From this perspective , two theses emerge , the first which is linked to the very exercise of political power in the West and to the capacity of Western democracies to provide appropriate responses to the management of city a airs . This implies that , the too frequent use or without clear justification of the state of emergency calls into question the capacity of the public authorities to fulfill their primary mission . The recourse to the state of emergency illustrates in this perspective , the inability to govern , and especially the ine ectiveness of the risk management policies put in place by the State . When you don ' t know how to have a frank and intelligent conversation then you hit . Whoever rules by force does not know how to govern , or rather wants to impose a type of society that goes against the aspirations of the people ; and this is the second hypothesis of governance by the state of emergency . However , the games are more complex . While in the Soviet Union there was a clear definition of what the governmental structure was , in the case of Western democracies often united under the label of the international community , things are not clearly defined . This disturbance does not also , reassure Western populations who are gradually discovering the leaden cover that Western governments are imposing on them . The system of oppression of individual freedoms in the West is very complex , as it is laced with a tangle of influence peddling , mafia interest , sectarian nepotism and others . However , its concise analysis suggests a structure which is controlled by the multinationals which are the real custodians of political power . In a kind of synarchy where the multinationals are kingmakers , it is logical that they organize , through their popular press organs like Facebook , Google , or Twitter , strategies of manipulation of public opinion , and of suppression of the way of thinking otherwise , by imposing censorship . Even if Facebook or Twitter are not court sworn in by citizens , the fact remains that these companies know de facto that they have since taken power , because on their own , they can artificially create economic crises , that can bring down governments .
The technological oligarchy with behemoths like Microsoft , Google , Apple or Amazon , Facebook , Twitter , has become far too strong to ignore its influence and continue to place it in the impartial innocence of clean business . History comes to the aid of the layman who wants to understand , with the example of Africa and its history of slavery and colonization . Whenever the West has created a new system of society like that of slavery or colonialism , it has always relied primarily on multinationals . It was private Western companies that began the slave trade . Similarly , for colonization where the state and these private companies formed two very homogeneous entities , one merging with the other . To defend colonial markets , or slave ports held by private companies , it was not uncommon , to see regular armies of the slave and colonizing powers wage war on entities that opposed these businesses . Thus , in Haiti there was a repression of the anti-slavery revolt by Napoleon ' s army . Napoleon who later will try to restore slavery . In China , during the Opium War , British forces forced the Chinese people to consume opium supplied by British multinationals . Ditto in Cameroon , where the German army bombed Douala to put an end to the state of sieges resulting from the anti-colonial revolt of local populations such as Makas , Malimbas , Batangas , Boulou or Bakweris , and others , who united against the colonial occupier . Also , Microsoft , Google , Amazon , Facebook or Twitter , are the facilitators , profiteers , slavers and colonialists of today , as were the companies , Woermann , Société sucrière des Antilles , Royal Bank of Scotland , Lloyds Bank , Bank of England ( BoE ) or the brewer Greene King , and many others which all benefited from slavery and colonization that they helped to implement . If the current situation seems less violent , while the system struggles to define itself clearly out of shame , and no doubt by fear of being discovered , it is no less true that the health emergency situation has helped to make the colossal fortune of the oligarchy technology with billionaires tripling their personal fortunes during the health crisis .
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