We’re being trained to be compliant and loyal to oppression, tyranny all day, 24/7, from the cradle to the grave.
One major problem today stems from the unpleasant fact that most people just read/watch establishment media. They get a beyond stilted, false view of the world. Information is power. Withholding it is, too.
But the most important part is to instill a sense of obedience and loyalty to the system in a given population from an early age. Teach them as a group and individuals to follow a massive set of meaningless rules a given society could do well without.
Walk on green light, use a seatbelt, be polite and respectful to an impolite and disrespectful elder, don’t pee or fuck in a public place, don’t break the speed limit, don’t download copyrighted material, don’t read or watch or spread seditious works or «damaging information», don’t do drugs, and countless similar actions, be a «responsible» citizen, as it is defined in hilarious ways by the system. Slowly but surely, you’re losing your ability to think and act for yourself, to make truly independent decisions, and eventually everything you’re told from above makes sense, no matter how irrational and unreasonable it is.
Yes, it’s actually very important for a given person’s independence and development as a human being to deliberately break all those rules, regulations and laws right from the start in that person’s life, and never give in. It’s important and even crucial to keep breaking them throughout your life.
The Law is made by the rich and powerful, to benefit the rich and powerful.
When people ask how I can criticize «our great democracy», I always ask what democracy.
The western dictatorship got lots of handy, meaningless buzzwords and accusations available when dealing with true criticism and opposition, all of them an integrated part of establishment propaganda supporting the tyranny and designed to distract people from obvious realities.
The conveyors of those instructions aren’t just obvious figures of authority in a given society, but very often ordinary men and women very eager to take part in upholding law and order. Those people, call them human peacocks or tape recorders, are hardly doing anything more than to replay, echo mindlessly what they’re told from above.
Today’s tyrannical society and systems have lots of watchdogs, or sentinels, if you will, placed on strategic places. Such snarling watchdogs are mostly present in the police, army and media, and among politicians, naturally. They are the first and last line of defense in case something in their eyes goes terribly wrong, and their lies and raw brutality towards those thinking and acting differently are exposed for what it is. But every single profession is fairly well represented in this myriad of tyranny’s eager collaborators.
But the most important watchdogs are those we call the «ordinary men and women». They are the foot soldiers in the war, those fighting in the gray daily life to suppress free thought and action. In every little conversation they defend what at any time is the average, run of the mill view… whatever it might be. And if anyone dares to question their narrow perception of reality? Then they go to war for their mindless «thoughts», «attitudes» and «beliefs».
Like when we true rebels and independent human beings defend the protesters beaten up by the police in the most recent «riot». When we speak about the entire, current «human» society as inherently flawed, as an inhuman horror of the first grade. When we expose the mindless tape recorders for what they are. They react instinctively with anger and even a kind of rage, of course, because they know, at least deep down that we are telling the truth.
The average citizen in this modern, «soft tyranny» defends the most outrageous lie and deception because they are taught, trained to do so from an early age, and they never wake up from the bliss of blind obedience to the system. It goes beyond brainwashing, really.
«Soft tyranny» = misnomer.
The whole statement about "western values" has always been total bullshit, propaganda, sold to a pacified population.
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«The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed» - Steve Biko
Yep I agree. This is a very important article. Thanks so much.