From: jkreznar@ininx.UUCP (John E. Kreznar)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: TELEVISION: The Ultimate Weapon of Mass Enslavement
Summary: shooting the messenger
Keywords: television, mass hypnosis, mass hysteria, mass enslavement
Date: 4 Sep 92 06:26:56 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Independence Industries, Los Angeles

In article <1992Aug28.194436.14810@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, jad@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (John DiNardo) writes:

> Our citizenry's growing allegiance to a strident, militaristic state
> power structure is the fruit of television's systematic, perennial
> inculcation of guileful mythology upon the American psyche.

Close, but no cigar.

To scapegoat an elite conspiracy is like shooting the messenger who bears bad
news.  While the "messenger" in this case (a politician or a bureaucrat or some
such) is indeed culpable, he is a mere agent.  Shooting him leaves his
principals unharmed, and they will simply replace him with another.

The principals are our neighbors, a hundred million strong.  A billion if you
count the whole world.  These are people who may be decent in face-to-face
dealings with others but who unthinkingly perpetuate the enslavement of their
neighbors by receiving stolen property in the form of tax-funded benefits
willfully accepted and who empower the agents of the enslavement by regularly
voting in their elections, waving the nukes of the State at one another from the
privacy of the polling place.  This "democratic political government" aka
"tyranny of the majority" is the cancer likely to permanently eclipse
civilization on earth.

> The first steps in salvaging liberty are to dispel
> the media smokescreen and to rescue from TV-imposed exile an entire
> people's capacity for free thought.

Agreed.

> Only then will it be possible
> for the People of the United States to recognize and confront a
> chronic cancer upon the human race.

...the chronic cancer being that they are "of the United States" (or some other
nation-state) rather than free thinkers.

> That is, the neurotic greed for 
> power and wealth that has always driven the few to enslave the many.

Well, it always _used_ to.  But with the ascendancy of democratic political
government in the past couple hundred years, it is now the _many_ enslaving the
many --- tyranny of the majority.  Before that, the oppressor could be
identified and thence toppled.  The scary thing about our present circumstance
is that the oppressor is everywhere, enormously complicating defenses.

> If we refuse to recognize the universality of 
> greed and power-lust that infects the soul of all humankind --

...and now has its ultimate expression in democratic political government, then
we may fail to recognize that tyranny of the majority has the power to
permanently eclipse civilization, terminating the solar system's experiment with
intelligent life.

        Relations among people to be by mutual consent, or not at all.
 |  Voting in government elections, or petitioning government, or willfully  |
 |  accepting government ``benefits'' when it's feasibly avoidable (thereby  |
 |  generating demand for taxation), accelerate the supplanting of personal  |
 |  choice by collective dictate,  making these most serious crimes against  |
 |  humanity.  ---John E. Kreznar, jkreznar@ininx.com, uunet!ininx!jkreznar  |
   It got so cold last winter, I saw a voter with his hand in his own pocket!
-- 
        Relations among people to be by mutual consent, or not at all.
         ---John E. Kreznar, jkreznar@ininx.com, uunet!ininx!jkreznar
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