Article: http://jamesfetzer.blogspot.ca/2012/08/twilight-of-psychopaths.html
Great article. But this analysis is missing one element, even though it was obliquely mentioned later in the article:
The prevailing recipe for civilization is simple:
1) Use lies and brainwashing to create an army of controlled, systematic mass murderers;
2) Use that army to enslave large numbers of people (i.e. seize control of their labour power and its fruits);
3) Use that slave labour power to improve the brainwashing process (by using the economic surplus to employ scribes, priests, and PR men). Then go back to step one and repeat the process.
Drugs. No modern civilization can produce the energy and food required to sustain millions of people in dense cities without the aid of pharmaceuticals. Modern governments rely on medicinal plants that grow in marginal soils, and whose products are easily-transported, in order to maintain both social control and a relatively productive population of citizens.
It's no happy coincidence that drugs also help to "brainwash" the populace, and to create armies which can then be sent into the provinces to guard valuable pharmaceutical crops. Why is this vital element not openly recognized? Is it, perhaps, as Hillary Clinton said, because
"there is just too much money in it"?