The Difference Between the Leaders and the Masses

Hegel says that the curse of irresistible progress is irresistible regression. And with this homogenization comes a relative degree of miopia, where we only look upon the present and don't actually think far ahead. But to better illustrate this kind of distinction between thebourgeois thenothe capitalist policy makeor whatever verses the workers, that is, the masses, they use a story from odysseus in which his men tie him to the mast so he can still hear the song of the sirens. Meanwhile, all the crew are expected to fill in their ears with whax,. so that they cannot hear the people singing or the sirens singing. They have their senses turned