> A bash-the-TMO-as-Nazis fest seems to have broken out here this > morning. Guyfawkes, when you say "military organization," I think you > mean political. I see no guns. Also, I'm unconvinced by your > application of the Nazi-evoking words "untermenschen" and "subhuman" > to TMO attitudes to people. I think that's over the top by several miles.
Nope, I used the word "military" because that's exactly what I meant. Political organizations think in terms of convincing people, maybe by dubious means, maybe by emotion rather than reason but they're still thinking in terms of opening a dialog with the outside world, reaching out and convincing people. Military organizations don't have such girlie ideas, they think in terms of "let's kick ass and blast the fuckers to kingdom come". The TMO used to think in terms of having a dialog with the rest of the world and there are still traces of that. But mostly it thinks in terms of "let's kick ass and blast the fuckers into Sat Yuga with group coherence". People are pumping millions into "weapons development" in the form of pundits and super-advanced technologies of the unified field. Scarcely a single cent is being spent on building up academic credibility and a good name in society. In fact the TMO has thrown away most of it's credibility because it was thought to be for sissies and the low life who worry about public appearances, factual accuracy and logical consistency. Ethics? Ha! you're so un-evolved, we don't need ethics we've got pundits! Why waste time on such boring things as ethical behavior and reasoned argument when we can just blast people with pundits chanting. People don't think in terms of how to communicate properly or how to put up a reasoned argument. They think in terms of "Super-radiance numbers". There's a very direct interpretation of "Super-radiance numbers" as "mega-coherence units" and "blast radii" and that makes it very transparent what the mode of thinking is. Already we're hearing talk of "collateral damage". People are telling themselves that if others can't behave as prescribed by the TMO then it's right that they should have their homes flooded by mother nature. Even though there's no relation between the weather and super-radiance people who believe there is think that wrecking people's lives is worth it for the sake of conquest by a higher force. That is military thinking. The TMO is a military organization. Just because they don't use physical weapons doesn't mean they're thinking in political terms. The command structure, the power plays, the buildings, the language, everything right down the the paranoia about secret agents is military. If someone was introduced as "General Gordon of the Invincibility Forces of Iowa" no one in the TMO would bat an eyelid, the role would slot right in to the existing structure. It's such a subtle thing that most people haven't realized it's happened. Once we were an educational organization dedicated to spreading ideas through dialog and discussion. But we aren't anymore, now the goal is conquest without discussion. That is military thinking. It's a good idea poisoned by the essence of evil, the belief that one group has a "right" to dominate everyone else without asking them.
