How does a godless oligarchy tighten its screws? It does not have to consciously conspire, although it's seminars for how to agglomerate
wealth do push that effect. All it needs is for its members to follow
some simple, common rules. Much as patterns emerge among murmuring
and flocking birds, simple oligarchic behaviors facilitate the emergence
of certain patterns of fundamental change. In effect, opportunity
combined with simple habits of individual greed generate algorithms, by which complex patterns of abuse occur against those who are less fortunate.

In the West, the emerging consequence is as follows:
- oligarchs make endowments to fund the advancement of profs who are bent towards spreading contrived and diversionary pretense among the masses;
- they contrive to "scientifically educate" the masses to look for their
moral instruction to the government (which is controlled by oligarchs), instead of to a reconciling spirit;
- they "scientifically" re-define fundaments of the social constitution to mean whatever they would mean in an Orwellian paradise;
- enserfers teach the masses to deploy government as their "liberator," to liberate themselves from the hang ups of traditional family responsibilities;
- oligarchs pretend to be concerned about the environment, in order to regulate, confine, and harness the activities of all workers;
- the attention of the masses is diverted from taxing oligarchic wealth and consumption to taxing middle class income;
- Oz-monkey agents are deployed far and wide to punish middle class evaders of an income tax code that no one can understand because it is not meant to be understandable, but only to be enforceable;
- the most wealthy learn to pretend to want to spread wealth, by increasing the number of welfare recipients, while blaming the reduction in size of per capita benefits on resisters among the middle class;
- the masses are encouraged to revile border protectors as isolationist nativists, while oligarchs import cheap labor in order to monopolize the labor market;
- the most wealthy acquire control over all media and institutions of mass persuasion;
- they acquire hedge control over all major currencies and stocks;
- they lie to assure the masses we are all in the same boat and all receiving the best care possible under the circumstances, which they blame would improve if only the middle class would stop interfering;
- they evade responsibility for the most incapable of losers by conditioning them to love being pimped into addiction, so they can be shunted aside to live under overpasses or to be satisfied with substandard care.