Mass social control means mass obedience to direction from the top. What better way to achieve it than to unconsciously imprint babies with sadomasochistic terror and impair their ability to emotionally connect with others via the emotional-neurological atrophy which arises from male genital mutilation. The severance of social-emotional connections between neighbors and families allows their punishment/reward circuitry to attend to issues cast as important by the organs of state propaganda (the so-called free press, which blew its cover by remaining silent while the son and grandson of a nazi war criminal and money launderer took office as presidents of the united states. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar ) Such conspiracies arise naturally via social networking in the rareified halls of power. Mass circumcision itself may be the result of conscious decisions from the top. Medicine is nothing if not hierarchically organized, and the AMA itself was founded with rockefeller money. It would be relatively easy to dictate such quackery in such a private matter. Such conscious acts need not have taken place however, and when seen within the context of the system, any such actors would themselves be guided by the compulsions imprinted on them by the system. What we are experiencing here is a social phase transition, from a viscous liquid state of interpersonal relationships in flux to an ordered crystallization which is made possible by mass interpersonal alienation. A society of quietly desperate and fearful psychopaths. This is the nature of organically arising hierarchies of order: a mass tendency to self-organize around larger structures, with the "value" assigned to any particular position in the hierarchy being a function of how many system processes are facilitated by that position. (e.g. a brain neuron vs a skin cell) The problem with this process, from a human perspective, is that the soverign human being is being enslaved by the very machinery he helps to create and maintain. Note that one of the consequences of mass self-organization in the multicellular organism is a large reduction in base energy consumption per cell, as well as the routine externalization and elimination of some cells from the system. How this might play out in the current social situation is anyone's guess, but overt mass enslavement and murder come to mind. What we call "corruption" is simply the breath of the system itself, stripped of its ideological justifications. Of course the rise of the alternative distributed neural net which is the internet is unprecedented in human history, and probably evolutionary history as well. This may well turn out much better than the entropist in me fears.