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| In 2033 in the Land of Little Dictators (LLD) all thoughts and actions are driven by suspicion, mistrust, egoism, caginess, greed and dogmatic conviction of everything else excluding viewpoints, opinions and attitudes. Interactions / transactions – if existing at all - between domestic and/or foreign people, companies, universities are solely based on personal maximization of profit and assets. Ethical and moral aspects are off the cards and no-one takes care about the others not the mention “the other”. Values such as understanding, solidarity or bonds became alien concepts. Thus, exploitation – both, the environment and people – is the pillar in economy as well as the social order. An order which along the years installed a very strict border between the rich and the poor. You belong either to the ruling, money-making elite through your business or you are condemned to live in bitter poverty as a slave for the rich. | In 2033 in the Land of Little Dictators (LLD) all thoughts and actions are driven by suspicion, mistrust, egoism, caginess, greed and dogmatic convictions that exclude all other possible viewpoints, opinions and attitudes. Interactions and transactions – if existing at all – between local or foreign people, companies, or universities are based solely on maximisation of personal profit and assets. Ethical and moral dimensions are off the cards and no one considers others, not the mention “the other.” Values such as understanding, solidarity or fellowship are alien concepts. Exploitation of both the environment and other people is thus the central pillar of the economy as well as the social order – an order which has developed very rigid boundaries between rich and poor. You belong either to the ruling, money-making elite through your business or you are condemned to live in bitter poverty as a slave to the rich. |
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| This economic / social order became a highly fertile ground for fears. The poor need to keep frightened to make sure, they serve the rich and the rich need to fear the loss of their supremacy. Thus we find a highly flexible and voluminous market of/with fears in LLD. A whole army of people work to maintain and manage fears. Fears need to be invented, designed, sowed, promptly updated if they become less terrifying and replaced if single of them become irrelevant. | This socioeconomic order has become a highly fertile ground for fear. The poor need to keep frightened to make sure, they serve the rich and the rich need to fear the loss of their supremacy. Thus we find a highly flexible and voluminous market of/with fears in LLD. A whole army of people work to maintain and manage fears. Fears need to be invented, designed, sowed, promptly updated if they become less terrifying and replaced if single of them become irrelevant. |
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| This widespread “fear-management” has established structures as well as mindsets which dominate the entity of the LLD. Firstly we see an unrestricted growth of an insurance industry which pretends that just everything someone fears to lose, to become worthless or to be destroyed can be covered through an insurance declaration. Especially in a culture, which maintains a highly unbalanced social structure you always have a rather high amount of people who try to keep their goods (no matter if tangible or intangible, no matter even if they are valuable or protectable for real) insured as effectively as possible, which again, assures a hand full of people loads of money. | This widespread “fear-management” has established structures as well as mindsets which dominate the entity of the LLD. Firstly we see an unrestricted growth of an insurance industry which pretends that just everything someone fears to lose, to become worthless or to be destroyed can be covered through an insurance declaration. Especially in a culture, which maintains a highly unbalanced social structure you always have a rather high amount of people who try to keep their goods (no matter if tangible or intangible, no matter even if they are valuable or protectable for real) insured as effectively as possible, which again, assures a hand full of people loads of money. |
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