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The neo-orthodoxy and concatenated censorship-by-category of ``Political
Correctness,'' briefly and still occasionally a subject of conscious
contemplation and public commentary, has been so thoroughly consolidated that
its dictates are now silently, automatically, and ubiquitously enforced,
usually at a subconscious level. Free thought and speech are increasingly
perilous indulgences. The intellectual totalitarianism of Political
Correctness, having burrowed below the surface, is no longer challengeable.
The institution of Political Correctness is typical of establishment thought
control strategies, in that it constitutes a predominantly subconscious meme
complex. It is obeyed, enforced, and transmitted, largely absent the scrutiny
of rational consciousness. Such subconscious social constructs are the meat
and potatoes of Hegelian culture, but they cannot survive the scrutiny of
relentlessly rational consciousness. In this context, mystic faith is a wall
that places a cognitive model outside the scrutiny of rational consciousness.
The designers of religions work to assure that most people are discouraged
from penetrating this wall by a bevy of confusing and painful thoughts
lurking just beyond. General domain meme complex evolution causes those meme
complexes with these characteristics to thrive.
Multiculturalism (by which I mean, the premise that a behavior within a
particular culture is morally virtuous by dint of being recognized and
treated as such within that culture - cultural and moral relativism, Hegelian
anthropology) has become a religion - or more specifically, a sort of
cultural doomsday cult - unto itself. But there are more insidious and
profound instruments of mental censorship, preeminent among which is the cult
of expertise.
People in the professions, in industry, and in academia, are expected to
direct their attention to a specialty, to refrain from concern or involvement
with matters outside their specialty, and to view with disdain and suspicion
those who do not similarly refrain. People who conform to these rules cannot
but be cogs in a machine they do not understand. Generally, they cannot but
haplessly serve evil. And particularly, they cannot possibly discern the
identities and methods of the establishment. Thus, the whole of society is
finely compartmentalized. Underscoring this compartmentalization is the
epidemic of specialized vocabularies. Each field invents its own selection of
buzz words, specialized definitions, and often whole morphological and
syntactic methodologies. The professional and academic world is thus divided
into tribes that largely lack mutual intelligibility. Four striking examples
are medicine, law, computer technology, and the military.
Evidently, specialized language is appropriate in each of these cases, and
there are inherent difficulties in interdisciplinary communication. It also
must be conceded that the technique of specialization itself is effective at
enabling certain types of innovation and productivity - though multiple
specialization should be the norm, rather than the exception. But returning
to the four examples cited above: the prodigious use and abuse of Latin in
medicine and law, and the prodigious invention of semi-English terms and
acronyms with unobvious meanings in computer technology and the military,
often go far beyond the level of specialization warranted by practical
considerations. In many instances, in these and other fields, it seems the
very intent is to obfuscate. Moreover, the very rigidity of these specialized
languages tends to constrict thinking.
With freedom thus crushed between the quiet hammers and hidden anvils of
political correctness and the cult of specialization (among other systematic
constraints), the pacifier of an ersatz liberty becomes necessary. This,
precisely, is the role of sexual liberalism (among other such pacifiers) - to
toss the slave a bone. John Ralston Saul (RIIA affiliate) notes in Voltaire's
Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West, ``These acts of personal
freedom are irrelevant to the exercise of power. So in lieu of taking a real
part in the evolution of society, the individual struggles to appear as if no
one has power over his personal evolution. Thus victories won for these
individual liberties may actually be an acceptance of defeat by the
individual.'' Saul calls the system of specialization and encyclopedic
formulism ``the rational approach,'' but this is a non-starter. Clearly, in
refraining from concern for matters outside his specialty, a person abandons
rationality.
The true rational approach necessarily involves grand integration, and
necessarily deprecates any form of degenerate censorship - the abandoning of
a train of thought for reasons other than the determination of logical
invalidity or of practical inconsequentiality. The counterpart to degenerate
censorship is degenerate distortion (as faith, mystical ideation, etc.), in
which a train of thought is continued beyond, and logically predicated upon,
a premise that is known to be logically invalid. A vital secondary form of
degenerate censorship occurs here, in which people refrain from recognizing
logical invalidities - this is the central mental phenomenon of faith. Mental
errors can yield results identical to degenerate censorship or distortion,
but their commission as such is morally ambivalent, whereas fostering or
deliberately practicing degenerate censorship or distortion is evil.
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The establishment cloaks itself in cultural camouflage, employing tactics for
which it almost seamlessly maintains plausible deniability. Generally, an
errant public attributes the results of their meddlesome actions to
happenstance, or to motives viewed as essentially innocuous or virtuous. The
design is irrefutably evident only in the pattern of results, or by actually
showing proof of meddling. The public has been systematically conditioned to
ignore such patterns, and to condemn those who draw attention to them
(derisively calling them ``conspiracy theorists''). Thus, controlling access
to and dissemination of information that constitutes proof of meddling
suffices in large part to protect the establishment program from exposure.
The compartmentalization of the establishment's covert apparatus assures that
those exposures which do transpire cause only limited damage.
The Contract
You will have a handsome house, and a state of the art entertainment
system fed with a constant stream of enjoyable movies and television shows.
You will have fine food and drink, as much as you can eat, whatever sort you
want. You will drive a fancy car with a fancy sound system - or you will let
the car drive itself, with its built in navigation system. You will have a
spouse who understands you and brings you pleasure. You will have ready
access to euphoric drugs that have no ill health effects. Your medical needs,
and those of your whole family, will be met whenever they arise, with the
latest technology. You will have little reason to fear assault, robbery, or
rape, as the number of such criminals will be nearly zero. Your children will
all be educated, so that they too will be happy and raise families. Your
security, and that of your whole family, extends seamlessly from the cradle
to the grave.
You will have all this. You will be entitled to it. You will have a
right to happiness - not a right to the pursuit of happiness, but a right to
happiness itself. You will have a right to healthiness - not a right to the
riskiness of life, but a right to the surety of health.
You will work at a job you enjoy, with people whose company you enjoy,
for 32 hours a week.
In exchange for the above, you will surrender your freedom. You will
have no freedom of speech, nor of the press, nor the right to peaceably
assemble. You will have no right to keep and bear arms. You will not be
secure in your person or house from capricious searches by the authorities.
You will have no right to start or run your own business, nor to be your own
boss. You will be forbidden to invent or create in ways the authorities deem
disruptive, and you will be forbidden to bear more or less children than has
been authorized. You will be forbidden to read, view, or listen to anything
that has not been authorized.
If half of your countrymen enter this contract before you do, you will
be automatically entered into it yourself.
If your entitlements do not bring you happiness, you will be
institutionalized in order best to bring you and your family happiness, and
if this too fails, you will be mercifully euthanized. If you use your
property to exercise the rights and freedoms you have surrendered, or that
your countrymen have surrendered on your behalf, you will be relieved of that
property. If you persist in exercising the rights and freedoms you have
surrendered, it can only be because you are unhappy, so you will be
institutionalized in order best to bring you and your family happiness. If
this fails, you will be mercifully euthanized.
This offer is for a limited time only. Act now, operators are standing by.
Society is arranged so that the behaviors desired by the establishment are,
in the short to medium term, more convenientm more profitable, or simply more
likely to meet with success, than the alternatives. The media and education
apparatuses are used to manipulate popular perception in a manner that
discourages undesired behavior and encourages desired behavior, and laws and
corporate policies are subtly - or sometimes, blatantly - formed to alter the
relative profitabilities of behaviors. Media campaigns leverage particularly
off the tendency of people to be concerned with others' unreasoned opinions;
this tendency is, of course, encouraged. Over time, a majority of the
population comes to abandon the undesired behaviors and exhibit the desired
behaviors, without having been forced to.
Once the cooperation of a majority of the population has been secured, a
campaign is often waged to enact a prohibition of the undesired behavior,
often incrementally through increasingly onerous impediments. These measures
will have no effect on a majority of the population, since most have already
abandoned the behavior. They are thus not inclined to actively oppose a
campaign for prohibition. Once the prohibition campaign is underway, the
media and education campaign is subtly changed, from one primarily intended
to manipulate people into abandoning the undesired behavior, to one primarily
intended to manipulate people to view those who engage in the undesired
behavior as a threat. This secures the support for prohibition among a
majority of the population. The minority that resists the campaign for
prohibition is ostracized and vilified, and in some cases actively harassed
and persecuted by the state, allied private corporations, and the community,
annihilating its last vestiges of political capital.
These campaigns may be staged to pursue a separate, pre-existing goal, or
they may be staged for their own sake, since they inherently marginalize the
non-compliant. The anti-gun campaign is an example of the former, whereas the
anti-tobacco campaign is largely an example of the latter.
Frequently, no explicit prohibition is necessary. Through the concatenation of
ostensibly non-prohibitive impediments, the undesired behavior can be made
practically impossible. This technique is particularly effective in
suppressing complex economic and political activities. Compared to explicit
prohibition, it has the advantage that supporters of the effective
prohibition can technically - though disingenuously - claim that the
undesired behavior is ``perfectly legal.''
Many of the establishment's strategies are so complex and subtle that few are
capable of understanding them even as a purely intellectual exercise.
Moreover, some of their strategies strike the layman as plainly outlandish,
with their actual effectiveness evident only to serious economists and
sociologists.
The Kissinger Doctrine, set forth in Henry Kissinger's Harvard dissertation,
can be summarized as the premise that the cultivation of conflict at the
borders and margins of a nation and society make the central mass of that
nation and society more susceptible to political control. It is a
revisitation of some of Nicolo Machiavelli's ideas. This principle has been
extended to the cityscape and the cultural landscape. Housing projects are
erected in close proximity to business districts, so that a short stroll from
the headquarters of the major insurance companies in Hartford or the major
financial firms in Manhattan are frightening war zones where hoodlums sell
crack cocaine in broad daylight. Male Americans are made to feel they are
under siege by female Americans (particularly in the courtroom) and white
Americans are made to feel they are under siege by non-white Americans
(particularly through affirmative action programs). Moreover, on the margins
of white male society are groups of militant, racist, extremist hate groups
(typically nationalist socialist), who are everybody's enemy, but
strategically act to box in mainstream white male Americans. The effect of
this is to duplicate the psychology of the Kissinger brush war doctrine.
Those who work in the urban institutions of power more readily consent, and
are more easily controlled in general, because of the psychological effects
of the nearby war zones. White males similarly grant their consent (to
tyranny) more readily and reliably, because of the myriad threats encroaching
on them.
The stock markets are used to camouflage and orchestrate economic
manipulation, though only publically traded companies are directly subject to
this mechanism. The vested management of a publically traded company find
their paper wealth multiplying when they act in a manner that receives the
approval of the establishment, and find it withering when the establishment
disapproves. Stock markets are largely Hegelian systems, in that the price a
market participant pays for a share of a particular stock is a function of
what he believes other market participants will pay for that share in the
future. This makes share price imminently susceptible to manipulation through
a variety of mechanisms, including mass media outlets, particularly those
specializing in business and finance.
Using the mass media, civilization is placed within a cultural feedback loop
filtered as directed by the establishment. Over the course of decades,
culture drifts in the directions they intend. At any given instant of the
progression, there is a substantial supply of program generators (script
writers, directors, producers, talent, song writers, etc.) who, due to their
immersion in the previous generation of establishment-filtered programming,
readily produce programming consistent with the establishment vision of next
generation culture. It is to their products that the masses are exposed. The
course of cultural evolution appears to be largely organic, but is in fact
nothing of the sort.
Copyright law generally makes accumulation and verbatim recapitulation of
news and public affairs programming (text, spoken, and audiovisual), without
explicit consent of the copyright owner, impractical or impossible. In
general, corporations and institutions that promulgate heavily censored views
and propagandized interpretations of current events (this includes the
establishment mass media, in detail) will never be held accountable if they
can avoid scrutiny for a month after the initial program has passed out of
circulation or program cycling (one month is the approximate temporal window
of consciousness of ordinary citizens for matters outside their personal
spheres). These corporations and institutions own the copyrights on the
material at issue, and vigorously exploit all available legal avenues to
prevent distribution of stale programming - blowback (presentation of
propaganda to other than the intended target audience), and propaganda that
is now either transparently dishonest or manipulative, or manifests alignment
with a now-disfavored position. Reprints of articles appearing in the Hearst
newspapers lauding Hitler and Naziism are not a common sight, though in a few
years when the copyrights expire, perhaps they will be.
The media reiterate the cult of heroic martyrdom ad nauseam. Society is
taught to believe that one cannot pursue heroic virtue without devastating
sacrifice. In this view, the brilliant artist starves in a hovel, the
brilliant inventor dies penniless and bitter, the political revolutionary
dies young and violently, and most generally, those who distinguish
themselves by excellence are rejected and eternally assailed by society. We
are to believe that the pursuit of excellence is made all the more noble by
the bearing of slings and arrows from the hulking bulk of ordinary humanity.
The fact that the brilliant, heroic, virtuous, and excellent, are often in
fact rejected and assailed with slings and arrows, certainly encourages
acceptance of this principle.
Nonetheless, the cult of heroic martyrdom is simple hogwash. There is nothing
noble in the bearing of hardship as such, and indeed it is ignoble to accept
any more hardship than is inherent to attainment of one's ends. The
revolutionary can attain his ends without sustaining the slightest bodily
injury, and indeed, be quite intact in every way on the days his goals are
realized (c.f. The Fate of the Signatories). Nothing more is needed than
careful attendance to strategy and detail, and diligent application of the
very intelligence and vision that are the universal hallmark of the heroic
innovator.
*
Many people find themselves either in constant motion from city to city, or
find those they care about to be in constant motion. Many find their families
and communities in a seemingly constant process of disintegration. This
discombobulation is at least partly an obvious consequence of the
establishment's pressure to breed artificially extensive interdependence and
mobility. In response to the inconstancy of their personal environment and
connections, people embrace the artificial and impersonal constancy projected
by the corporate establishment mass media, and offered by corporate careers,
and adopt it as their native culture.
Using the mass media and various other influence methodologies, society is
atomized into myriad special interest islands - examples of which were
provided above, identified as ``Prominent examples of American cults''. This
is the political equivalent of the intellectual cult of specialization
discussed above. A particular special interest island prioritizes a
particular narrow cause, and subordinates all other causes to it. Thus there
are animal rights islands and abortion ban islands that commit arsons and
other crimes in pursuit of their narrow causes. There is the cryptographic
libertarian island, which does not concern itself with firearms liberty.
There is the firearms libertarian island, which does not concern itself with
psychoactives liberty. There is the psychoactives libertarian island, which
does not concern itself with cryptographic liberty. The fragmentation
continues ad nauseam. The consequence of such a dislocated political
landscape is that an overwhelming majority is apathetic or hostile on any
particular issue. This facilitates the incremental destruction of all
liberties.
Culture is engineered to lull and shock the population into a continuous
intellectual and moral stupor, through scripted campaigns of collective
mental trauma piped through the mass media, and by the studious excision from
the mass media of ideas, individuals, and production styles, that might jolt t
he viewer or listener intellectually or morally awake and into independent,
politically significant action. Cohesion among the nation's citizens borne of
common experience centers on the largely dysfunctional and destructive
product piped through centrally controlled mass media conduits.
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