I, Illuminatus: "The Enabling State"

As you may be aware in this series we work on the basis of the pretence that I am the King of the World and why I have caused certain social phenomena to have occured.

Recently we examined how the Enabling State created an underclass of "needy people" in order to provide meaningful work for people who would otherwise be employed in Bullshit Jobs, which provide no benefit to humanity as a whole.

An ever increasing number of "victims" seem to be proliferating; indeed "The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars" a book which like the "Bullshit Jobs" book referred to in that article, began as a scholarly work entitled Microaggression and Moral Cultures published in the journal Comparative Sociology in 2014.

Campbell and Manning argue that accusations of "microaggression slights" focus on unintentional slights, unlike civil rights, which focused on concrete injustices. They argue that the purpose of calling attention to microaggressions is less to elevate the status of offended victim. "When the victims publicize microaggressions,” wrote Campbell and Manning “they call attention to what they see as the deviant behavior of the offenders. In doing so,” they “also call attention to their own victimization.” They do this because it lowers “the offender’s moral status” and “raises the moral status of the victims.”

There simply are too many people in the herd, but since my success is measured in head of cattle it is important to keep them all from going mad.

By encouraging, by enabling, people to self-identify as victims I therefore allow other people to be "do-gooders", to find some meaning in their valueless existence as members of the herd.