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The fact is that synarchism today, in its rage of fear, a self-feeding fear, is taking away everything that we have. There is nothing left that can be taken. If there were such a thing, the synarchist masters would have found it by now and taken it too. The fact is, synarchism owns us, lock, stock, and barrel. No doubts about that. Our entire existence as a society has been privatized into the hands of the maters of synarchism. We have become slaves to them. Tolkien has given a special name to a unique element of this slavery that is especially captivating. That name is Gollum.
The historic root of the Gollum process
Tolkien didn't go deep into details as to where the Gollum originated. He suggests that this pig of a process has been grown in ancient times, more ancient that Sauron himself. He is absolutely clear however, on one fact, that no matter what the appearances are, the Gollum isn't human.
In real terms, the Gollum appears to have come into the hands of synarchism almost at the very beginning of it. The breeding of the Gollum line of pigs was apparently suggested to Lord Shelburne by Adam Smith himself, during a long carriage ride from Edinburgh to London. He promptly received the commission to do that.
Adam's first pig was a synarchist version of free trade. Shelburne was pleased. He personally arranged the debut of this pig, which, under his direction as Prime Minister of Great Britain, was incorporated into the Paris Peace Treaty in which the British Empire graciously acknowledged the existence of the United States of America which it hadn't be able to destroy on the battle field.
Adam's pig nearly achieved its design objective. The British free trade bankrupted America. It had turned America into a dumping ground for imperial goods that prevented the industrial self-development of the new American nation and at the same time strangled it with debt. It even forced America to continue its former role as a slave labor contributor to the empire, as a supplier of cheap raw materials. That kind of process still goes on to the present day, under the original pig's name, free trade.
In real terms, synarchist free trade has nothing to do with trade. It is a process that originated in the hell holes of fear into which the most powerful man of the British Empire had once trapped himself. That fear still continues to rule the empire.
America defeated Adam's first pig. Alexander Hamilton recognized the free-trade pig for what it was, and killed it. But Adam had grown a second generation of his treacherous line. This too, had been commissioned by Shelburne during that carriage ride. Shelburne had commissioned a study of the causes of the fall of the Roman Empire, presumably with the idea of resurrecting it as a backup plan, in case that Adam's first pig failed to reach its goal. Adam's second pig, that came out this background, was his famous dictum of greed based economics.
This second pig was embraced with open arms in America. It wasn't just accepted. It was hailed as the brightest star in the heavens of economics. It was taught in the universities. It became the backbone of America's entire (synarchist) economic process, and it promptly destroyed it.
If Smith and Shelburne could see the now shining success of their once cherished pig, they would toast each other with champagne, and they would hang the Gollum poster in the front hall of their palaces. They might even put a golden frame around it as this would be due to a grand achievement, the grandest price of synarchism, a gem for their dark days.
The Gollum has been corrupted by poverty, but by its very nature it is a creature from the stalls of fear, of unbounded fear, a fear that is no longer visible today, which protects the Gollum's existence. Tolkien realized that the Gollum would never be killed by any of Saruman's forces. He could be tortured, but never be killed. Saruman would protect it as one of its own children.
Tolkien incorporated this background into the character of the Gollum. The result is a creature that is completely familiar with all the dark and foul places were few others would survive the lurking perils. The Gollum seems at home there. Thus, he becomes the ring-bearer's guide into the land of Mordor.
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