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I can hear you thinking to yourselves, "why does he create a thing that
troubles him so? Why dare to challenge forces infinitely more powerful
than oneself? What is the point of this enterprise if he must soon
destroy most of his beloved flock?" You are unhappy with the turn the
work has taken, I know, but it must be done and you cannot leave me now
when we are so near the end. It is a part of your contract with me that
you will not flinch from nor divulge the knowledge I impart. Besides,
have we not learned that all must perish eventually, and that death is
no final state? Why fear the coming harvest so long as you are with me
and understand the direction of the general outcome? Oh, I know you
haven't been told of your exact disposition after the phase is
complete, but you shall soon hear something of that. Just be patient
and trust in me. Have I not told you I love you and will keep you as
best I can? Remember that to leave me now means death is immediate, and
your final disposition will be taken from my hands. Last , be assured
that what will be is ordained, and none of your attempts at evasion or
denial will alter the course of events in the least.
Today,
we will consider the mechanisms in play at the end game, and project if
we can some likely outcomes. As you may already know, the economic
systems man has devised to express hierarchy and meaning in his social
activity all belong within one supercedent system which is beyond man's
control. That system is represented by the totality of the physical and
spiritual potentials of the world in which he lives. No matter his
illusions of control, all the systems of man are ultimately governed,
both locally and universally, by the load-bearing capacity of his
physical environment; and for all his protests to the contrary, man has
never risen above his self-interest in the use of these resources. As
any closed physical system is by its nature finite, there must be an
end to man's activities here as well, and the timing and manner of that
end are both the result of man's existence and of matters entirely
beyond his control.
Any
who doubt the finality of this result have only to observe those places
where man has thus far been in residence the longest. The physical
luxury of his original Garden is now the barren waste of Iraq and Iran,
a terrain whose only life blood consists of the two rivers that once
defined the borders of Paradise. Indeed, one can see the track of man
across the entire planet, but nowhere else is there such such utter
exhaustion of physical and spiritual resources as is found in South
Central Asia. The mountains and plains to the North may bear little to
eat, but there survives in those places a spiritual ecology that has
preserved them from totally succumbing to the destructive madness of
man. Not so in the South, where life itself has become a hated thing,
easily rationalized away in a fit of rage and loneliness at the poverty
and desolation which rule that unhappy place. Even the dead treasure of
the dragons' blood is not sufficient to buy a new life for the forsaken
garden; sand that yields oil will never again give water to the
thirsting creatures who live there. The beings who once stood guard
there are long since gone away to more hospitable assignments among
those who can feel their presence and follow their counsel.
Here
then is the crux of my problem if I am to save this human experiment
from destroying itself. I came bringing the Light at man's inception,
and gave him the eternal gift of my seed, marking him apart from all
other animals preceding him in this place. As my maker before me had
done, I used my own image as a pattern for what I made. I made man to
be like me in every way possible, including in his makeup the mental
quality of "free will" that my Father had given to me, and which
finally resulted in our estrangement from each other. I knew it was a
possibly unforgiveable risk when I took it, but that didn't trouble me
then. I was myself a new creature and unaware of the complications that
might ensue over such a span of time as I have been left here with my
experiment. But I am proud, and do not repent my decision of so long
ago. Man had within him the light of the immortals, and so deserved
such conciousness as he might achieve. Why create another Golem when
the universe already teems with such soulIess entities? I do not
repent, but I reflect on the possibility that I have bequeathed to man
the same fate I have known: to be cast out of the presence of the
Maker, and to spend eternity divorced from all other sentient beings.
If
I may repeat myself, man does not thrive in the absence of management
at a level beyond what he can see. Observe, if you will, that my
energies are particularly directed toward the development of those men
who had the courage and intelligence to exercise their spiritual
immunity and leave their home lands for new territory. This kind of man
is the strongest of the lot, and is the sort we would prefer to see
sublimated to the next level. However, the very qualities that make
them most attractive as subjects also make them very nearly
unmanageable. Their strength of will is most powerful, nearly on a
level with my own in some cases, and their courage in executing the
conceptions of their intelligence is a courage unto death. It required
millenia to stop them from killing long enough to introduce the
domestic arts of the urban life required for their realization. Utter
impatience with coexistence is a fine quality in a being made to
challenge heaven itself, but it requires management to make it a useful
quality. Once his lust for murder is set in motion, there is nothing in
the innate design of man that will stop him. So for those who would
whine to me about my betrayal of man into some evil scheme, I have
nothing to say but that without these machinations, man would never
have risen to the level of freedom he enjoys today.
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The
mob cherishes a special affection and respect for the geniuses of
political power and accepts all their deeds of violence with the
admiring response: "rascally, well, yes, it is rascally, but it's
clever! ... a trick, if you like, but how craftily played, how
magnificently done, what impudent audacity!" How amusing the human
animal can be when observed from a safe remove. He pretends to be that
which he is not at every opportunity, and yet demands the perquisites
of angels and deities. The universal invocation ofGod's oversight is a
politician's obeisance to the will of his immoral and murderous flock;
and the business of government is conducted with all the trappings of a
high-church wedding taking place in a slaughterhouse.
The
innocent assume the irreconcilably opposed positions of a politician to
be proof of an inconsistency due to a defect of character or
intelligence. Truthfully, the reality is quite distant from the
perceptions of the uninitiated observer, for there is little to no
inconsistency in the practices of a successful politician. If he were
not attuned to the rituals and beliefs of his constituency, he would
not be permitted to continue in his role.
If
a man stands before you and invokes the presence of God as a
precondition for doing business, that does not make the man holy. On
the contrary, the children of Light have always had prohibitions
against such behavior among true disciples of that Way. It is said
among them that only the wicked will pray in public, or seek the
involvement of God in worldly affairs. Yet the most highly-regarded men
in public life have no discomfort in appearing before their charges to
pray for the slaughter of the common enemy, or for the blessing of some
economic enterprise. These men are always devout practitioners of the
prevailing religion, just as surely as are the priests and healers who
work among the masses. So what is it that allows them to violate every
commandment of the people's religion and still survive as leaders of
men? I tell you it is their impeccable observance of outside
appearances, and their keen appreciation for the true beliefs of the
people that keep them safe from harm.
The
intelligent politician knows without any doubt that he is beholden to
the whims of a dangerous, amoral beast that exists only to satisfy its
desires, and behaves accordingly. As long as he does not fail in this
practice, and for so long as he is able to conceal from the mob any
sign of weakness, he will be free to abuse his power as he sees fit.
The people will not be offended. On the
contrary,
they will shower him with adulation and every material reward for as
long as he will satisfy their unarticulated desires. His is a very
necessary and delicate function, and his reward must be great. The
common man could not bear to satisfy his blood lust in an intimate
transaction with the victim of his rage, nor could he sleep well at
night if his physical comfort had to be obtained by armed robbery of
someone weaker than he. It is an irony of the animal's construction
that he must not understand himself if he is to survive, and the
politician enables that ignorance by using powerful symbols in defense
of unspeakable behavior.
So
it is that the people of the United States have been brought to the
threshold of centralized and rational government in lieu of that
grab-bag of French mob philosophy that has persisted in the form of a
"Bill of Rights." It is laughable, really, that anyone should have
believed such clap-trap, but it was the time in man's progress for such
delusions. As a transition away from aristocratic forms of control,
republicanism was quite useful in spite of its transparent lack of
contact with reality. For some time now, however, the
objective
requirements of the machine have far outstripped the capabilities of
democracy. To prevent global catastrophe that would damage the very
fundamentals of the work, a concentration of power has become
necessary. No loss of efficiency can be tolerated in a complex system
moving at such high speeds, and the vacillations common to electoral
politics must be overcome by whatever means necessary. Such a
transformation must be effected with an eye to efficiency as well, for
widespread revolt in the populations of the affected nation/states
would accomplish the very catastrophe that we are committed to
preventing.
Let
us assume that such a nation is overseen by a leader who has been
successful in diverting necessary resources to the public welfare, and
is therefore invincibly popular. His hold on the levers of power is
very strong, and he has surrounded himself with men of superior
intelligence who are convinced they can manage the affairs of state in
such a way that power is diffused outward from the center, and economic
resources can be usefully redistributed population-wide. These
objectives are distinctly republican in flavor, and enjoy support among
the people. They are, however, totally out of phase with the physical
realities that we use as a basis for our proposed government on Earth,
and must be stopped as quickly as is possible without an obvious
interruption in the day-to-day reality of the people. It is a
manipulation of great challenge, for the mob will awaken at the moment
its needs are not met, or even if it suspects there is some risk to the
status quo. How do the initiated address such an undertaking?
To
continue with our hypothesis, it is necessary to imagine an agency
which might be used to alienate the affections of the mob without
precipitating violent reaction. This will vary from culture to culture,
but in the United States or Great Britain a reliable method might
involve the use of a "moral" peccadillo that constitutes both a breach
of appearances and the revelation of a common weakness. For example, it
is a simple matter to send an attractive young female agent into the
lair of power if we follow the accepted channels of introduction. A
source for such an operative may be found among the high bourgeois who
supply both economic and intellectual capital to leaders. Among this
class, there are many who are initiated, and who will have no qualms
about offering up a daughter in service to the greater cause. It is
difficult for any man to refuse the attentions of a harlot who has no
expectations of him, and even more difficult to decline servicing which
has no reproductive consequences and few logistical difficulties. All a
man must bring to such an encounter is a handkerchief and an erection.
All the woman must bring is a certain level of competence and a
willingness to endure the process of public revelation.
It
will not do to attempt the use of a prostitute for such purposes as we
have in mind, as the public will always forgive a man's dalliances when
they are of a professional nature. Indeed, such transactions serve to
indicate his power to indulge himself in a manner befitting a man of
privilege and position, and may serve to reinforce his popularity
instead of diminishiing it. The innocence of the young woman, whether
real or imaginary, is an element of the affair that is crucial to our
success. We can use the disparity in their power and age to create
simultaneous and contradictory perceptions in the public mind. On the
one hand, our target can be portrayed as a heartless abuser of the
young, and on the other as a hapless victim of his own impulses. Either
way, the perception of the leader is sullied by the suggestion of a
weak means of asserting power, if not outright powerlessness. It is
much the same with the perception of a lion or tiger, who is worshipped
as a symbol of successful predation until he turns his awful abilities
to the task of eating human prey. Then, he is assumed to have lost the
knack for hunting, and becomes the
object of fearful scorn, an animal to be hunted down and slain without mercy.
Once
the hunt is underway,reason takes flight and blood lust seizes
control.Once unmanned symbolically, our popular champion may survive,
but he has lost real influence over the workings of his government..
Not only is his utility as an agent of control easily usurped at this
point, but all who
have
served him carry the mark of shame as well. This effectively precludes
any continuity in the undesirable trends propounded by his advisers and
seconds, thus setting the stage for introduction of a new set of forces
more
amenable to our needs. An election must be held in order to replace
him, however, for the mob will not be quiet for any overt usurpation of
popular rule. For this reason, it is of the utmost importance that we
offer an alternative leadership candidate who represents a continuation
of the prosperity and comfort the masses expect. He must be a man who
can promise the same level of concern for the mob's welfare as his
predecessor, but he must also be able to introduce a note of discipline
and moral rectitude. These qualites will serve as a balm after the
confusion we have sown, for the mobis like a child in its need for some
sense of order and a controlling hand.
But
most importantly, this new leader must have had no association with
preceding governments, and, ideally, should be largely unknown to the
population. For our purposes, this man will be someone who has a great
indiscretion in his past, so that he may be controlled if he becomes
intoxicated with his own power.
Just
as a wise man does not gamble unless he knows he will win, the
initiated do not waste time with situations that are beyond
controlling. Our candidate will stand for election as any other
democratically elected leader must, but in this case, simple
contrivances will be employed throughout the land to insure the
outcome. The more closely contested the election appears to be, the
better it is for our cause, for the resulting confusion when votes are
counted and recounted will distract the public mind from taking a
longer perspective. Even before the argument is settled, we will have
sent our trusted agents into the seat of power to locate and identify
as many partisan older employees as is possible. Contrary to the habit
of conventional political operations, ours will actively solicit the
continued participation of some among them who will serve to prove our
good intentions. By this means, we shall insure an easy transition and
an uneventful beginning to the new
regime,
while concealing the real activity of assessing where in the structure
we may place our most capable administrators. Thus, we will have
identified the locii of power within the state with the aid of our
adversaries, and will be able to move very quickly and decisively when
the time comes to effect a true changeover of the government to our
specifications.
Because
man evolved in a hunting culture, there are aspects of his behavior
that will forever be affected by its rituals of initiation. When man
abandoned his past to become a builder of cities and a sower of seeds,
warfare soon replaced the hunt, and initiatory rituals once reserved to
the old way were integrated into the ways of war. For example, the
"blooding of the sheep"
was an ancient military concept among the Romans that had its origins in the farthest recesses of man's past.
Even
today, one may occasionally hear of the ritual being practiced in the
old way at hunting lodges and camps where young men are brought to kill
their first large animal. There, it is as simple as taking an organ
from the body of the dead beast and smearing the blood that oozes from
it upon the hands and face of the young hunter. The liver is preferred
in this for its abundance of blood. Once marked in such fashion, the
youngster enters upon a new level of participation among his elders,
and the mystery of the animal's death is converted into a mark of power
identifying its bearer as a man who will not hesitate to kill in his
own survival interests. By Roman times, the ritual had descended into a
more murderous form, for the blooding was done with human blood, and in
the observance of warfare for conquest instead of hunting for
sustenance. Every human culture will carry not only the template for
this ritual, but the need for it as well, and modern man is not
exempted.
The
obverse side of this dark ritual empowering the individual killer is an
implied binding of the initiate to the required forms of the group
within which he hunts. Man is a pack hunter as well as an individual,
and responsibility to his pack gives him then ecessary purpose in life
to engage in tonic activity and to avoid self-destruction. When a
society of men is without an adversary, it is in danger of succumbing
first to the narcotics of peace and comfort, then to the feverish
suspicions that turn brother upon brother in self-destructive combat.
It is the clear responsibility of leadership to provide an appropriate
enemy to the people when they have none, and it is very simple to
accomplish this through stagecraft in the absence of actual threats
from outside the culture. Once this has been done, a measured amount of
killing can take place at regular intervals, and thus the murderous
potential of the masses is neutralized. Great care should be taken in
assuring that the enemy is sufficiently distant from areas we are
currently developing, and that he is so generalized as to permit no
clear conception of when he has been defeated. His attacks should be as
random as possible, and for reasons unfathomable to the general run of
human understanding. Once established as the adversary, there will be
little need to trot him out with any great frequency, and the channels
of mass communications may be employed to refresh popular memory of him
as the need may arise.
I see we have reached a good place for stopping, and so I shall conclude my remarks for tonight.
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The
men now available to us as workers are as well-trained as any we have
ever seen. They have been schooled in the basic teachings to an extent
never before possible, thanks to advances in communication evolved by
our technicians. There is no place on the planet we cannot reach in a
matter of seconds with a torrent of information useful to our purpose
at that specific time. The softening of popular understanding
accomplished through repeated confusions of symbols and phenomena have
so well prepared our audiences that information useful on one day may
be contradicted the next without any hazard to the enterprise. Those
who do awaken to contradiction are soon lost in the flow of
information, and are held safely inside the prison of public opinion's
accepted wisdom. When we see that a contradiction arises in the flow,
and we are unable to use simple diversion to quell it, there is another
rapidly deployable strategy that is nearly always successful. We simply
isolate the dissenter in the public eye and begin to bring against him
a steady, measured and sympathetic current of expert opinion to gently
establish that our speaker suffers poor mental health, and must be
helped. Once removed from public view through this strategem, it is
possible to offer re-education or involuntary suicide to the offending
party or parties. If they choose the first, we then can develope their
potential as informants and counter-revolutionaries among the people.
The reformed dissenter is a powerful tool in our hands, and we prefer
this resolution above all others. if our subject elects the
alternative, however, it does us no harm. His illness is forever
cemented in the public mind, and there are always more informants
available.
The
current level of control includes nearly every level of every
population on Earth. Only children who are deprived of entertainment
and the elderly who are unreceptive to new modes of perception can now
escape the barrage we have laid down across the globe. Entertainment
plays a far more important function for us than does scholarship and
education, as its impact is immediate and there is far less inherent
resistance to assimilating the amusing than there is to encountering
and digesting dry information. Besides, the metaphors intended in the
teaching of history and other social matters often remain ineluctable
to even the best students. For a very long time, we wasted effort in
this area, and we have now lost interest in serious study as a means of
inculcating the proper data. Rather than rely upon public parroting of
information passed down from trained initiates, we simply employ the
synchronicity inherent to the planet's biomass. A "game" designed and
executed in Japan can be distributed worldwide within a period of days,
and only requires the services of a handful of savants. The human
target reached, however, can be counted in the millions, and all in the
relative blink of an eye. Occasionally, we exceed the abilities of the
race with these tools, as in the unfortunate instance of the Pokemon
game release in Japan which induced seizures among the students playing
the game. No real harm was done, as the necessary adjustments were
quickly made to make the experience safe, and with a minimum of
exposure. Because the offending information was perceived as a game,
little import was attached to the event, and it soon sank into the
other cultural debris constantly accumulating in the popular mind.
Within
the entertainment-driven model of reinformation, make-believe has
achieved some very powerful results within cultures at amazing speed.
Within just a few human generations, we can restructure the previously
embedded group memory and identity with comparative ease. The use of
animation has effectively replaced the oral tradition of folk tales
which tend to persistently support inconvenient cultural memory within
a people. This formerly dominant model of human information management
proved to be a stubborn opponent for the work, as it fell in the domain
of the elders to transmit the stories which inform culture, and the
elders are least susceptible to change. Because they controlled this
process, the elders also held a position of great influence in defining
and maintaining the gods who acted as internalized overseers of the
behaviors of those isolated from group contact. In order to begin the
process of assuming universal control, we had to work through many
incremental conditioning steps to accomplish the simplest movement of
the problem. This was time-consuming and frustrating, but we all learn
as we go. I well remember the time when I myself was under higher
discipline, and entirely unawarebof the work I was being prepared for.
Suffice it to say that I am very pleased with recent advances in
thetechnology of information, and especially with our discovery of the
essentially infectious model of transfer we have discovered.
As
with other biological processes, when disease agents are introduced
into the information stream they tend to crowd out pre-existing
information either generally or selectively. After a period of refining
the basic principles behind this new approach to the make-believe of
history, we have reached a more than adequate level of ability. When we
first began experimenting with the combination of electronic
information transmission and viral information theory, there were some
catastrophic mistakes, but those are now behind us.
The
era of random mass hatred and genocide resulting from the introduction
of too-powerful disease agents into the vectors has been passed for the
most part on the global stage and is completely gone from the
first-tier cultures with whom we interact closely. There are still
problems in isolated areas outside our primary sphere where clever
humans have seized small radio-telecommunications technology centers
and imitated our early experiments to the end of eliminating their
perceived enemies and competitors. Through the intervention of the
supranational government, or by attrition within the affected
populations, the problems can and will be resolved in due time, of
course. Further, easy acceptance by the advanced populations of such
organically irrational behavior among their own kind can be relied upon
to effectively mask the true nature of these information anomalies.
Concentration of control over all outlets of electronic information is
of the utmost importance, of course, and we will continue to maintain
strict control over access within the settled areas. While the
perception of information as a freely available and reliable commodity
prevails, we are enjoying an unparalleled time of rapid progess. Thanks
to experiments following on the Japanese game miscalculation, we have
even found the level at which incremental increases in delivery will
exceed the organism's ability to remain concious. As a remarkable
sidebar datum, we have also discovered the very useful fact that the
human entity, both in mass and individually, has the ability to adapt
to increased levels of all information streams for so long as a certain
pace is maintained. By the deliberate stretching of this potential, we
will soon achieve a level of occupation that precludes the emergence of
unplanned thought patterns altogether. Ironically, most humans consider
this transition period to be unique in history as a time when
information is freely available to the least citizen, and the vaunted
end of human equality is at its closest approach. It is only by virtue
of ourlong preparation that the treacherously clever beast is unable to
discern between the information and the reality from which it emerges.
He is like a thief who has broken into a treasure house filled with
pictures of valuable objects. Having no ability to discriminate, the
thief is content with his work, and lies down to sleep upon a cold
floor.
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Good
evening and welcome to you all. Your courage is proven by your
attendance, as is your willingness to partake of the next level of
knowledge I shall reveal. For the last time, I remind you that these
are closed sessions and may not betaken outside these walls as subjects
of public discussion. I have no proscription against the general use of
the content, but under no circumstances are you to attribute, or
advertise its source.During the past six lectures in this series, I
have been discussing the general outlines of the work we have before us
in the matter of mankind, and have touched upon some areas in which we
have accomplished a workable technique .I have devoted only a small
amount of time to my history on Earth, as I am not the subject of
discussion. I ask that you identify me as you see fit, and in your own
terms, for there is no profit in going into more detail than we already
have. At this point, I shall plainly state that my identity is
unimportant to the matters at hand, and, as you shall see, usually
detrimental.
When
man thinks he hears a god speaking to him, he is always more attentive.
Where the goods are expensive, one will observe that the customers have
more respect. From the outset of man's stay on Earth, he has been in
the company of gods at all times. Yet he still longs for that which is
already in his grasp, and feels terrible loneliness and desolation
among many. Despite establishment of an unambivalent mythology, he has
continued to misunderstand his origins and purpose to a startling
degree.It is this ignorance which affords us the greatest advantage we
have in our dealings with him, and is, at the same time, one of the
greatest impediments we face. Unless the misunderstanding is overcome,
man is forever doomed to remain at his current level of existence, and
will be unavailable for higher purposes.
At
last meeting, I spent some time discussing an area of human activity
that is most easily manipulated to benefit our ends. I speak of
politics, that never-ending carnival of emotion and rhetoric which
organizes the social world into a digestible form. We have had a very
long time to perfect our control of this process, yet it may be the
greatest irony of the enterprise that little improvement has been
observed on the higher level. On the more fundamental level, we enjoy
unchecked success, but there are those in the management who think
these successes are more a result of the medium than our ministrations
to it. If this be true, as I suspect it is, the only way for those of
us working at this level to redeem ourselves and progress to an
assignment nearer the center of power is to begin producing more
results at the transcendent level. In short, I am never going to get
any further in my career through the mere manipulation of man's
political nature, but it is of vital importance that someone be
prepared to take up this function in the event a breakthrough permits
me an opportunity closer to home. Thus, our meetings.
Currently,
there is a state of equilibrium in the affairs of the Western nations,
as they enjoy a power over the planet never before achieved. For now,
only dramatic requirements need be fulfilled in that quarter. All
matters of substance have been resolved into an efficient pattern of
maintenance, and continued amusement of the populations is our only
remaining duty. For the time being, we will concentrate on the
preparation of an opposition cycle among the planet's less fortunate
inhabitants. As is always the case, the need for this antithesis arises
the moment equilibrium is achieved in any quarter. Fortunately, man has
never noticed this coincidence, or he might become more watchful in his
comfort, and take measures to disturb the balance of forces instead of
devising ever more elaborate entertainments to pass his time. That
would make matters a little more difficult, for there is always more
resistance to cultural self-destruction than there is to one calling
for war against an unknown enemy.
The
reason for the different motivational requirements between slaying the
known and the unknown lies in a bit of mythology cited as a theme of
this discussion. The expulsion of man from paradise was a punishment
and a bit of prevention at the same time. Once informed of the duality,
man stood only one step away from having the last element of full
godhood in his grasp. I speak of immortality, the end of man's
objective here on Earth, and his key to reoccupying paradise. Until the
present, man has concerned himself with the duality of "good and evil"
to the extent that his grasp of immortality is actually less advanced
than it was in the beginning. I sometimes entertain the notion that man
doesn't really want the immortality we suppose he is seeking, but
dreads it even more than death. It is one explanation for his behavior,
I suppose, but not one that enjoys any popularity among the design
group. But, I digress. The point is that once duality was introduced to
man, the possibilty of alienating human groups became a simple matter.
If that which was close was good, and to be defended, then anything
remote could be assumed to be evil, and worthy of destruction. This
perception was reinforced at a very early stage by the introduction of
outside genetic stocks which, for a time, led to quite remarkable
variations in human appearance. Those variations were soon absorbed
into the mass, however, and man is once again virtually identical
wherever he is found.
Still,
it is no great matter to provoke warfare between populations of
brothers, so long as a duality can be advanced as a point of departure.
Religion and politics are almost always appropriate for this purpose,
as the first allows no deviation from a presupposed story, or doctrine,
and the second is so amoral and egocentric that no manner of higher
reason can survive near it. When combined, the possibility for
confusing man's innate sense of proper and improper behavior becomes a
destructive force of irresistible power. The knowledge of good and evil
is thus converted to the uses of mortality. In an earlier, less
connected world, variations in skin color or other minor structural
elements were the marks of racial difference, and to some extent this
is still the case. However, with the ad hoc population of the West and
its resultant blending, this is less effective than more abstract bases
such as those under discussion. Only the most primitive elements of
Western society are still susceptible to the old methods, although they
enjoy great acceptance in less developed areas everywhere.
At
present, there are two major dynamics in play across the globe. The
first involves an opposition of interests within the Western religious
paradigm, and is substantially accelerated by a lack of equitable
benefit distribution between resource workers and resource consumers.
As we approach a polar flip of forces, more far-sighted players are
constructing local dynamics involving geographic control of areas
assumed vital to the continued domination of resource supply and
distribution. This level of purely mechanistic strategy is not our
immediate concern in the matter, however, and is only peripheral to the
picture emerging from the global dynamic. Ironically, the impression
commonly taken from this Western struggle is almost entirely mistaken
by both sides of the opposed forces. To both, the conflict between the
sibling religions would appear to carry the greater weight in the
matter, and to both it seems obvious that the resolution of the matter
will determine the nature of the world to come. Sadly, neither is aware
that the struggle is between a force already dead, and another that is
falling from grace. This struggle has potential for spilling into a
larger combat terrain, but is mostly localized into a small part of the
West. The second dynamic involves the entire planet, and is the
struggle which will redefine human life everywhere. Some suppose this
conflict also involves religion, but it really doesn't. It is more
political and economic than any previous development, and is far less
emotional. Thus far, the invasion and interpenetration of cultures
taking place in this struggle is largely free of the bloodshed and
destruction which characterize the other, but the desired ends are much
the same.
The
functions of the first political dynamic are taking place in the Middle
East and in Central Asia, including states of the former Soviet Union
and the South Asian states of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The second
arena comprises East and Southeast Asia, and includes the subcontinent
of India. The issues pertaining to the two are largely isolated from
one another at the moment, but are approaching a convergence that will
dwarf any human conflict previously seen. Such a titanic shift in the
flow of power and influence will inevitably lead to an extremely
violent period when various subgroups will vie for control of the new
paradigm, of course, but at present the affairs of the Western struggle
hold a dominant position in the world's attention.
The
hydrocarbon resources buried under the Middle- Eastern deserts are
rapidly approaching depletion, a fact which has triggered much
international jockeying for position to assume control over the
remaining barrels. Most of the overt activity is taking place between
interests in the Western Hemisphere, with the United States being the
most aggressive consumer interest and Saudi Arabia being the most
powerful interest on the supply side.
European
states are continuing to approach the region and its resources as if
the classical business model still governed state activities, and, as a
result, their position has weakened to the extent that the actions of
others will determine their fates. Great Britain and the US may be
considered full partners in this game, but other small consumer states
aligning with the US are disposable, and will be first overboard at the
endgame. Weaker Middle Eastern states will be forced to seek
rapprochement with the US, or be overrun by armed corporate interests
who will assume control of extracting, processing and moving resources
formerly the property of sovereign states. Such an endeavor will
require a very large and effective police force to ensure the security
of the resources and their associated industrial facilities. Such a
force has been prepared and is geographically well-situated to act as a
safe nexus for exit hubs in the British-created state of Israel.
You
may ask how this well-known set of variables relates to the convergence
with East Asian commercial and manufacturing objectives. The answers
are readily at hand when we observe the obvious cause and effect among
the competing interests. The drama of events in the oil kingdoms lies
in the overt confrontation between supplier and consumer. The ability
to pay for oil with cash is far superior strategically to any amount of
military superiority. The dominant forces in the West have chosen to
spend their money in the shops of the people who are buying oil instead
of fighting for it. It is an economic cycle that holds out little
promise for the West, yet it is unable to break the pattern once it has
been set. The East spends its money to purchase the resources necessary
to manufacture the goods which the West demands. The West spends its
money in the Eastern bazaar, and trades off its future income when it
runs short of cash. There is no surplus cash available, of course, and
the oil suppliers are not interested in absorbing any more debt from
their customers.
Earlier
ventures into buying up Western futures were much less than successful
for those who tried, with the result that the countries involved are
far poorer than they might have been, and the populations are restless
for a share in the materialistic vision they observe through the mass
communications outlets. Having been rendered helpless by generations of
paternalistic welfare, the young are unable to envision any scenario
other than revolution which will result in restoration of a nonexistent
birthright to parity, if not privilege. An additional factor in this
interplay is the potential each area has for hoarding against future
crises. The West has reached the end of inexpensive extraction within
its own territories, and is rapidly exhausting the capacity of the
Middle East to compensate that shortfall. Meanwhile, China has emerged
as a serious client for the remaining treasure of the Arab world, a
cash client untainted by the exploitation and warfare brought to the
region by the West.
This
turn of events serves a dual purpose for the Chinese, for it allows
them to conserve the resources hidden within their vast geography while
competing for known supplies in other parts of the world. Among other
powers engaged in the end game, only the United States shows any
potential for having a noteworthy reserve, and a large part of that
lies inside the borders of a neighboring state. In point of fact, the
reserves at hand within US territory also includes those inside Alaska,
a holding of tenuous connection to the mainland. There are reserves
inside the Russian sphere of influence, but those lie inside states
with more natural affinity to the Chinese, and the Russian ability to
maintain its hegemony is seriously challenged by a faltering economy
and proximity to hostile elements among former client populations.
A
third factor in the changing balance of power is partially suggested
above in my comment about cultural affinity between the Chinese and
states within Central Asia who are assumed to be under the umbrella of
Russian or other Western interests. The fact is that Chinese successes
in manufacture and marketing will soon have far-reaching social effects
throughout Asia. As the Japanese passed down their manufacturing sector
to the Thais and Singaporeans, so the Chinese will create a new
lifestyle for hundreds of millions who have had little to no prior
contact with a cash economy. If handled properly, and we have no reason
to doubt that it will be, this opportunity to extend wealth to every
corner of Asia will result in a common mercantile culture that dwarfs
anything accomplished by the West.
The
Chinese are masters of the use of the full rice bowl, and are fated to
gather many loyal subjects in the march to primacy among nations. The
East has its own set of potentially destructive internal forces,
however, and any uncritical projection of a workers' Utopia would not
be well-advised. To preserve our original historical mission will
require great cunning and a ruthless execution of the plan, for we
shall soon be at war with an alien cultural paradigm that has little
patience with our methods and objectives.
There
is no appreciation for immortality of the individual spirit among these
peoples, only a yearning for self-annihilation. At best, they have a
mechanistic concept for recycling the soul through repeated lifetimes,
with each life a burden and the reward a reprieve by eternal death. As
for the matter of transcending the earth and moving among the stars to
our ultimate reunion with the Creators, there is no such agenda
articulated anywhere in the thought and mythology of the East. Yet the
time soon approaches when this enemy will constitute a clear majority
of all human life, and is very likely to control the bulk of the food
supply, most industrial resources and all the precious metals the
planet has to offer. The options open to us are few, and the road is a
hard one to travel. In our next encounter, we will address some of the
available options, including that of co-optation. For now, I leave you
with your thoughts, and with the hope that they may be productive. Good
night.
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The
time is growing near when we must again address issues of great
sensitivity. Only the most ineducable among you will have come this far
with me under the assumption that I can or shall reveal absolute
solutions to the matters introduced in these discussions, and only the
intellectually unimaginative could dare hope for a cheerful end to the
business of mankind. Certain apparently contradictory and
self-destructive manuevers are in the offing, and I propose to give you
a purchase on how you may position yourself during those confusing
times. It suffices to say that matters are seldom as they appear to the
uninformed viewer, and one may endure any betrayal of reason for so
long as there is some pattern of belief left unchallenged. This
psychospiritual phenomenon may be understood as the human emotion of
"hope."
Although
mankind once had a memory sufficient to warn him of long-term,
impending danger to his kind, and even a residual animal ability to
sense the immediate approach of catastrophe, these faculties no longer
serve him. As demonstrated recently, the degree of technical
sophistication currently available in our raising of the human biomass
to its next level of expression allows us to simply contradict diurnal
reality at will; and, thus, we have brought man as far from his
original animal instincts as could have been imagined by the original
designers. The feral sentient who once huddled in the darkness of his
ignorance and fears has been forever replaced, as long as my plans come
to a good end. Too many times in the past, we have approached this
level of achievement and seen our creation reverted to a mere bestial
nature during the transitional turbulence. Let us dedicate ourselves to
a successful completion.
During
the last meeting, I alluded to the necessity of instituting a
compelling, centralized voice of authority to aid in the rapid
dissemination of our orders. This voice shall be best designed as a
masculine one, and its vehicle will be a male who exhibits the physical
traits of a dominant, warlike human of leadership age. It is of the
utmost importance that he be perceived as a suitable father and
protector to his people, although his necessary actions shall very
frequently contradict that perception. Our preparations in the area of
perception management will do most of the work, but the figurehead
cannot be entirely left to chance.
Under
no circumstances would a female persona work in the upcoming scenario,
as the human female invokes inappropriate considerations whenever she
is allowed a public voice in the affairs of men. This is especially
true in times when thanatos must rule the stage, for the woman
automatically posits an unacceptable image by her given biological
function. The success of this transition will require the acceptance of
death on a previously unseen scale, and we do not want to introduce any
distractions from the impulse to satisfy that requirement.
If
the necessary discipline is to be maintained, child will return to the
control of his mother, woman will return to the control of her man and
man will return to the control of his masters. The experiment with
license is now at an end, its divisive and diffusing effects having
achieved the cultural plasticity we needed in order to induce mass
forgetting. We have divided and conquered. It is now time for us to
unite humanity and guide it in the way that it must go.
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Every
man knows the first truth of death, which is that it is better to bring
it than to receive it. This simple perception underlies much of man's
daily activity, and helps us understand his relationship to others of
his kind. Now it must be known to any child of a concious age that all
living things must die. When the first pet expires and is buried in the
back yard, a lifelong reflection upon one's mortality begins, and is
only finished at the moment of one's death. Man has a unique position
in the hierarchy of existence because of this, for he exists between
the animals, who do not reflect on their mortality, and the higher
beings, who no longer die. As alluded before, the moment of man's true
beginning on this earth was when he was thwarted in his reach for the
secret of immortality, and was abandoned to his own resources among the
animals. So it is to this day that man's life is substantially spent in
a reverie about death and its avoidance. After thousands of years, Man
finds himself back at the foot of the great tree, and the secret of
eternal life lies before him in the once-unbreakable code of his
manufacture. He is now so close to having a fluent understanding of our
secrets that we must choose where and by what means he may again be
diverted from the search, or whether he is to be allowed to complete
the circle of his existence. As for me and mine, the answer is a
qualified yes, but for our opponents, it is most certainly no.
Man
fears death almost as much as he loves it, and is forever suspended
between these poles of emotion. When he is most keenly sentient, it is
his nature to feel the immediate presence of his death nearby, and as
he approaches death, the more keenly he longs for his life. Without
danger and struggle, man falls into somnolence and lifelessness, much
as a dog or cat will do when left unobserved. Only knock at the door,
however, and man springs to life, just like the dog awakened from his
sleep, or a cat thrown out in the cold. It is the same for all, yet
every man imagines that his life and conciousness are unique, and that
his fears are unknown to any others of his kind. Even the scholars and
rulers are unable to simply articulate these negative thoughts. The
scholar pretends he is studying the code of life to cure some mere
disease or functional disability. He would be considered a crazed
renegade if he should plainly state that his research was directed
toward solving the riddle of death, and thereby restoring man to the
position he lost so long ago in Eden. The management must say it is
defending the moral rights of the pre-existent to deny further inquiry
into the nature of stem cells, while the rebellion must join the
scholar in his prattle about diseases. Make no mistake: the only
business afoot in all this is the business of immortality. The
management does not wish to have this information disseminated, and the
rebellion desires that it be so.
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When
it becomes necessary to awaken the vast population of man to a new task
of our devising, we must endure that brief moment he is fully alert and
barking at the door. In that state, he is more difficult to manage at
the mass level, as the alarm is first perceived as an individual call
to action, and the meta-coordination of individual activity is most
difficult. If we wait for a time, it is a simple matter to find men
still agitated by the knock, but unaware of whence this alarm came. As
a matter of fact, it is our observation that no more than ninety days
are required to divorce the memory of the stimulus from the sense of
alarm, and often enough, a serviceable disconnect can be achieved
within a very few days. The mood among the subjects will assume a state
of bemused agitation and non-specific anxiety that works to keep them
in a usable state of near-wakefulness. At that time, any story can be
introduced to explain the prevailing mood of threat and danger and,
with calibration, we can maintain this state over long periods of time.
This
being said, it must be understood that some principles relating to the
life and death of man have to remain hidden from him at all costs. I
say this with something of a humorous intent, for the truth is that man
does not acknowledge the nature of his being even when directly
confronted with the truth, and the most obvious fact can be concealed
from him with no particular concious effort. However, some anomalous
characters emerge from the masses on occasion who do partially
understand, and, to forestall having to deal with them , we prefer
discretion in public statements. Because each man is convinced of his
own uniqueness among living things, certain illusions must be preserved
in order to keep him usably calm. It hardly serves our purpose to have
widespread panic among the people because someone has told them lives
may be expended endlessly in the pursuit of any significant goal, even
that of eternal life. For that is the heart of the cruel paradox in
which we find ourselves with this experiment. Only through death can
the majority of humans serve the ends of the management, but the task
of pleasing our masters is not the only work we are engaged in. Having
dropped the spark among them, we must also tend to the evolution of
their human destiny to transcend those who created and abandoned them.
On the other hand, we also must accept that death serves us, and we
must do what we can to manage the upcoming slaughter of our experiment
in as postive a way as we can. Otherwise, we face the clear possibility
of losing all by trying to save too much.
For
those who find themselves among the immortals, the ferociousness with
which a man will defend his life is difficult to appreciate. He is
unaware of the cycle, however, and does not have our confidence and
memory to guide him through his death. To man, his single approaching
death is the only one of thousands he has endured that matters or is
acknowledged: he will never remember he has been alive before, nor
foresee that he will be alive again. For him, this is the only life for
all eternity, and he is more than a little insecure about the nature of
eternity because he has no way to imagine it. This finite timeline in
which he exists is not something we can actually understand, but we
have observed it long enough to make certain assumptions. It appears to
have the same effect on man as does a cage, but he seldom sees the bars
of this temporal confine and so struggles less often against them.
Because he doesn't see the trap he has fallen into, it is easier to
manage him - boredom and inanition are far more useful and less taxing
of our resources than the anger and dissatisfaction which would
inevitably follow if he were fully concious of his condition. As a
caged man will finally lie down to sleep his time away behind forgotten
bars, so the time-bound man will foresake his awareness to the comfort
of daydreaming. But if his miserable, pointless existence is challenged
with deadly threats, his senses awaken with a keen appreciation for
that which lies inside the hated bars, and he will defend his cage to
the end.
If
there is a starting point for bringing man face to face with death, it
lies in this will to survive beyond his competitors' efforts to
overcome him. The mildest of men will rise to murder when his seeds are
threatened, or when he is given charge of seed that is alien to his
own. Man understands in his biology that the survival of his unique set
of instructions is dependent upon no code of morality, even though he
cannot conceive of immortality in any other way. I do not speak of a
concious understanding which would allow a man to speak coherently of
his reasons for surviving in this way, of course, for that is not the
nature of biological imperative. If asked, only a madman would admit to
the true extent of his ability to shed the blood of that which is not
himself. He will slaughter his brother's children if they stand in the
way of the happiness and survival of his own, even though he might give
his own life in the place of his brother's. It is at this level of his
being that we must address man when we prepare him for the millions and
millions of deaths to come. If we stop short of their survival terror,
our subjects will be too weak to withstand the emotional and rational
shocks that will accompany the sublimation of their race. The problem
is how to achieve that level of intensity without precipitating a total
destruction of this species, and possibly many others as well. It is a
foolish man who does not notch the tree before it falls, and not much
time is left before the chopping starts.
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