All are error signals

Cults, ideologies, swindles and get-rich schemes are all the same. All are ERROR SIGNALS, warning lights, sharp pains. All are human culture’s way of telling the ruler that LIFE IS SHIT.

If a ruler wants to rule comfortably, with popular consent and very little trouble from radical movements, he needs to insure that ORDINARY PEOPLE CAN LIVE AN ORDINARY LIFE. Men should work and make enough money to support a family. Families shouldn’t have to worry about attacks from criminals and FBI-sponsored “terrorists” and tech tyrant monopolies.

Life always includes obstacles. We’re built to solve problems and get through obstacles. Government and business shouldn’t be ADDING more obstacles. Government should be stopping crime and breaking up monopolies and harnessing greedy plutocrats to serve public purposes.

Machiavelli made this point repeatedly in a reverse way, under the pretense that he was telling rulers how to be evil. When you read the whole book his purpose is clear. He’s telling rulers how to insure a long low-cost career, needing very little expensive help from secret police or FBI terror-generators or social media rumor-spreaders or officially employed cult leaders. Rulers can live a normal life when they insure that most people can live a normal life.

FDR recognized that Stalin and Hitler had accomplished the basic task of stopping crime and facilitating normal life. Both had followed the bad Mach path. FDR made the brilliant decision to follow the good Mach path, to remove the obstacles of crime and plutocrats without imposing harsh tyranny. And he did.