15/08/2020
REGULATION IS NOTHING BUT INSTITUTIONALIZED RESTRICTION WHICH IS THE BEDROCK OF OPPRESSION -
5 STEPS TO SUCCESSFUL OPPRESSION
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One of the most important tools in any oppressive regime including Regimes of Racism is the Act of RESTRICTION. What is REGULATION if not the INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF RESTRICTION.
The most important statistic to remember in Zambia that no one addresses is that in Zambia we have on 1 Employer for every 400 adults. 1 IN 400 KEEP That in mind because the Global average is 1 employer for every 35 adults. That is the number that needs to be fixed more than any other statistic.
Oppression has taken the form of Institutional Restriction today because it sounds less harmful but it's pretty much as destructive. The biggest mistake black people around the world made in the 1960s is that we thought racism ended when it actually just transitioned to its most sustainable form of ECONOMIC EXCLUSION.
Racism / Oppression worked in a very simple 5 step process.
Step 1 - PASS A SERIES OF LAWS restricting a group of People from Doing engaging in setting up of enterprises. Dilute the importance of that key factor by introducing restrictions on many other unimportant factors so that that they cannot see which is the source of their oppression. Introduce a voting system that they never had and exclude them from it and make them want it. Introduce an education system that they never had and make them want it. Creating So many variables it becomes too dynamic to see the important variable. E.G BLACKS CANNOT START RESTAURANT.
Step 2 - PRETEND TO LIFT the restrictions by replacing them with codes and rules which seem fair and UNIVERSAL but Aim the restrictions at the weaknesses of the mentioned specific groups you want to exclude after studying them. Deploy this code of exclusion through seemingly independent industrial regulatory authorities who are wired to act as the white blood cells of the body and eradicate all new entrants protecting the status quo. E.G Set starting requirements that are too expensive and time consuming for them to afford and shut down anyone who abrogates them. Set up a city inspection board to make it impossible for poor people to start and grow restaurants.
Step 3 - given them a plethora of social and political rights and access to aid and capital and have them chasing those while keeping economic rights unattainable through a rigid regulatory environment. Get Black people to believe that education, access to capital, and political success will guarantee them economic success and keep adding new ones to keep them running. Secretly the key simply starting a business from scratch and growing them.
Step 4 - Given them the Illusion of Freedom and Create a political class to take over the enforcement of restriction. To make this system of ECONOMIC EXCLUSION is sustainable, introduce a political class of black politicians and enrich them through politics the status quo political system, thus incentivizing them to sustain the economic exclusionary practice of regulation while serving as both a perpetual distraction and Effective Illusion of freedom without Economic Freedom. This system creates such a mess that Black people will never be able to figure out what to do and will always keep their eyes on the political system and never the business regulatory framework. The problems blacks face is we are focused on politics and political systems while maintaining and importing regulatory authorities which are the key tool of our poverty.
Step 5 - Introduce Aid and welfare to remove aspiration and replace it with comfort and confinement. Simultaneously there has been the introduction of aide and welfare that systematically incentivise black people to stay away from business by offering them aide and support that they will lose if they get any form of economic independence.
Did it never occur to anyone that Institutional Economics that is the bedrock of regulation, became mainstream right around the time of the Black Freedom movements around the world [1930s - 1970s].
The thing about restriction is that if you restrict a person a group of people long enough using force there will come a time where they will restrict themselves without any force necessary because they will view those restrictions as a part of life without questioning their impact on society. Just like in Pavlov's Dog experiment.
The first mistake black people make when looking at systems of oppression is that we tend to think white people all went to some secret white person meeting and did this. The architects of these systems as with most systems are a select group of elites who train even the white masses to follow the system.
THERE IS A VERY SIMPLE SOLUTION ... BUT THAT'S FOR ANOTHER DAY LEST I BE ACCUSED OF BEING LONG WINDED 😂