Pyramid, Tax Farm, Inbred Freaks

"Civilization" is really pretty vile. There's nominally utilitarian, useful and good aspects of it. People can work together to make their burden of surviving and thriving easier... but an inevitable byproduct of their cooperation is a massive parasite burrows into them and starts sucking away their time and energy. In recent centuries it's even coerced various stupid beliefs. In ancient times a fairly modest set of retarded beliefs were forced on people, like pretending a roman Emperor is a "god". In recent days, completely insane political beliefs of a tiny portion of the population are foisted on everyone else.

The pyramid system is a bad system--not only in its evil aspects, but in its perpetual dysfunction and waste. In recent years, for example, in the US all the productivity gains have gone into a handful of pockets. The wealth of the country has been strip mined via taxation and inflation. The people who stole the wealth didn't produce any of it.

The tax farm is part of the pyramid. It enables the government to engage in stupid and useless projects like wars. The United States has an 0-fer record in war since WWII, even though the country spends a huge portion of its GDP on the military. The "war" in Afghanistan failed pretty dramatically and cost trillions of dollars. It was an abject waste.

It seems like the pyramid system is run by a bunch of completely inbred freaks. It is hard to understand why normal people keep helping them out.