Masses vs. Elites: Battle to the Death
Channel: Sam Vaknin's Musings
Date: 2024-02-29

The masses feel that they are being held hostage and enslaved by rapacious, venal, and mendacious elites. 

They regard these elites and their values as avowed enemies: the West, governments, academia, mainstream media, science, the finance industry, the Jews.

The enemies of the elites are the friends of the masses: terrorists, antisemites, conspiracy theorists, Russia, China, populist authoritarians, the alt right. 

The masses abuse democracy and empowering technologies in order to destroy the established order. 

This is Jose Ortega y Gasset’s “Revolt of the Masses” which always results in ochlocracies and atrocities.