{"id":2286,"date":"2026-02-08T00:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:10:10","slug":"jeffrey-epstein-and-the-three-universal-mafia-principles-mafia-never-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/jeffrey-epstein-and-the-three-universal-mafia-principles-mafia-never-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Epstein and the Three Universal Mafia Principles Mafia never dies."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Three Principles of Mafia, according to Ugo Bardi<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. All large organizations tend to evolve into mafias<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. All mafias tend to generate emperors<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Mafia never dies<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    Let me start with a universal sociological principle that I just invented. It is\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0first principle of mafia,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0according to Ugo Bardi. It goes as, \u201c<\/span>All large organizations tend to evolve into mafias.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

    Read Ugo Bardis’s full blog post here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Some of his ideas remind me of:<\/p>\n

    Robert Michels\u00a0 – Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911). Michels, a German-Italian sociologist, argued that all large organizations , including democratic parties and unions, inevitably develop elite leadership structures, a theory he called the \u201cIron Law of Oligarchy.\u201d His central claim is that even systems founded on democratic ideals tend over time to concentrate power in the hands of a few leaders, thereby undermining true popular control. While he did not literally state that democracy always becomes dictatorship, his work suggests that modern democracies structurally drift toward oligarchy and authoritarian tendencies.<\/p>\n

    Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchial Tendencies of Modern Democracy<\/a> by Robert Michels<\/p>\n

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    The Three Principles of Mafia, according to Ugo Bardi All large organizations tend to evolve into mafias All mafias tend to generate emperors Mafia never dies Let me start with a universal sociological principle that I just invented. It is\u00a0the\u00a0first principle of mafia,\u00a0according to Ugo Bardi. It goes as, \u201cAll large organizations tend to evolve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backup-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expatcircle.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}