The horizontal state

The state (or whatever group is in power - the church, the aristocracy, intelligentsia, whatever coercive elite) have come to rule through divide and conquer. Society/humanity is not the vertical class struggle which we are presented with. Or rather it is in actuality but we slaves are distracted from the true hierarchy. The elite have created a horizontal struggle between state dependents and wage slaves. The elite have split the serfs and created two equally state dependent blocs. 'the poor' are kept dependent on 'social welfare'. As are the 'middle class' who are massively addicted to homeownerism and dependent on statist structures. These two blocs have been convinced that this is the complete picture. That the coercive state is a given and that it is a matter of having the bully on your side to dish out favours. Thus the historically ineffectual squabbling of politics. These two artificial classes blind to the existence of the true basis of their subjugation. There is no secretive conspiratorial ruling class. It is simply the result of a destructive pattern of human behaviour. Rule through violence. Whoever has the gun is the ruling elite. We all blindly exist under this threat, asking favours from the rulers, squabbling over who should have the gun without ever realising there is no need for the gun in the first place. To see the farm is to leave it. As soon as individuals realise that the cause of all this suffering is not a shadowy bunch of evil rulers but the idea of rule itself then they can be free. But the guys with the guns have created a system whereby the slaves are too busy arguing with each other to see the gun in the room. The falsehood of politics pits fake classes against each other (welfare dependent 'poor' vs homeownerist dependent wage slaves) to grab control of the gun and point it at the other. This has not been designed by concious intention as part of some evil conspiracy rather it is the natural development of the state as part of human history. Over hundreds, thousands even, of years those wielding coercive power have instinctively developed political, cultural and moral systems to protect that power. Thus no one can see the gun in the room of coercive politics or the farm of coercive economics or the cage bars of a society of slaves artificially pitted against one another.