so reading all this alien propoganda tripe (oooo, beyond good n evil. i need that soundtrack back...."propaganda!" what a good game. oops, right, my rant/commentary/time taking activity because i'm out of good ole good stuff.)
So about all this alien stuff. Take a step back, true believer, and get a good look at ALL the trees. These "breaking" stories lately of "ex-government officials" and whatnot all ring similarily of some kind of contextual arrangement one has come across before...what was it? oh yeah.
religion.
So lets look at the basics. Stories are very powerful. They entrance the mind, enveloping the senses with the familiar (the known), with the unfamiliar (the unknown.) The overall sense that seems to be directed is the same as with any horror story. Monster aliens taking over your planet, stealing your children and bathing in their blood for nourishment. Underground bases buried all over the world, slowly turning humanity into a surface dwelling foodstock. Whats that? An angry Demon King named Satan who has an army of hellish beasts who grind you bones to make their scones? You better look out! Its too late to run, they are already here! Now you have to spread the word! Tell your friends! Monsters are coming! Some guy said he saw 'em! We believe, we beleive!
but its a little more than all that. Lets pin it on "The Man" aka humans in general. Somewhere along the lines, someone wanted to be in power. A sense of security i guess, in control. Fear of the unknown causes an unwary person to cling ever more steadfast to the known, his mother's breast, his father's heritage, his teacher's words. A person in power will eventually find ways to stay that way, right? I mean a human is a human, he's gonna do whatever it takes to do whatever it is that he's going for. Which leads us to the idea of power to begin with.
Power over people implies: people. More than one person. Someone other than you. But you can't control other people, people are seperate from eachother when it comes to such things. You can't control another's thoughts anymore than you could know the unknown. Once you knew it BOOM its not unknown anymore. So what do you do? That guy over there....he could just up and shoot you and steal your 200$ nike's. That guy! That ninja right there! You just know he's gonna uppercut you for opening a window! See what you sound like? If only you could get them to see your point of view... that would eliminate any need to actually control them. Just set them in a similar pattern that fits into your needs of power, and let them go at it.
But people are different! Every man's mind is a unique work when compared to his brethren. How does one coerce another into a different way of thinking? Why you tell them that they are different, and that different is wrong.
Whats that? You still worship a pantheon of gods? Get with the program! There's only one! And you're gonna DIE unless you switch over to our church!
Threats! Thats all you have really in your arsenal of potential King. You can't actively start acting on them until you have the advantage of physical force, usually measured in numbers. You recognize that the best relationships people have are trust built ones, friendships. So you don't want to be their enemy! Oh no, you can't threaten them directly....so you pretend to be interpretting something they don't know about and telling said victim that its this brand new unknowable thing that is shelling out death threats. It works in their heads, as long as you slip your silvery tongue deep enough down their ears. The words are unimportant, the words change with the type of person you are trying to talk to. Its like language within language.
Anywho, so now you're armed and dangerous! You thought up this theatrical idea that is one half off the wall crazy and the other half realistic. (Alien shoots man with an intense radiation beam that burns off his fingers and his lung. I don't know what aliens are, but i know what radiation is! It all must be real then!) Ya follow? Depending on what kind of effect you want depends on the type of story. But guidelines are all the same. Don't let people decide for themselves on their own. Be sure to be there to tell them what to do.
Dig up some dinosaur bones, smatter them with cow guts, tell the tenderhearted that these are the remains of a fierce dragon that would have eaten their village had you not just saved them! BOOM you just used a good story, mixed with special effects and common lore to transform your ass into a hero in their eyes. Congratulations, asshole!
So all the people not getting along, its because each one of them thinks that being different is wrong in some way. Right. Wrong.
Who the FUCK made these up, anyways? They are in of themselves unrelateable to the physical world, the environment (universe, planet, bedroom, however big your world is) other than what we assign to them. They are the construction of some ingenuity, i'll give you that. Lets make up some variables, get people to assign different meanings to it, then go around and boast that we have the only right one!
Somewhere along the lines, someone decided to tell fat people it was wrong to be fat. They told everyone it was wrong to be part of another religion. The problem nowadays is the truly great conniving going into stories. Pose as a friend they will. Give you candy, strangers will. Every yoda they come up with still has the same old story. Some giant, invisible alien wagging his finger at you. Promising eternal damnation or eons of paradise, but both beyond your scope of observation. You gotta die first. Tack on that all the misery they are going through, more than likely for the story teller's sake or his employers, is more than worth it and also the right thing to do!
All because someone made up right, and wrong, then assigned "different" to the wrong category. Maybe no one person invented "right" and "wrong" maybe they were just hand-me-downs that got misinterpretted.
People have the ability to choose things. OK. Choices come with consequences. Consequence is not a negative word, regardless of how you were brought up. It means the next thing in sequence. Consequences include what you would call rewards and punishment. Action-reaction. There is no stopping time, she is too mighty. too much momentum. too much fun :D
(go ahead, before continuing, do a history check. Look at popular "lines of thought" that were in place in empires, armies, almost anywhere. Mythology's, Religions, Laws, Dictators' Dictations. OK when done come back and read the rest, we're almost there.)
But what about the other half? You're pretty smart! Thats right, we've only gotten halfway: the relation between Wrong and Different. So we've told them where not to go. How to guide them where you want them, oh potential ruler? You have to associate Right with something.
Great, now what? Well people like to be happy. Good luck trying to be their storyteller friend and cutting happiness out of the picture. You gotta relate happiness with something else. Well, people appreciate wonder, you know that already by being a good storyteller. You gotta shine the light right in their eyes to blind them to everything else. Super shiny. But you also gotta give them something to do. I mean, sure its one thing to get them all to be afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, so the next step is telling them how to build a brick house of safety. So you woo'd n wow'd them with your dragon story, but now you wanna be king. You want to have servants wipe you ass and change your clothes, cook your food, build your house, give you money and pretty things! You want it all baby! so how do you get all these people to give up all their hard earned stuff for nothing at all?
Tell them it brings them happiness? Good luck. the first people you lose are your asswipers. Good job, dumbass. Now you have to rely on the muscles of those you already coerced to get those asswipers back. Shoulda been smarter, back to the drawing board. What do people like? What is something that people in general, do? Besides fuck that is. You had to tell them that fucking was wrong otherwise they'd spend all their time fucking and not wiping your ass. Not to mention their numbers would grow and eventually that could be a problem if things ever fell out of favor.
What you gotta do is...say look at that big strong guy. People sure admire his rippling pectorals! Chicks dig him, guys want to be him....Doi! Why didn't you think of it earlier? Give them an idol! Give them a goal to work towards! Good job! But be careful, lets look at the different kinds of idols and pick the best one for the job. People as a community are still varied and wide because no matter how much you convinced them that being different is wrong, different is what they still are. What kind of idol is universally appealing...
right! Well you're self-importance and puffed up sense of self-righteousness that even led you down this absurd path to begin with is probably shouting that you should be the idol! Of course! Fancy tricks and special effects, combined with some good ole stories, now that'll do it, right? Wrong! Remember, when we were convincing people that different was wrong, we had to make up some invisible someone telling them it was wrong. You pick a real thing, something they could run into in real life, and its not what you say it is BOOM you're whole charade falls apart. Best stick to the ghosts. Same with heroes....if you're gonna give them an idol best make it someone they can't turn on when they find its a phony.
So you got your invisible idol up and ready. You got your storytellers out amongst the people. Now thats where you gotta be careful. Sure you might luck out and get a few zealots who take your word for it, but chances are your conniving ass is gonna attract other conniving asses to be able to do your dirty work, and you'll have to give them a cut. Now whether you decide to turn your fabricated leadership into full blown warlord dictatorship is up to you, but you have to be careful either way. Those you let in on your plan are that much more of a problem. Pay them too much and they grow lazy. Pay them too little and they find ways to knife you in the back. Cut their throats after their duty is done seems appropriate, but you can't let anyone find out, or someone who doesn't want to get knifed by you knifes you first. Crap! being a charaltan jackass king seems dangerous, but chances are you're pompuos attitude will ironically find security in the lies you made up to get where you are today.
So now you've got a full blown story to scare the masses into listening, an answer to their made up problem, and either an obvious or clandestine connection between that answer and yourself. Congratualtions! You're now a king! i'll be the ninja that knifes you, btw.
construct their rights and their wrongs, and demand obedience. obey. that is until someone invents money, in which your king ass is totally screwed unless you can control that too. Good luck. The rich (nowadays we call them capitalists) are the original kings. Coveting, Greedy fools whose power basis relies on just as much empty lies as any other kinghood. They kind of glossed over the be their friends and storytelling bits and just went right to the muscle part. Right to the gut of the people. You stole all their food and then refused to give them any unless they obeyed. Then you only gave enough for them survive, keeping plenty for yourself to waste. Capitalism is the same thing today. You tell slaves they are free, at least free to work or be homeless, or get beaten up by their cronies (see: police). You give them empty promises that a rich, fulfilling life comes with retirement at 60. You give everyone the opportunity to be rich too, as long as they reach certain criteria (see: have lots of money or something of worth.) This is another type of person in power, another system thats so old people think its just the way things are. Silly people, we make things the way they are. Kings who promise you a lifetime of happiness...after you die and give them whatever you have. Kings who promise happiness, as long as you don't die trying to reach it. Kings who all claim to have your happiness, and its worth you giving up your life for it. Thats what it means to be a king. Convincing people to give up their lives for yours. Vicarious indeed.
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tommorow's lesson is about what life would be like if the opposites were true; if people were ok with being different, had themselves as idols and strived to better themselves, but only used themselves as comparison (not other people.) People that saw other people as sources for new ideas instead of trying to stamp them out. Creativity! Respect, Responsibility, and Love for the self! once started in the individual it will change the community as well (duh, society is made up of individuals). getting along with people that are different is the basis: respect. If you respect your own opinions, then you can respect others too. Being able to differentiate between the self and others is key. On one hand we are all the same (we all are human, we all have opinions, we all make choices, we all affect our environment that we share.) on the other hand, we are all different (no two are exactly alike, though you can get pretty darn close. like absolute zero.)
Anyone who can't understand that has some serious deprogramming to go through.
nitey nite.
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