For conspiracy buffs: 
An Anglo-American empire sounds pretty good to me. Can conspiracies be good?
Of course. But you were probably just being ironic and know this. That’s part of the problem with using ‘conspiracy theory’ as a pejorative term. I mean many nations revere (which is a pun for US citizens in this context) the conspiracy that created their nation. People got together, at least partially in secret, and overthrew, fought off, unified, etc…someone else.
I suppose there was some irony.
Conspiracy theories like this one seem to want to claim that if Wall St (or whoever) weren’t running the world, I’d be better off. But they never seem to say just how that would be so.
The idea is that once a small party monopolizes something, they make it unfair.
The idea is that for one to be super rich, many are made poor,
And for one to gain super political authority/influence, many will be exploited or made slaves.
that’s kindof the how, but I’ve got to go sign off of my computer.
See you later, we may be able to describe more about this.
Yeah, man, until they get off the see-saw, its all the same.
It’s Alex Jones. You don’t even have to know anything to know that this stuff is, in effect, made up of whole cloth.
Well you are conceding quite in the formulation here - at least as a thought experiment. I mean if Wall St. is running the world - which means that democracy is a facade, we do not have the dribble of individual power we think we have, etc. - then it certainly would be, to my mind, more likely that things would run fairly and ethically if 1) we knew this and 2) we worked against an oligarchy. We can’t be sure of this, but ‘not being sure’ is often the case when something new is going to be explored. IOW this criterion effectively stops all exploration of forms of power distribution which have not been tried. It does seem to me that a small number of people controlling things while pretending they are not and creating a facade of democracy is less likely to be ‘good’ than something actually democratic. I can come up with arguments why I think this is the case, but given that I think it has never happened yet on a nation level - at least not in nations I have lived in, including the US - I am, to be honest, drawing a conclusion intuitively. Seems worth a try however.
The reverse argument it seems to me is also based on intution…
A government run by a secret oligarchy is as likely to be as or more ethical than a truly democratic one.
This also, I would hope, fails your ‘not being sure’ criterion.
Given the two things not to be sure about, me personally, I go for the one with less secrets and greater distribution of power.
I do realize you have not conceded the existence of this secret oligarchy, but given how you worded it above, I thought it was fair to treat is as if you had.
I don’t think it’s much of a secret.
This crockumentary reveals such “secrets” as “The Federal Reserve controls the money supply in the US!”
No fucking shit.
“I don’t get a vote on the Federal Reserve Board!”
Fuck me dead.
“Rich people have more power than I do!”
Fuck me running.
“Barack Obama made a couple of campaign proises that he probably won’t keep!”
Fuck.
I’m just picturing some skinny redneck watching this crap, sitting in his trailer in Alabam, swilling beer and shouting at YouTube, on his kid’s puter, and maybe, by part 6, shooting one of his dogs. But I know better.
