My father lives in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero Mexico. I go there every year to visit. It's located on the coast about four hours away from Acapulco. Very beautiful spot. Last time I was down there, there was a drive by shooting on the road the connects to the weight-lifting gym I attended. I was there when it happened. It was a cartel related shooting according to the local papers. I've been thinking about the Mexican cartels recently, about how powerful they really are.
El Chapo Guzman is one of the most notorious Cartel bosses to date. He is a self-made billionaire. This guy makes Scarface seem like childs play.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The cartels are, obviously, seen as evil according to most people. But I don't see them that way. I, actually, admire how ruthless they are in their pursuit of power. They aren't restricted by arbitrary laws or slave-moralisms. They take what they want by force and pride themselves on how barbaric they kill their enemies. It doesn't get any more 'might is right' than that.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]I don't admire the pons of the cartel, e.g., the drug dealers, sicarios ( assassins ), watch-dogs, etc. They are mere puppets. I admire the top dogs, the bosses; that is where the true power is at. These types are of the same archetype as Napoleon, Nero, Khan, etc.
"What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!" - Conan
The cartels and governments are twin brothers; They both are after power and will use force if necessary. They even work together. It's no secret that Mexico is corrupted.
“Govenment is founded on property
Property is founded on conquest
Conquest is founded on power
All power is founded on brain and brawn.”
― Ragnar Redbeard, Might is Right – The Survival of the Fittest
I think both Redbeard and Nietzsche would be fond of the Cartels for the most part; the Mexican cartels are incarnations of the will to power. Nietzsche would, probably, be turned off by their hyper-hedonism, though. Redbeard would smile upon it.
The U.S. government spends so much money trying to defeat them. It's pathetic and futile. People will not stop taking drugs and the cartels will never cease to exist; too much demand for it. It would, probably, be better to legalize all drugs and then the cartels will start to lose chunks of cash. But the cartels specialize in other things apart from trafficking narcotics, e.g., kidnappings, assassinations, pirating, black market goods, etc.
The Mexican cartels are a reminder to me of the way of nature: Might is Right!
"The Philosophy of Power and the Logic of Today
Might was Right when Caesar bled upon the stones of Rome,
Might was Right when Genghis led his hordes over Danube's foam,
And Might was Right when German troops poured down through Paris way,
It's the Gospel of the Ancient World and the Logic of Today.
Behind all Kings and Presidents - all government and law,
Are army-corps and canoneers to hold the world in awe.
And sword-strong races own the earth and ride the Conqueror's Car --
And liberty has never been won except by deeds of war.
What are the lords of horded gold - the silent Semite rings -
High pontiffs, priests and kings?
What are they but bold master-minds, best fitted for the fray
Who comprehend and vanquish by - the Logic of Today.
Cain's knotted club is scepter still - the "Right of Man" is fraud.
Christ's Ethics are for creeping things - true manhood smiles at "God".
For Might is Right when empires sink in storms of steel and flame;
And it is RIGHT when weakling breeds are hunted down like game.
Then what's the use of dreaming dreams, that each shall "get his own"
By forceless votes of meek-eyed thralls, who blindly sweat and moan?
No! A curse is on their cankered brains -- their very bones decay:
Go: Trace your fate in the Iron Game, it's the Logic of Today.
The strong must ever rule the weak, is grim Primordial Law.
On earth's broad racial threshing floor, the meek are beaten straw.
Then ride to power o'er foemen's neck - let NOTHING bar your way:
If you are FIT you'll Rule and Reign, is the Logic of Today.
You must prove you're Right by deeds of Might of splendor and reknown.
If need be, die on scaffold high in the morning's misty gray.
For "Liberty or Death" is still the Logic of Today.
Might was Right when Gideon led the "chosen" tribes of old.
And it was right when Titus burnt their temple roofed with gold:
And Might was Right from Bunker's Hill, to far Manilla Bay,
By land and flood it's writ in blood - the Gospel of Today.
"Put not your trust in princes" is a saying old and true
"Put not your hope in governments" translateth it anew.
All "Books of Law" and "Golden Rules" are fashioned to betray:
"The Survival of the Strongest" is the Gospel of Today.
Might was Right when Carthage flames lit up the Punic foam;
And when the naked steel of Gaul weighed down the spoil of Rome;
And Might was Right when Richmond fell - and at Thermopylae -
It's the logic of the Ancient World and the Gospel of Today.
Where pendant suns in millions swing around this whirling earth,
It's Might, It's Force that holds the brakes, and steers through Death and Birth:
Force governs all organic life, inspires all Right and Wrong.
It's natures plan to weed out man and TEST who are the strong." - Ragnar Redbeard
