Yes.
But don’t make the mistake of thinking they’re part of some conspiracy … an illuminati intent on establishing a new world order. There is no conspiracy.
The best thing you can read in order to understand how it works is Ben Elton’s first novel, Stark
Although he’s not a bad author, Elton is not a good writer: his stuff tends to read like a treatise rather than a novel. And, the later stuff, apart from The First Casualty (which is reasonably mature in style), is horribly repetitive to the point of actual word-for-word repetition in one or two of his novels. That said, however, his stuff is not without its merit and, albeit a bit sixth form/high school in its earnestness and tone, Stark is an important work in terms of giving flesh to the way the World of today works and I highly recommend it — just don’t, as I said, watch the made for TV miniseries (it completely undoes the message of the book).
When you’ve read it, you’ll understand my point here
The tl;dr version of which is
And, as long as the Cluster B disorders are empowered … by virtue of their ruthless imposition of the rules by which the rest of us find ourselves obliged to live … they will continue to impose those rules and we will continue to live in a world run by them.
Unfortunately, short of
- a worldwide education programme, teaching Psychology (not Psychoanalysis or Psychiatry) from a very young age, so that people learn what their significance is and how to recognise them for what they are
- some decidedly dubious measures whereby their influence is strictly curtailed
… I’m not really sure what the answer is.
