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Flashmag January 2019 www.flashmag.net
As long as sub Saharan Africa has not created academies worthy of the name, where elites are taught to defeat Western supremacy and self-determination, efforts to change the game will remain illusory.
In France the elite is generally recruited within the elitist institutions, the most famous of which is the ENA, which since 1945 has been the nest of the French elite. The "necessity" of such a school finds its origin in the Vichy Regime, which during the Nazi occupation inaugurated the takeover of power by the formalized technocracy. The Liberation of 1945 kept this "Nazi blessing" with the creation of the ENA. The influence of this school in the management of France, will give rise to the neologism, enarchy, which designates the absolute influence of the elites from this school on the state apparatus at all levels. Benefiting from a most effective network, the members of the Enarchy confiscate since the post-war, power of decisions at all levels. And critics against this gargantuan order are only logical.
Sectarianism favors the oligarchic endogamy of the French elites by co-opting former students in the public, parastatal, and private spheres. The connivance capitalism, with its corollary that is the abuse of social goods is the favorite sport of this elite who as in the Chinese Mandarin system, members of the elite (the "literati") spend more time looking for means to increase their influence and to fight each other only to forbid freedom and social justice to perpetuate themselves in the country.
In the United States, a country that originates from agriculture and slavery, access to higher education has always been a determining factor in the categorization of the populace. Knowledge, helps to distinguish by adding a surplus value, or a certain class to individuals.
Technological knowledge has created the most recent elite formed by the tech oligarchy, which developed in the age of computerization of the 1970s, and the Internet in the 90s. The biggest fortunes are recruited now in the cyber technology industry from Microsoft to Amazon, through Facebook or Google. The tech oligarchy is unique, since it is composed of the power of science and money. However, sociologists distinguish two large groups of elites in the United States, as in all the countries of the northern hemisphere. The state elite that forms the political class and the economic elite that is made up of finance and different industries magnates.
William Domhoff, in Who Rules America? demonstrates that both classes enjoy a homogeneity that is cemented by an identical education, but also by a common taste for property. The allegory of have and have not, is thus justified. The similarity of social origins, their mode of recruitment and their privileged relationships, which is often surrounded by a cloud of secrecy with the influence of secret societies from academic institutions, only adds to the sense of complicity that exists between these two major components of Western elite.
A complicity which is seen by the layman rightly or wrongly, as a conspiracy against the needy masses, uneducated and often penniless.
The crisis in the relations between the people and the elites, thus originates not only in the class struggle resulting from differences, for
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