in reality, very often they are nothing more than people who spontaneously understand how the most important events that happen are not narrated in a completely transparent way. That there is an “unspoken” compared to what the world of information mainstream He can go to tell. Imagine more precisely what there is “other”, however, requires effort, study and preparation. For this reason, not everyone succeeds, sometimes slipping, in the clumsy attempt to give themselves the deepest explanations of the events, in the most imaginative and absurd arbitrariness. That of conspiracy, precisely.
One thing, however, that appears to be clear is that, to analyze the most complex events (wars and economic, social and political crises, to make some immediate examples) they serve different lenses. Different levels of analysis to penetrate the different steps and languages of power, which these facts makes them happen or which, in any case, is to govern them. A bit like when, at school, they taught us that, to understand Dante’s comedy, different levels of reading were necessary. Well, those who write here believe, without any claim of scientificity (for heaven’s sake), that these levels can be, in the contemporary world, three: political-economic, geopolitical-financial and, finally, metapolitical. The first two exist undeniably, the third is the result (if we want to define it) of an intuition, almost “pytagoric”. Which is essentially based on the intrinsic perfection of number three. On his existence I leave to those who read the faculty to express himself and, why not, to contest me.
The pyramid of power: the first level
The political-economic plan, what is the first step of our “pyramid” of global power, is also what can have penetrated, in their background, by most people, if only for the great availability of information in this regard, also available through the most authoritative and widespread newspapers. On this plan they move, as protagonists, politicians, entrepreneurs, trade unionists, representatives of trade associations and opinion movements. The planning of events, in this area, usually includes a short period (electoral deadlines, for example and as regards the parties) or medium (one or two operating budgets, is the case of companies). The memberships and rivalries of the different actors are (or, at least, appear) quite clear: there are right and left politicians, trade union leaders and captains of industry and so on. The prisoners of power, at this level, cloak their will to the power of ideals and visions, so that the people (workers and voters) is pushed to give them consent or, in any case, to justify their choices, often according to fans logic.
The pyramid of power: the second level
Going up of a step, there is the geopolitical-financial plan, that of the so-called “deep state”. Here they operate: commanders in chief of regional or with global projection, high military, diplomatic degrees, services of intelligencebankers, large lobbyists and manager of multinationals. To understand what happens, on this plan, a specific preparation is needed or, for the privileged, a more or less direct knowledge of its dynamics. The variations varied, depending on the scope: for geopolitics the periods are the medium or long term, for finance it goes from the short to the very short term (an example are the fierce and massive bearish speculations). In the geopolitical field, the memberships of the different actors can overlap with those of the first level (political): so it will be possible to see leader on the right to go hand in hand, by virtue of alliances made necessary by the acappering of energy resources or by geography, with leader left, against others leader right and left of other countries. The interactions between the different interlocutors, on this plan, have no idealistic connotation: it is pure will of power and pure hierarchy. Towards the outside, however and above all in the geopolitical field, wide use of the storytellingby covering the ambitions of moral values (export of democracy, human rights), patriotism (defense of one’s ethnic-linguistic minorities allocated in neighboring nations), religiosity (holy wars against the infidels).
The pyramid of power: the third (presumed) level
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In addition to this level, however, it is possible, for the “pythagorean” intuition mentioned above, to assume it there is another one. More occult. A metapolitical level. That is, a level that is literally beyond politics. But even beyond the economy, finance, culture, religion, science, technique, embracing all the branches of human activities, a bit like the rose placed at the center of the suggestive “round table” preserved in the Great Hall of the Winchester Castle (In the photo on the side, NDA) It is at the center of all the rays that they depart to her. It would be, if existing, of a substantially impenetrable level, where the information would be the prerogative of very small circles. Determining those who could move inside is impossible (and moreover a mere hypothesis is formulating). It could be social engineers for whom economic power, now, having abundantly, would have only an instrumental interest. The aim, in this case, would inevitably be the domain, the management of human mass, with almost ethological curiosity. For this reason, planning should necessarily be long or very long period. Between this level and the previous one the relationship could be exemplified, with a cinematographic quote, by the relationship between Darth Vader (custodian of the secrets of the Sith lords) and the generals of the evil empire in the saga of Star Wars. Or, again, resorting to the literary universe of Tolkien, to the relationship between Sauron and the orcs. But, be careful, woe to be dragged into the idea that the super-poot of the earth are necessarily guided by evil purposes, which are only and exclusively “black enlightens”. The direction in which the human community seems to go, actually, could easily induce this consideration. But, how fantasy works have taught us, where there are the Sith or a Sauron there are always also Jedi or a Gandalf. Or, if nothing else, it is better to hope for it.