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Invisible
Guns:
st
21 Century methods
of Social Control

By J.R. Johnson
© 2009
dawsonrebel@hotmail.com

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 Introduction

When you look back over history there is one issue that appears over and over again. It is
the question of control. The goal of every organization is to control its members. The most
powerful organization is government. Any leader that wants to stay in power must not only gain
control, but he must also hold onto it. For centuries the easiest way to maintain control was “at
the point of a gun.” For the most part this method works fairly well. It has its drawbacks. First,
people know they are being controlled. They can see the gun. Second, if you use the gun, you
create martyrs. Martyrs inspire others to resist. History is the story of the development of
invisible guns. But always, behind the invisible resides the real gun.

1. The opposing force to the gun has come from Christians and the Bible. True
freedom is a Biblical concept. What most people call freedom is a variation of
anarchy. True freedom requires self-control and a standard of conduct. This is
what the Bible provides. What Christians provide is the incentive to resist the
gun. Most people, given the consequences of dying, would rather be slaves than
dead. Without a belief in heaven, there is fear that resisting may bring about
consequences most serious.

2. Even as warfare has evolved over the centuries, so have the methods of control
evolved. Leaders have sought to refine their techniques. This refining has been
in the area of disguise. How do you hide your gun? If somehow, a dictator can
come up with a weapon that works upon the insides of the person, then control
will be much easier to maintain. Many psychological studies are for the
development of techniques to help individuals behave in a certain way.

3. The great fear of the dictator who lives by the gun is that someone will come
along with a bigger or better gun. This is called a revolution. While the masses
may be told that they are fighting for freedom, they are really just fighting for a
change of hands that hold the guns. No sooner is the revolution over then
someone else is now pointing the gun at the people. He now must maintain
control. And the cycle starts all over.

4. The mission in today’s world is to identify the new methods of control and see
how they are being used to maintain the current power structure. The new guns
are mental and social. They are invisible. And the idea of freedom has been
lost in our culture. One of the weapons being used is the control of language.
Freedom has been given new meanings. Freedom now means personal anarchy
or the freedom to do what I want as long as I do not hurt anyone else.

5. Into this mix of freedom versus control by the state, we have the Church.
Throughout history the Church has sided first with control and then with the state.

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 Any good dictator wants the Church to support his power structure. Any
organization such as the Church wants to perpetuate itself. Given this, the Church
not only will often side with the dictator but will imitate the state in its desire to
maintain control. The alliance of the dictator and the “pope” means the ultimate
in social control.

6. The purpose of this study is to trace of evolution of the new forms of social
control that are being developed and to show how these new forms show up in
issues. Modern political has fostered the development of a whole new system of
governing. I will show how this new system has been developed so thoroughly
that the need for a religious alliance has been eliminated. The dictator’s need for
a pope has been replaced by a new religion controlled by the dictator. So many
of the conflicts of today are nothing but the old faiths fighting for their share of
control in a world that finds them unnecessary.

7. One important step is left. The dictator has been replaced by the caring
shepherd. In surveys today, people are asked if they think the current candidate
or the current administration cares for them. In the past the measure of good
government was the fact that it left people alone. In current thought, freedom
does not mean being left alone from the government, but being cared for from
birth to death. The idea of care is that it frees us from the burdens of life, so that
we are now free to be our true selves. Freedom at one time meant the ability to
choose one’s dependencies. Now we have been freed from all dependencies
except one, the good shepherd who cares for us.

In this new world that we live in, the description of reality has changed. In the past the
ultimate description of an age has been its theology. There was a set of beliefs that gave people a
working knowledge of the world as it was thought to exist, how to navigate though that world,
and the limits that had been placed on mankind. Whenever there is a new understanding, there is
what has been called a revolution: The Exodus of Israel from Egypt, the Crucifixion of Jesus the
Messiah, the Reformation and Renaissance, the French Revolution, and finally the Socialist-
Communist Revolution. Each revolution presented a new understanding. Each age had a new
theology. What we have been witnessing over the last two hundred years has been the
replacement of the Christian Reformation theology with the out workings of the French
Revolution.
There have been three trends over the last two hundred years. There has been a whole
new description of reality as gradually a new theology has replaced the heritage of John Calvin
and his fellow reformers. There has been a series of crises that have worked to instill the new
theology into American culture. Most people do not give up old beliefs easily. There must be
events which show that the old ways do not work and that a new understanding is necessary.
Into these trends have been the attempts by Christians to keep adjusting their beliefs so that they
do not appear obsolete in the new world. We are now at that point where the Christians and their
theology can no longer stand the scrutiny of the modern mind. I believe these three trends are
heading for a showdown. One more crisis is needed to see what the next theology is going to

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look like. Since the first draft, the events of 9/11 indicate that this may be the necessary crisis to
change forever the nature of Christianity.
There is a great silent revolution going on right now. Using words from the past, we are
moving into the age of The New Tyranny. But it is not called that. It is called by various
names sounding like The Great Society: The New Freedom, The Great Deal, or The New
World Order. Regardless of the name, we are experiencing a revolution and the management of
that revolution is what the tension and stress we feel in current American politics. Since my first
draft of this book, the world has experienced another great theological shift and psychological
advancement initiated by the events of September 11, 2001. The world is learning that the
ultimate invisible gun may have been fired during this time.

The development of the invisible gun is covered in the first section. The second section
attempts to show how the last two hundred years of American history have had as its goals the
development of a new civilization based upon the invisible gun. The third section will show how
the new invisible gun has required the destruction of both Christianity and Western Christianity.
Just as the events of the 14th and 15th centuries led up to the Reformation, so the last two hundred
years have led up to another revolution. This age may come to be known as the great age of
government and business, or it may come to be known as the age that destroyed the traditions of
the past.

How is society changed from one civilization to another? This is not easy. The masses
do not give up their cherished beliefs. Those who wish to change a society must manipulate
events so that the old ways of doing things do not satisfy the masses. There are many ways this
can be accomplished, and some of the techniques used to destroy Western Civilization are listed
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 THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES

The following are the techniques which the new leader must use to gain and
maintain power. Most manuals describe the world the way we want it to work.
The techniques that now must be used to rule are not the ones we have been taught.
But we do not live in that world. Facing the new world honestly will help us
understand the way we really do live and why we feel as we do.
This section is written as if written to a future leader. The purpose is to illuminate
the techniques that are being used. The best way to do that is to act as if these techniques
are the best and only way to rule over the new world that is arising from the ashes of
Christianity and the Western Civilization. It is a guidebook for the future shepherd, but it
reality, it is an alarm for the sheep. By seeing how the new world civilization operates, it
will be easier to examine the events that have led up to the current situation.

1 ENCOURAGE ROLE PLAYING

The point of a gun approach will get the shepherd in trouble too easy. A method must be
found to only use the gun as a threat of last resort. People resist the direct confrontation but can
be fooled into going along with the shepherd’s program through the use of subtle techniques.
The first technique is one most easily adopted. A system must be developed that encourages
compliant behavior without any obvious beliefs attached. The old saying is that people will go
along to get along. This does work.

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 The term used to describe this technique is attitude-discrepant behavior. We see this
all the time in our jobs. We are expected to act a certain way on the job. The boss will say, “I
don’t care what you believe or what you do off the job, but when you are here you will think and
act a certain way.” It doesn’t take too many job losses for us to figure out that earning a living
requires certain compromises. This behavior is taught in the schools and most learn it before
their first job. By the way, that is why so many of us growing up have dreamed about jobs that
required no compromises. Kids dream of being a rock musician or star athlete or novel writer.
Any job that gives us the freedom from social control. There are not many job openings in those

...Philip Zimbardo assigned similar groups of people to differing roles. In a simulated prison
constructed in the basement of Stanford University’s psychology department, he subjected
some decent intelligent college men to important features of the prison situation. Among this
volunteer group, half, by a flip of a coin, he designated guards. He gave them uniforms, billy
clubs, and whistles and instructed them to enforce certain rules. The other half, the prisoners,
were locked in cells and made to wear humiliating outfits.
After little more than a day, the guards and prisoners, and even the experimenters, got
caught up in the situation. The guards devised cruelly degrading routines. The prisoners
broke down, rebelled, or became apathetic. ... There developed, reported Zimbardo, ‘growing
confusion between reality and illusion, between role-plying and self-identity....’
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Myers, p. 203.

areas, but the dream persists.

Eventually, we all learn on-the-job behavior. At first we will joke off the job about what
suckers our fellow workers are. We look at the older workers and think they have sold out to the
system. And of course, we will never do that. But in time, we do. Tests have been conducted to
prove this type of change. For example, people are asked to listen to a speech that goes against
what they believe. Others were given an outline and asked to give a speech that goes against
their beliefs. Those asked to give the speech were more likely to change their beliefs than those
who just sat and listened. The first group had their beliefs confronted directly while the second
group was asked to pretend to believe something they did not. Acting as if I believe something
will result in believing the same thing.
I worked for more than twenty years at a major corporation (more than 200,000
employees). It did not take long to discover what I called the twenty-year syndrome. Those who
worked there for a number of years took on the company image. The values and beliefs of the
company became part of their personality and reason for living. It was often difficult to get these
workers to retire. The company had become such a part of their world view, that leaving the
company caused large amounts of anxiety. The workers were often told to leave their beliefs and
problems at the gate and just do their job. To not bring any outside baggage on the job with you.
There are consequences for those who do not do this. It is not always being fired (that involves
too much paper work) but every corporation has jobs inside the company know as ‘Siberia.’ The
persons ending up there are to learn ‘attitude adjustment.’
There is a law in our brain that wants to please others. We actually have to be provoked

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in order to resist. Here again, another study points this out. A test subject is given a brief
biography of some person. He is then asked to repeat the biography to others. If the test subject
is told to repeat the biography to someone who likes the person described, the test subject will
repeat the biography emphasizing the positive aspects of the person. If the test subject is told to
repeat the biography to someone who dislikes the person described, the subject will repeat the
negative aspects of the story. We all just naturally want to please.
There is one more thing about the above test. When the test subjects were asked later to
recall the biography, the person remembered not the real biography but the one they gave. The
ones who gave a positive talk remembered positive things, and the ones who gave a negative talk
remembered negative things. This is a very important principle in social control. Avoid
attacking someone directly. All you have to do is develop a system where people are required to
act a certain way or speak a certain way. In time you will have won a convert without having
had to use your gun. And better yet, you will not only have gotten control and with results you
want, but you will have eliminated the need to use your gun. You will have gained a convert
without any mass rallies or indoctrination
courses.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in
In the current political environment,
practice, though not in principle.
there is a large emphasis on politically correct
Jane Austen, English novelist
behavior, especially when one acts in some
public arena. The individual is said to be free
inside his own brain, but when he expresses himself around others he is to behave in a manner
that would offend no one. While it is popular in some circles to make fun of the many politically
correct positions, they do serve a purpose. Just as a person is to develop corporate correct
behavior while on the job, everyone is expected to behave in a certain way when they are in
public places. In times past one was to behave in a civil manner in public, that is no longer as
important as having the correct political verbal behavior while in public. For example, on
college campuses, unruly behavior is not punished as harshly as politically incorrect behavior. A
student who graduates is not only there to learn a profession, but to learn the new proper ways to
behave in the new world culture.

T The leader will encourage everyone to behave one way in public while maintaining
the primacy of private beliefs. Few will realize that their public behavior will either
warp or destroy their private beliefs.

2 CREATE INTERNAL CONFLICTS

A second way of achieving obedience, without using the political gun, is to create a
situation that results in the subject experiencing internal conflict. The term here is cognitive
dissonance. Just as people naturally want to please others, they also naturally want to achieve an
internal harmony. Our brain resists doing what we do not like doing, do not believe in doing, or
doing things we believe are wrong. If a situation requires us to violate one of our internal codes
of conduct, internal tension is created. We will act in such a way as to lower the tension.

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Despite what we may think of others, we do not like being labeled a hypocrite. There seems to
be a universal disposition to be honest and be
the person we say we are.
...when people behave in ways that are
This tendency can be used to control
discrepant with their attitudes, they often go
people and change them to the shepherd’s
on to change those attitudes...
program without having to create a direct
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Brehm and
confrontation. If an individual can be made
Kassin, p. 475.
to act in a matter that is inconsistent with
what he believes, he has opened himself up to
control. Now there are several ways to
relieve the discomfort. When persons believe one thing and are forced to behave in a way that
contradicts their beliefs, what should a person do ? This is not only an uncomfortable position, it
questions one’s personal beliefs. Most people expect their philosophies to function without
conflicts.
Fundamentalists believe in an Anti-Christ. They look for some dictator to require them
to take a number and serve him instead of the God of the Bible. During the reign of President
Franklin Roosevelt, all adult Americans were given a Social Security number. Many were
uneasy about taking a number but they were assured that the number was just for their retirement
insurance and would not be used for any other purpose. As the government programs expanded,
the Social Security number became an important part of one’s identity. In fact, just as predicted
in the Bible, a person found it impossible to have a job, bank, or live without the number. The
Christian had already gone along initially, despite misgivings. By the time the Fundamentalists
realized what was happening to them, it was too late. They found themselves in a situation
where if they acted on their beliefs, they would no longer be able to function in society.
He was acting in a cognitive dissonant way. This created tension. Something way had to
be found to lower this tension. Either he had to change his beliefs or change his behavior. There
was too much to lose in changing his behavior, so his beliefs had to change. This will lower
tension and help the person adjust to modern society. In an effort to further lessen tension, the
person opens himself up to continued acts of obedience. We often are not even aware of the
thought processes. But it goes on and cognitive dissonance is doing its work. The individual
will usually adopt the set of beliefs that brings the least discomfort. The new leader recognizes
that when individuals find themselves in a dissonant, most go along to get along. Most will
choose the belief that causes the least trouble.

T The new leader will never attack most people’s beliefs openly. He will merely allow
people to have two levels of belief. One set of beliefs for private and one set for
functioning in the new society. In time, this dissonance will do its work.

3 MANUFACTURE SOCIAL TENSION

One of the prime motives of human behavior is to reduce tension. We not only seek to be
rational, we not only seek to go along with the crowd, we feel we must reduce tension in our

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lives. It is one of the mysteries of human beings that tension causes anxiety which causes
distress. We do not like to be in situations that cause tension. We may run away if we can. If no
easy and permanent escape is possible, we seek ways to reduce the tension. One of the easiest
ways to change someone’s behavior without him being aware of it is to create situations for the
subject that cause tension. Most people will react in predictable patterns.
For example, suppose a government wants to get people to move off of farms into the
city. The point of the gun approach, knowing the independence of farmers, would probably
create an armed revolt or at least armed resistence. Propaganda could be used but this would
only draw attention to your plan. People may do what you want, but they might resist. And if
they do resist, they will hate the source of the propaganda. This is where, what I call the tight

To an outside observer an individualist society seems in the grip of some strange

obsession. It ceaseless agitation strikes him as a kind of madness. And, indeed, action is
basically a reaction against loss of balance–a flailing of the arms to regain one’s balance. To
dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. And if, as Napoleon wrote to Carnot,
‘the art of government is not to let men go stale,’ then it is essentially an art of unbalancing.
This is particularly true in an industrialized society which requires a population disposed to
continued exertion and alertness. The crucial difference between the Communist regimes and
the individualist Occident is thus perhaps in the methods of unbalancing by which their
masses are kept active and striving.
THE ORDEAL OF CHANGE, Eric Hoffer, p. 27.

shoe approach, the indirect method will work wonders.

Situations are created artificially or ways are found to use natural situations such as a
drought or hurricane or fire etc. For example, by creating a situation of tight credit you can
cause tension that cannot always be traced back to its source. There are almost innumerable
conflicts that can be created. And by alternating the conflicts no one will suspect they are from
the same source. One year of tight credit, one year increased taxes, one year a crippling strike
that affects farmers, or one year a monopoly may cause wholesale prices of farm products to fall.
Because the list can be extended and rotated, there will never seem to be a common source of
trouble.
Each situation creates tension. People can only live for so long in a situation where they
do not feel comfortable. After awhile, their resistence breaks down. And here is the beauty of
this situation. The very government that in one way or another that caused the problem can now
launch the trigger. Tension exists. Something must happen to motivate the person to change. A
government subsidy of city housing, of job training, or of a farm buy out programs will be the
necessary triggers to get people to move in the direction desired. And the beauty of this method
is that not only can the shepherd achieve his desired results, he can blame innocent parties of
causing the problems from which the shepherd offers a solution. How perfect.
One of the least written about aspects of the settlement of the American West, was the
role of the Civil War. Those who chose not to fight in the war, or who did not want to live in an
area near the battlefields, often migrated to the turbulent West. While under normal conditions,

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many would choose to remain safely where they lived, in times of social tension, the West took
on a whole new meaning. The possibility of escaping the war made the dangers of the migration
seem less severe. While people thought their moving was their own decision, it was actually one
of the results of the war that served the government’s desire to settle the land. And the
government appeared as the good shepherd by offering free land to those willing to risk their
lives and fortunes in the journey.

T The leader can accomplish his goal most directly through the use of indirect
tensions. In difficult times, the shepherd is allowed to help his people to the desired
land of tension release. A destination designed by the leader.

4 ESTABLISH CLASS CONFLICTS

If the above social tension approach is used properly, a secondary result can be achieved
at the same time. Once you have created tension, someone must be blamed. Strikes can be
blamed on those greedy workers which the government is working hard to control, or
monopolies can be blamed on greedy businessmen. Even natural disasters can be blamed on
God. The most famous use of this method was the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was used by
philosophers to show how God had no concern for His people or His planet. We are alone down
here and it is up to us to make the best of it. No situation is above being blamed on someone and
it is best to blame someone who interferes
with the shepherds plans.
Those who hold and those who are without
Thus we come to the plan made
property have ever formed distinct interests
famous by Marx, but actually used by every
in society. Those who are creditors, and
shepherd that knows how to rule. Wherever
those who are debtors, fall under a like
two or more people gather together, there will
discrimination. A landed interest, a
be divisions of class. Ever watch kids on the
manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest,
playground. You will see constantly arguing
a moneyed interest, with many lesser
and fighting. One of the reasons is that the
interests, grow up of necessity in civilized
kids are establishing class relationships.
nations, and divide them into different
Because society doesn’t impose class on the
classes, actuated by different sentiments and
play field, the kids must establish it
views.
themselves. Every society distributes wealth,
THE FEDERALIST, James Madison, x.
prestige, honors, education, and a host of
other benefits unevenly. Even if people were
equal in every way except our difference in
how we choose to spend our time, we would end up with classes. But as it is with so many
differences of people and so many choices to be made, differences happen without any outside
interference.
Because classes are so natural and result without any outside interference, they are the
ideal weapons in the shepherd’s arsenal. The reason classes are natural is elaborated in most
introductory sociology texts:

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 (1) Positions in society must be filled.
(2) There is a hierarchy of positions.
(3) Society runs most efficiently when the most qualified people are in each position.
(4) The most qualified are motivated by being offered greater rewards.
To this natural order of things, is added the philosophy that once men gain power they
will use power for their own gain, they will develop a philosophy to justify their position, and
they will organize society to perpetuate their rule. Once this philosophy is in position you have
the belief that perpetual warfare is the mark of all societies. There can be no peace for those in
power will be resisted by those out of power. If the out -of-power gain power, they will now act
as the “in’s” of power and the war continues. This is one of the most potent weapons for those
who are out of power and wish gain power.
Where people are not class conscious,
The great Author distributed the ranks and
class consciousness can be easily created in
offices in men in order to materially benefit
the name of eliminating classes or
and comfort, that one man should plow,
discrimination. All that is necessary is to
another thresh, another grind, another labor at
start programs that favor people of a
the forge, another knit or weave, another sail,
particular class. This is all done in the name
another trade.
of equality. Once the program is in place and
SERMONS, Isaac Darrow, 1679 A.D.
helping a favored class, those outside the plan
will maintain that they are being
discriminated against. This is the perfect
result of a perfect program. Where no tensions or very few tensions existed, now new conflicts
are born. Of course the leader must deny that his program had anything to do with the new
uproar. At the worst, he can maintain that his efforts to help end discrimination only proved how
deep the problem runs. This will, of course, call for new programs to promote a classless
society. This has a duel result. The more conflict calls for a more powerful leader and he calls
for more programs to further his agenda. And it is ironic that now both groups are looking to the
leader to solve the problems that he initiated. Could anything be more perfect?

T The leader is aware that class and special interests are a natural part of all societies.
However, these natural divisions can be used for the leader’s purposes if he plants
the idea that the good society which he desires will be without divisions. All that is
required is a good leader with good laws for all get their share of whatever their
special interests desire.

5. MAINTAIN IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICTS

The next step in maintaining power and control is to develop an ideology that can be
exploited for one’s personal gain. Rather than seeing society as an outcome of natural law, the
evolution of a common law, or the outcome of a society’s free choices, society is viewed as the
result of a war. The victorious side has made society the way it is. There is nothing natural
about it at all. It is all a construct. Again, rather than maintain power through the point of a gun,
encourage people to develop ideologies that pit one side against another. Even better, develop

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 The spirit of party serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public
administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles
the animosity of one part against another; foments occasional riot and insurrection.
Farewell Address, George Washington, Sept 17, 1796.

several ideologies where no group can maintain control. The result is a constant battle.
This can be seen in the meaningless battles between the Republicans and the Democrats.
Very few could even describe the ideological content of their platforms with any detail. Even
more, there seems to be little philosophical consistencies in their beliefs. There is an ideological
conflict which serves to place people in two groups. It serves to divert everyone’s energies to the
conflicts that are chosen by the two parties. Human energies are wasted fighting battles which
often have the same result. Real issues are called divisive. The battles between the two parties,
maintains the impression of solutions being concluded through some national consensus.
An important corollary of this is that once people become engaged in ideological
struggles, they lose perspective on their own personal interests. If people in a society do not
have an ideological war, they will tend to divide up pursuing their personal interests. Parents
may demand control of the schools. Communities may demand to set up their own ethical
standards. Localities may want to establish their own legal system. This is bad in the long run.
It also leads to forms of localism, which is contrary to any leaders goal to lead a unified nation.
The masses will tend to regard this pursuit as a right synonymous with freedom and will fight to
maintain it. This makes it difficult to get them to pursue great national and social goals that
every leader must have if he is to maintain power. How can a leader be a leader if he has no
pressing agenda? He becomes nothing more than a symbol of the nation such as the Statue of
Liberty.
Also, by diverting people’s attention
There can not a great judgment befall a
to the various ideologies, there will be the
country than such a dreadful spirit of division
channeling of desires. Most, except for a few
as rends a government into two distinct
deviants, will focus on achieving their goals
people, and makes them greater strangers and
through the accepted channels. By
more averse to one another than if they were
controlling the ideologies there is less chance
actually two different nations.
the people will ask embarrassing questions of
THE SPECTATOR, Joseph Addison, July
its leadership. An example in our current
24, 1711.
society would be the Federal Reserve System.
Because all major parties accept it as a fact of
life, no one asks if we really need it. No one
asks if there are cheaper ways for a government to form money. No one will ask if there are
persons making money off of society that is not necessary. No one will ask if the reserve system
is used to keep people in debt. In ideology that represents the above questions has the potential
to threaten the power structure.

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 We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Horace Mann, American educator.

The old saying about ‘divide and conquer’ is just part of this device. It includes the idea
of developing false divisions amongst the masses. This is seen in the fanatical loyalty people
have for their local sports team. This loyalty to constructed causes is used to create false
loyalties to unimportant political battles. When all is said and done, it really does not matter at
all whether one’s team wins or loses. It is just a game. So it is with the masses and the
ideological issues which the good leader provides for his people. For example, the only reason
abortion is such a divisive issue is that the government insists that one law apply to every locality
in the nation. If each community could set their own policy, it would not engender the political
war that is seen today.

T The good leader realizes that when the masses are made to hate each other, they will
look to the good shepherd to protect them from their enemies. Without such petty
hatreds, a strong leader is not necessary.

6 INFORMATIONAL OVERLOAD SHOULD BE CONTINUOUS

Life is complex. The average person requires leaders to simplify life. This simplified
life is presented as an ideology. This is good so far. The goal is to prevent new ideologies
outside of the shepherd’s control. Here again, the shepherd can do this through the point of a
gun. But censorship draws attention to the ideas that the shepherd wants to suppress. Censoring
an idea is like shooting your enemy. It makes a martyr out of your enemy and projects his views
into the limelight. A system must be developed that censors ideas without drawing attention to
the ideas being suppressed. That old rule applies here--that the best place to hide something is to
hide it in plane sight.
There is an old story of a frontier
What is all our knowledge worth? We do
prospector that went into the woods to look
not even know what the weather will be
for gold. He marked trees along the way so
tomorrow.
he could find his way back. Another
Berthold Auerbach, 1865.
prospector working the same area did not
want the first prospector to find his way back.
If he discovers gold others would follow and
the original prospector would be out of luck. So he is behind the interloper. He could not erase
the marks on the trees. So he merely marked every tree. This is an example of an information
overload. If you cannot control information, or wish not to control it because of the down side of
censorship, merely release a tidal wave of information. All but the few will be so confused that
they will give up all attempts at independent thought and rely on others to do their thinking for
them.

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 In our society there are so many
When a man’s knowledge is not in order,
sources, so many competing ideas, and such
the more of it he has the great will be his
constant background noise, that the whole
confusion.
world becomes blotted out. People retreat to
Hebert Spencer, 1873.
their own private space where they can
control the flow of information. And private
lives do not interfere with the shepherd in the
pursuit of his goals. Even if some individual wanted to oppose the shepherd he would just be
adding to the overall noise. Good ideas can
be most easily defeated by being buried
under an avalanche of bad ideas. I cannot Everyone understands the need for change in
emphasize it enough. The best methods the abstract, but on the day-to-day level
remain invisible. The shepherd must appear people are creatures of habit. Too much
as the victim just like everybody else. He innovation is traumatic, and will lead to
can say, we all know that life is tough, that revolt. If you are new to a position of power,
things are out of control, but that he is doing or an outsider trying to build a power base,
his best to just keep a lid on the chaos. make a show of respecting the old way of
Only when people are lost do they doing things. If change is necessary, make it
want a road map or stop to ask someone for feel like a gentle improvement on the past.
directions. This is an important point to
remember for the new shepherd. It is vital THE 48 LAWS OF POWER–p. 392
that the masses learn to think of themselves
as lost in a sea of facts. The events of the
day must appear to be a mixture of the
antics of mad men. The masses must see confusion in everyone’s faces in a world that appears
to be out of control. The masses must learn that they are lost and in need of a road map and a
person who knows the directions. The new shepherd should present the image of a man who has
the world’s experts at his beckoning. The new leader should appear as the only one who has the
power and the resources to guide the masses through the chaos of life daily confusion.

T The new leader must appear as the wise old philosopher. He must appear as the
modern guru. He is the high priest of the new secular religion. The more the leader
can imitate the gods of the ancients, the more he will be allowed to impose his will
upon the people.

7 OBEDIENCE IS BEST GAINED IN INCREMENTS

Just as people resist the point of a gun, they will also resist big changes. Change that
occurs in such small steps that either no one notices, or each step is so small it is not worth
resisting, is the most worthy goal of every director of control or shepherd. A good example in
the United States was the introduction of the income tax. If the bill had started out with today’s
current rates of taxation, the bill never would have passed. It started out as a law that would only

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tax the rich and it would only be one or 2 per cent. Sounds like a good law. There is no reason
to oppose that. With every crisis, the definition of rich grew broader and the percentage kept
going up. Today, if you are not starving, you are rich and must pay your dues. And at this point,
people have become so adjusted to paying and so used to telling the government all of their
financial secrets, that any revolt is just talk. The same procedure is
used in brain washing by the Communists. They will get the prisoners to comply in very little
things at first. After they have got people to comply with their prison guards or overseers, they
gradually go from meaningless compliance to getting the patient to submit in more and more
meaningful ways. In time, the prisoner is writing letters condemning his friends or letters
justifying the very people who hold him a prisoner. This same principle can be used by people
who want to accomplish anything. You climb a mountain one step at a time. If you just take one
step at a time, you will eventually accomplish your goal. It sounds nice, but it does not work for
people unsure of their destination. The shepherd says: “Just take this little step.” Now take this
little step. The citizen never stops to think of the final destination that all of the little steps lead.
The leader knows where those little steps are leading.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and
from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and
procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where to stop. Many
a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the
time.
MURDER AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS, Thomas de Quincey.

To show how far things can go is just to consider what has happened to privacy. The
American trait of privacy has almost been destroyed by gradualism. A shepherd cannot rule as
long as he does not know what his people are doing. Privacy must be destroyed. We are to the
point today where just about every financial transaction you do is recorded somewhere. All of
your phone calls are recorded. Your internet activity can be monitored. People will tell
government officials at schools or clinics all about their sex life and other private details. About
the only thing done in private must be done alone behind a locked door with no electronic hook
ups. And if someone wants to, by using special infrared sensors, you are not even private then.

T The leader can do just about anything if he is patient enough. The story of the
tortoise and the hare should be his example. The image for the new leader should
be of a deep thinker who only takes action when events force him to move. The man
of action must appear to be a man of thought.

8 GOALS CAN BE ATTAINED THROUGH SOCIAL INSECURITY

Words tell us a lot about ourselves. Social security is something the government is

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claims to provide. But social security is something inside of us when our society is functioning
properly. When individuals have proper relationships with small local groups, they have social
security. It used to be that people belonged to churches, local school organizations, local labor
unions, and a whole host of local support groups: Groups that actually governed one’s world.
These groups provided the necessary security to make us feel secure and important as
individuals. As these groups have broken apart, it has opened up a window of opportunity for
the shepherd. In fact, it is not necessary for the shepherd to wait for these local groups to fail.
By transferring power to central institutions the meaningfulness of local groups causes them to
become just impersonal crowds with no meaningful activity taking place. They become just
social clubs similar to the church which degenerates into a club with pot-luck dinners.

These groups, at one time, not only

provided regular interaction with others, they It is useless for the sheep to pass
worked to teach the skills of social life. A resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while
strong community is not something that is the wolf remains of a different opinion.
learned naturally. All must learn how to William Inge, Anglican minister
cooperate with others, and to enjoy the
fellowship of other persons. As individuals
combine with various groups, they learn how to govern themselves and their local communities.
It is essential that the local support groups actually have governmental powers. It is only by
working together for common goals that real character and community spirit is born. A tennis
club brings individuals together, but real character is not developed.
These groups provided a real socializing function in early America. There was usually an
honesty of interaction that would offend the modern sensitivities. A person learned the skills of
developing inner character and disciplining one’s anti-social temptations. Because membership
in these groups was quite stable, there was a real interaction among real people. When people
see each other often and over an extended period of time, an honesty communication develops.
It is much more difficult to ‘put on air’ when everyone knows you thoroughly. There was more
concern with inner character than outward impressions. After 1865 a different America was
born from the ashes of the war. Two signs of social isolation occurred after the Civil War:

The greatest appeal of the totalitarian party . . . lies in its capacity to provide a sense of
moral coherence and communal membership to those who have become, to one degree or
another, victims of the sense of exclusion from the ordinary channels of belonging in society.
THE QUEST FOR COMMUNITY, Robert Nisbet, p. 37.

Americans were drawn to books about image, and making social impressions.
As life becomes more isolated, people become more concerned with others’ approval and
less concerned about working together. When we work with groups over time, the false images
we present, tend to decline. We become real people in contact with real people who are solving

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real problems. Individuals cannot take meaningful social action when all alone–despite the image
created in the movies. Socially isolated individuals, lack the necessary tools to take any
meaningful action. The shepherd need never fear that loners might oppose the government or the
leader’s policies. Individuals, who are lonely and conscious of their self image, will want to
please other persons. And people who want to please others will also want to please government
officials. Also, people who are conscious of their image have no trouble espousing beliefs and
attitudes they really don’t believe. As you can see, social insecurity leads not only to a
dependence on government programs, but the masses are less likely to be ideological. Insecure
people may grumble and then obey the laws of the land, but they will not organize a revolt.
They lack the necessary social skills to
organize and work with other isolated
Gone . . . is the troubled affection for
individuals.
associations based upon locality, interest, and
The same insecurity that works so
faith. Gone also is the profound veneration
well for the shepherd, also works for
for kinship, for the inviolable household, for
advertisers. People who are secure and
the imprescriptible authority of the house-
content do not respond well to
father. Neither the family, the church, nor
advertisements. A person, who can
any other system of authority is allowed . . .to
experience extreme pleasure working with
intervene in any significant way between the
others in a local group, will not be likely to
individual and the absolute power of the
buy something to make himself feels happy.
State.
Why should I pay for something that I can get
THE QUEST FOR COMMUNITY, Robert
for free? It goes back to supply and demand.
Nisbet, speaking of the Leviathan, p. 130.
If you understand this simple law, you have
the tools to be rich or a shepherd. If you are
selling a product or selling a government
service, people will not pay for something they can get for free. That is obvious. So all you
have to do is cut down, somehow, on the supply side and demand goes up. Create a shortage of
something that used to be free and people will pay a lot of money for it. I used to drink tap
water. No more. The shortage of good drinking water has caused me to pay money for good
water. If you understand this principle, you understand the very basis of modern commercial
society and the modern shepherd style government. Never forget this rule: Create a shortage,
then charge to supply the need, and you will be both powerful and rich.

T The shepherd knows the masses will not turn to him if they have other alternatives.
The leader is the least desirable source of security and for protection, but if it is the
only source, then the masses will line up to gain their security from the leader if he
appears to care about them.

9 COMPLEXITY PROMOTES CONTROL

How do you get people to accept control? The easiest way is to promote the ideas that
not only are they not in control, not one is. Reality is so complex that it is beyond control:
Beyond control of everyone except the expert, that is. One of the hidden purposes of the current

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educational establishment is to constantly teach that reality is so complex that it takes a specialist
to understand. Kids are no longer to accept the traditions of the family or society, but to rely on
the expert for insights on every issue. Parents no longer teach their kids about life, but the school
system and its mass-produced textbooks are the law of life. Life is just too complicated to be
understood by ordinary people. Even a lifetime of learning from experience cannot be matched
by the person with a degree of some sort.
The news media promote this same mantra. Life is presented as a random set of
circumstances. There is no pattern in life. Life just happens. Chaos is seen everywhere. Storms
are here. Disasters are there. Wars, class conflicts are everywhere, and on and on it goes. Any
person who watches television news or regularly reads to news magazines receives a message
that is not even mentioned. Life is chaotic. All life is a battlefield between groups and
corporations and private interests. Nothing makes sense. Nothing. The only person to keep the
whole thing from imploding is the trained accredited expert. The shepherd thus controls the
process of accreditation and thus seems to transfer control to some rational process. The image
is presented that there is no control involved at all. We just have a process that assures us that

Surveys show that of patients who spend upwards of 350 hours on the psychoanalyst’s
couch to get better–two out of three show some improvement over a period of years. The fly
in that particular ointment, however, is that the same percentage get better without analysis or
under the care of a regular physician. As a matter of fact, that same ratio–two out of three
people–got better in mental hospitals a hundred years ago . . . . Patients get better regardless
of what is done to them. Unfortunately the analyst often interprets improvement as a result of
his treatment. It does not bother him that other people use other methods with equal effect–
hypnosis, electric shock, cold baths, the laying on of hands, the pulling out of teeth to remove
foci of infection, suggestion, dummy pills, confession, prayer.
COMPETENT TO COUNSEL, Jay Adams quoting Dr. Han Eysenck, p. 3.

only qualified people will be certified as experts.

This is seen also in the relatively new industry of psychological counseling. For most of
human history, people have helped each other through tough times. Problems were considered
part of everyone’s life at one time or another. Also, what had been considered major
psychological problems, was seen as the result of a person’s making wrong choices over a long
period of time. The more a person lives a life away from people and the reality checks of
everyday life, the more his life and thoughts become eccentric. The answer to most problems
could be solved through friends, family, and meaningful associations. Today, everyone is
referred to a professional counselor during times of mental stress. It creates the image of
behavior problems and the associated problems as somehow being beyond a person’s control.
This creates in the person an attitude of helplessness. Mental problems are like cancer for which
there are no home remedies and which can strike anyone.
This is one of the most brilliant of all strategies. The goal of the shepherd is to create a
system that is equated with the weather. It is just part of reality. People may grumble about the
rain, but there is really nothing anyone can do about it. And the shepherd creates a system that
many may not like, but is equated with reality. There are really no options. Life is complex and

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is beyond understanding. The only thing a person can do, if he does not like the weather, is to
find a way to hide from it. The same is with the shepherd’s reality structure. The frame of mind
is promoted that the only way to dissent from the structure is to withdraw into some personal
cocoon. Dissidents are thus kept out of sight and are not a factor in maintaining control.

T The new leader must understand that the masses never revolt against gravity, the
weather, or death. These are all accepted as part of man’s world. The rule of the
leader and his experts must be seen in the same light. Just as the isolated individual
is socially powerless, so is the culturally isolated. Without a culture that teaches
men the power of social groups, men are powerless and must accept leadership.

10 PROMOTE ESCAPISM AS A MEANS OF SUBMISSION

Every control structure is going to

The world of human aspiration is largely
have people who do not like the system they
fictitious, and if we do not understand this we
are living under. The control structure must
understand nothing about man. . . . Man’s
not only promote the cocoons mentioned
freedom is a fabricated freedom. . . . He must
above but must provide a system that diverts
at all times defend the utter fragility of his
the masses attention. Entertainment is the
delicately constituted fiction, deny its
most useful means of control. It takes no
artificiality. . . . We have been saying that
education to be controlled. The
social life is a ceremonial that has to be
entertainment must be mass oriented. It is
flawless so that man can disguise his fictions
not like the old images of ‘culture’ which
and justify them; the last thing he can admit
appealed to the upper classes. It must be
to himself is that his life-ways are arbitrary. .
available to all. There cannot be a class
THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEANING,
consciousness in the entertainment. The
Ernest Becker, pp. 13-140.
audience must be diverse. People of all
religious beliefs and sexual orientations will
sit side by side at a sporting event. Their
differences will not be a factor. The boss will sit next to his employee and the races will all mix
in their seats. What a perfect system that creates a nation where everyone appears equal.
This creates a world view that all can accept. A person who is totally involved in such a
system does not even seem to be aware that he is being controlled. It is totally invisible control.
How many shepherds from history were they alive today would faint in envy at the current
system and how it maintains total control. We read about bread and circuses of the Roman
Empire, but the problem was that they were local and there was only one circus. The current
structure creates a total system of entertainment so that no person is left out. There is something
for everyone and it seems to be going on all of the time. And with satellites and cable there is no
part of the country that can hide from the entertainment system.
In days past people had an idea of freedom that often meant the freedom to promote my
world and life view. People went to war and died for something called truth. This is the beauty
of entertainment. There is no truth in such pleasures. If you don’t like one form of
entertainment, you can go to another. A football fan is no closer to reality than a hockey fan.

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Some to Disney World, and some go to Vegas. There are no fights over which represents the
true creation and there is no class system. We are all one in our pursuit of pleasure. For the first
time in history we have unity and everyone seems to be working for the same goals. Some can
afford more entertainment than others, but we still have the same goals. And there does not
appear to be class warfare over the inequalities of entertainment. Even if I cannot afford to
attend an event, I can watch it on television.
The leader must understand that one of his functions is to provide a substitute for the life
as people experienced it under Western Civilization and the Christian Church. These systems
provided a unity and a purpose to everyone’s life that accepted the fictions, that the philosophies
the Western Church provided. As these systems of understanding are destroyed, others must be
built in their place. It is vital that the new systems invented by the leader provide unity and a
purpose to life without undermining the goals that the new shepherd has for the masses. Games
provide this. They give life a semblance of some grand purpose and the nature of the crowd
makes the participant experience a oneness with other fans. The sports fan does not notice that
one form of meaning has been replaced by another.
T The leader must unify his people and he must provide an outlet which diverts the
attention of the masses from everyday life. Games can provide a suitable substitute
for war. Both serve similar functions. When a society is not a war, games must be
provided. Without either, a society would revert to the decentralized, feudal world.
America has certainly become a nation of game players and spectators.

11 EVERY SYSTEM NEEDS AN ENEMY

No matter how well a system works, every once in a while someone is going to ask–is
this rat race really worth it? And who says that the race is so important? Or, is there more to life
than just working and then finding escape from work? At times some may question: Another
Sunday, is this just another football game to watch? What can the shepherd do to keep his
controlled subjects from waking up from the fantasy world that has been created for them? First
of all, some will wake up. A story must be provided to fit the person’s feelings into an overall
system. The good shepherd must say to his people: ‘There are people out there who are seeking
to destroy the things we all love. The system is not perfect and sometimes we may get frustrated
at its imperfections. We must not throw out the baby with the bath water. Those who are
speaking out are merely sowing seeds of discontent which will not solve the problems. We must
all work together to find solutions so that we can all enjoy the life that most in of our society
enjoy.’ This works to marginalize those who oppose the leader’s world.
The leader must be able to use those who oppose him as a means to generate support.
Those who oppose the new leader should be pictured as standing out as an enemy of the times.
Those who criticize the new order of the leader can be used to promote the leader’s plans.
During some crisis, the leader can blame those who oppose the leader as contributing to the
problem. This places the order’s critics in jeopardy. Most do not want that. Most will shrink
back into invisibility. The leader can lump his enemies into right wing conspiracies, ignorant
bigots, members of the Klu Klux Klan, the militia, or religious fanatics. The natural tendency is

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for most to avoid being placed among such outcast groups.
At time it may be necessary to also have external enemies. War is the ultimate enemy
builder, but wars have a tendency of taking on a life all of their own. It is difficult to find an
enemy who can be used as a threat to our way of life and will only put up minimal resistence.
The Gulf War is one example of a “good” war. It fit the perfect requirements. Iraq could shut
down the world’s oil supply and thus be seen as a real threat, but there is no way the country to
defeat the United States. But usually it is better to find internal enemies as these can be more
easily controlled and if necessary they can be manufactured. The current war against terrorism
shows how the people of a nation can be quickly brought to back a leader when the nation is
under attack. A president, who was elected under suspicious circumstances, immediately
became the accepted leader of the nation.
A corollary of the above is what is
Common sense would suggest that when
called polarization. Groups tend to adopt
you put a group of people together,
views more extreme than the average opinion
discussion of differing opinions will result in
of its members. Also most people that speak
some overall compromise as everyone
out tend to favor the party line, especially as
moves toward the group average. But that
the issue becomes hotter and hotter. Those
isn’t what happens. Instead, individuals who
who have not even thought about the issue
start off with roughly similar views end up
tend to adopt the views of the majority being
with more extreme positions after group
expressed. The whole discussion will
discussion. Put a group of moderate
actually bring more people to support the
conservatives together and they become more
initial position of the shepherd. The process
conservative.
flows like this: There is a threat; we are in
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Brehm and
danger; we must stand up for what is right,
Kassin, p. 502.
those who oppose us in any way are traitors,
and we will do whatever it takes to preserve
our way of life. As the crowd progresses
down the line, opposition is weaker and weaker. People who have started out with only mild
support of the leader end up being devoted followers of the new shepherd. And most important,
the perceived enemy ends up being used to support the system he opposes. For example, he Klu
Klux Klan actually helps the leader secure his position in the eyes of the people. The leader
needs such groups to secure the support of the average citizen.
It is important to remember that this whole process works for big enemies and small
enemies. All that is necessary is that people must be persuaded that their world view is in
danger. Even such things as someone opposing a local bond issue can be made to look as an
enemy. And by making even the most normal objections be perceived as the ranting of an
extremist tends to keep opposition to a minimal level.

T The new leader will search out some element of society that it will be easy for almost
everyone to ridicule, and hate. Life is never perfect, and someone has to take the
blame other than the leader or his plan for society. Whether it be Southerners and
their prejudice, or Fundamentalists with their bigotry, some group on the margins
of society should be pictured as the source of evil.

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 12 ETHICS MUST BE TAUGHT AS SOCIALLY DIVISIVE

Most people need a motivation to resist a shepherd. Having a bad hair day will not
supply sufficient motivation. If there is one thing that supplies sufficient motivation it is a sense
of ethics. And yet people without any ethics are not in the best interest of the shepherd either.
The best solution is to replace a transcendental ethic with a secular, imminent ethic. A
transcendental ethic will motivate people to resist even at the cost of their lives. If people feel
that God is on their side, the normal laws of sociological conformance do not apply. It is thus
necessary to keep the people firmly planted on this earth and the values of a good society. And
of course, a good society can be defined by the society and changed as necessary. People
inspired by the Bible tend to resist control by the shepherd. The Bible gives them an absolute
standard with which to judge the new leader and his new culture.
A corollary of ethics is guilt. All societies must provide a way for its people to handle
guilt. If people can be made to feel guilty for some perceived violation, they are much less likely
to oppose the shepherd. In fact, they will tend to do some small things to help the shepherd
maintain control. In tests done on people, those who have been made to feel guilty are many
more times likely to engage in some activity to redeem themselves. The smart shepherd thus not
only provides an imminent ethic, and he shows how we are all guilty and fall short of the
perfection expected of citizens, but he provides a way to restore that person to wholeness by the
doing of some act. This act will support the new ethic and if possible will be displayed
publically as an example. People tend to imitate public examples.
A good example, of public confession of politically correct guilt, is seen in the current
confession of the Southern Baptist Church to ask forgiveness for its sins that were committed
over a hundred years ago. Many Baptist ministers and leaders are traveling about asking Black
audiences for forgiveness. It is also seen in the great grandchildren of slave owners writing
books about their guilt and confessing the sins of their forefathers. The goals of radical
integration are furthered through the use of guilt and through the establishment of public
examples of such guilt.
Again, sociologists have run tests to
The need for atonement, the need for
show this is true. People in a mall will tend
cleansing, and for purity, is inseparable from
to walk by someone who might be in of need
man, and the advertising industry is well
minor assistance. If, however, someone they
aware of it. The clean look, the new product,
had just walked by was helping a person in a
the spotless modern home, new clothing,
similar situation, they are much more likely
these, these and other forms of ritual
to stop and help. It is vital then that the
purification are sold by advertisers to a guilt-
shepherd not only control who feels guilty,
ridden populace in search of packaged
and how they go about dealing with their
atonement.
guilt; it is vital that the examples pictured in
POLITICS OF GUILT AND PITY, R. J.
public of people doing well be doing the
Rushdoony, pp. 6-7.
types of behavior that the shepherd wants
imitated. Again, studies have found that
people are much more likely to perform some

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directed good act if they are in a negative mood. Any negative mood will do. Happy, contented
people make lousy subjects. And subjects who are provided with alternative solutions are much
less likely to obey.

T The leader must teach the masses a new ethic that corresponds to his new culture.
It must be inclusive. The desire for private ethics separates people into the saved
and the lost. A new ethic should be greater than individual acts of sin or piety. All
that participate in the new leader’s world are righteous. There is a unity in a world
without the Christian view of sin.
It is important also to provide avenues for public repentance.

13 A NEW CIVIL RELIGION MUST REPLACE PUBLIC FAITHS

People are going to have a religious faith whether a shepherd likes it or not. It is
important to provide a faith that the shepherd can control. A civic faith that is seen as the
universal faith of all citizens is most important. There are two levels of faith. There is the
private faith that is diverse as the number of people and organizations in a society. These must
be allowed to exist, but only on one condition: When people step from the private realm to the
public arena, their private faith must be replaced with a public one that we all must hold in
common. As long as the public faith is subscribed to, any number of private faiths can be
allowed to exist. When people ask if they have religious freedom, they can be told they have the
freedom to form any number of private associations. In fact, the greater number of choices in the
private realm the more people can be told
that they are free.
The Egyptians had no word for the state.
A common faith must be developed
The word state is too limited to express the
that must be as infallible as that of any pope
divine order which their land, government
or authoritarian dictator. As long as this faith
and ruler expressed. What for us would be
is taught to the young, believed by the old,
slavery to the state meant for them divine
and repeated over and over again in the
order and man’s only hope. Man could not
media, the shepherd will be secure. Any
transcend that social order; beyond it or
good shepherd can handle power struggles.
outside it, he was nothing. It was his life. A
That is how he gained his power. And power
man might fret at his conditions, but anything
can be opposed with the point of a gun. It is
outside of his life in the state was for him
expected and no one resents such a use of
unimaginable. . . . Religion being
power. That is just the way power functions
completely identified with the life of the
in politics. But it is only a counter religious
state, man was man not in terms of a
faith that can effectively oppose the
transcendental God but only in terms of a
shepherd. It is here the shepherd must exert
divine state and its social order. Man’s
his most important energies. It goes without
happiness was in harmony with this order.
saying that the common faith will support the
WORLD HISTORY NOTES, R. J.
current government and all of its overall
Rushdoony, p. 13.
intentions.

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 By the use of symbols, rituals and beliefs a shepherd will be able to unite people into a
new faith. The more these can be focused on the national scene and away from private, local, or
personal events the more the nation can take its place as a substitute for traditional religious
faiths. A country such as Ireland provides a good example of a nation divided by private faiths
expressed in the public realm. The new faith will focus of democracy, elections, prosperity,
security and national pride. Rituals such as national sporting events as the Super Bowl can take
on a national expression. In fact, the Super Bowl has really become a national holiday of the
new entertainment faith. The entire nation stops and give celebrates for a season of great
diversion.

T The new leader has more to fear from revivals of Western Civilization and the
Christian faith than he has to fear from armed opposition. The leader must support
a public faith that unites everyone into a common public expression of his
nationalistic and worldwide goals. The new shepherd is the new pope and extends
his rule through the missionary activities of his military and trading allies.

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4. The world is to be united through the business corporation and world trade. In place of
the former ways of exploitation, empire building, and slave trade, a new business order is to be
established which will benefit all.

5. There is a Unity of Mankind. A new global culture is to break down barriers which have
kept men apart and prevented men from achieving their natural unity.

6. Each person is granted by government the right of choice. Any person or institution that
interferes with a person’s right of choice is the enemy of mankind.

7. In areas of free choice, it is vital there be no consequences. When an individual has

exercised his right of choice within a granted area, it is essential that the person experience no
negative consequences from his decision. Those who try to enforce consequences are the
enemy of mankind.

8. Each person strives for pleasure. In as much as possible, every government law and every
regulation should attempt to ensure the maximum pleasure for all on earth. Those who try to
teach negative ideas about any pleasure are the enemy of mankind.

9. In the realm of ethics, there can be no absolutes. In every area of freedom granted to men,
there can be no extra standards of right and wrong. To teach that some act is wrong when the
laws say it is not, makes one an enemy of mankind.

10. There is a natural goodness in all creatures. Many of the evils are the result of class
consciousness. By the elimination of class, many of the evils in men can be eliminated.
Those who act as if classes exist are an enemy of mankind.

11. The media is to be the electronic bonding of all men into the global village. As all
become participate in the media, they are becoming aware of their unity with all others.
The media is the message and the message is that all mankind is to be tied together in one
great electronic network.

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 14 LAW IS A BASIS OF SOCIALIZATION

The very definition of law must change if the shepherd is able to do as he wants. If there
is a law that precedes the government or rises above the government, then the attempts to impose
the rule of the government can be thwarted. In times past the people would rise up in revolt
because they felt some higher law had been violated. Higher laws give the impression to the
masses that the government is limited. The schools must teach and the media reinforce that all
laws are the result of the wise men seeking to tame evolution for the good of mankind. Older
laws that have been around for a long time take on the status of a revealed law. This must be
countered with the idea of law as being something living. Laws for one age must be pictured as
having very little application for another age.
Laws must never be questioned as to
. . . the belief in the capacity of man to
their legitimacy. The only legitimate law is
regenerate the world, and the necessity for
the one currently being enforced. If people
him to do so in order to fulfill his ultimate
feel it is a bad law, then they must be taught
destiny, provided a basis both for a conscious
that their only recourse is to change the law
attack upon the existing order and for the
through the established means. For example,
conscious establishment of a new order. The
the abortion issue must always be presented
sacred was used as a standard by which to
as a question of what is legal or illegal. No
measure the secular order. Thus the
one must be allowed to being any morality or
eleventh-century reformers began to judge
higher law into the issue. Let the battle be
emperors and kings and lords according to
fought over votes or by lawyers, but never by
principles derived from divine and natural
religious persons speaking out in public.
law. . . . So also in all subsequent great
Religious beliefs are to be corralled into the
revolutionary periods of Western history,
church buildings, but are never to be allowed
transcendent standards have been invoked
to be part of public debated. After all, there
against the existing power structure.
is no way you can be debated right or wrong.
LAW AND REVOLUTION, Harold Berman,
Law comes down to the question: “Says
p. 28.
Who?” A law is a good law if the ‘says who’
is the government and its agencies. Any
other authority must be presented as an
interloper. Such a person or belief has no
voice in the national forum.
Society is constituted and maintained by
The leader should exalt his status to
acting human beings. It has no being, no
that of a law maker. The very best and wisest
reality, apart from this activity. . . . What
have the ability to create laws which benefit
appears at any particular historical moment
all mankind. The masses must learn to see
as ‘human nature’ is itself a product of man’s
laws as something the leader imposes to
world-building activity.
establish a more perfect union. Without laws,
THE SACRED CANOPY, Peter L. Berger, p.
only the chaos of evolution is allowed to
7.
reign. The new shepherd is able to create a
social order that transform the world and

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benefits the whole of mankind.

T The new leader must transform reality through his powers to create laws. The laws
must be expressed as the only possible solution and must take on the picture of
representing the real world. Only as the masses are ruled by the leader’s laws can
mankind achieve heaven on earth.

‘Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.
Nicholas Chamfort, French author, 1741-1794.

15 CONFLICTS MUST BE PICTURED AS SOCIAL WARMONGERING

The more tranquil a society is, the more people will believe they have the ultimately good
society. All voices of dissent must be pictured as threats to the peaceful, prosperous, and
exciting culture that we live in today. A free society runs on conflicts. Separation of powers is
a way of managing conflicts and keeping any one person or group from taking over the system.
But as powers tend to become centralized, there are no longer local areas for conflicts to be
separated. Hence the need for conflict control. In the past, conflicts were a normal part of life.
Today, all persons and groups who disagree with the current established views on matters must
be made to appear extreme and a threat to society. In a national unified system there is always a
danger that some issue will provide enough of a fire that it will ignite people to action. And
action under such a system is difficult to control on the local level. After all, there are now no

Just as in politics Americans believed that they should have a ‘choice’ between candidates
and policies, so did democratic social engineers use the offer of a ‘choice’ between often
predetermined alternatives to engineer behavior (the quotation marks suggest how illusory
real choice could be). Similarly, democratic social engineering was explicitly participatory;
those whose attitudes were to be changed, or whose behavior was to be modified, had to be
part of the process, to participate or be made to feel that they had participated.
THE ENGINEERING OF CONSENT, William Graebner, p. 4.

longer really effective local power centers to deal with power struggles on a local level.
When the county system of government was strong in this nation, frustrated citizens
could change the local county government and change their lives. And if people grew frustrated
they were free to move to another county. And at times issues might rise to the state level, but
even here the issues and conflicts could be localized. Going from New York to South Carolina
would be like going to another nation. This is good for citizens but not good for the shepherd

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who intends to rule over a whole nation. Fifty different states with fifty different customs and
laws would be impossible to rule from a centralized location. The Civil War pretty much settled
this issue once and for all. We are one nation under one set of laws. Differences will no longer
be allowed to exist and control will reside in one center. It was the Civil War which modernized
our nation more than any other act. We were now a nation like other nations and ready to take
our place in the world arena.
The very thing which makes the United States a really global power also makes freedom
impossible. By that I mean freedom in the traditional sense. Freedom is now only in regards to
narrow limits set up by the ruler. You are only free as long as you stay inside the limits set by
the new form of government. The public acts of all citizens, now national citizens, must be
monitored and regulated. All employers must be regulated, all acts of people except the most
private of acts must be controlled. The new freedom is tyranny. This provides the shepherd with
one of his most formidable tasks. He must constantly talk of freedom while exerting more
control in the name of freedom. Every law must be seen as liberating the people from some
enemy. The people must be shown as continuous victims of those who would in some way take
advantage of them. The mantra must be that the more laws we have the more freedoms we have.
If this is repeated often enough with the shepherd showing concern only for the good of the
people, then everyone will buy into the message.
Once this system is in control, then any opposition to it must be seen to be as treason.
The elected officials are allowed to tinker with the system. How much deductible should parents
be allowed for each child is okay to debate. Should the parents have to report births and should
families be taxed at all is not acceptable debate. If debate should break out in an area that is
outside the parameters of the system, then the situation can be used to show the stupidity and
futility of changing something that is working so well. The shepherd that is thus able to manage
conflict and to show that those that oppose him are enemies of the people and are enemies of the
vast support system that the shepherd dispenses. We have become dependent on the national
system of control. Anything that might damage the system is like a foreign invasion. It must be
resisted.

T The new shepherd must learn to manage conflicts. He must create conflicts that
give the impression of freedom, but do not infringe upon the leader’s great plans.
The good leader should never crush all opposition, only the opposition that operates
outside acceptable limits.

16 ETHNIC HERITAGE MUST BE SEEN AS LIFESTYLE HERITAGE

The traditions of Western Civilization used to be seen as a heritage from our English
ancestors. We were the people of Anglo-Saxons who had a two thousand-year history of one
struggle after another for a system of common law and local control. It was a nation built upon
the Biblical view of man. It was a nation that had developed ultimately based upon the King
James Bible. Individuals with a heritage of independence are difficult for the shepherd to
manage. The shepherd must discredit all of this without arousing much hostility. The people
who hold to the traditional Western Civilization views must be presented as ‘hicks from the

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sticks’ and the resulting image. Any unusual person must be held up as an example of the
remnants of the past and its hold on people.
The first weapon of the shepherd must
Paternal authority–authority based on the
be to preach modernism. Western
ability of the father to transmit skill and
Civilization must be shown as a hold out
learning to his children–was shaken by the
from the past. Knights in shining armor are
new technology of industrial America. And
nice, but they would look foolish in a modern
the contained authority of the village, based
army. Every outmoded belief and behavior
on personal knowledge and shared experience
must be pictured as at war with modernism.
and values, yielded inevitably to the
Any attempt to return to a more stable era or
heterogeneous, distended confusion and
a more ethical era can be easily refuted by
disorder of the emerging city.
saying ‘you can’t turn back the clock’. It is
THE ENGINEERING OF CONSENT,
not important that statements make sense just
William Graebner, p. 7.
that they are repeated over and over.
Modernism must always be presented as the
only alternative. No choices were ever made.
Modernism has a life and laws all of its own. All we can do is to make the best of the situation
we are in right now. We must be the all seen as victims of the same processes. The shepherd is
trying to lead us, but he must be pictured as just as frustrated and confused as the rest of us. He
has trouble with his kids just like the rest of us.
The second weapon against Western Civilization is pluralism. The shepherd must argue
that the opposite of pluralism is colonialism. This word has been sufficiently discredited that any
thing labeled ‘colonial’ brings to mind movie images of slaves cutting sugar cane while the
masters sip tea sweetened with sugar. All
ethical choices must be presented as nothing
but each person’s attempt to cope with the Only in England was the Bible in any sense
world we live in with all of its confusing a ‘national possession,’ in that it seemed to
traits. All of us are just trying to survive and exist part in English as an original work of
we all make choices that we intend to bring art. Indeed, not even Luther’s version
us contentment and happiness. Ethical (despite its impact on the development of the
choices are not acts of rebellion against some German language) may be compared to the
God of the King James Bible, but are merely English Bible in this way. Englishmen
the result of people trying to find a little carried their Bible with them–as the rock and
happiness in a world with often too much foundation of their lives–overseas, even as it
pain for any of us to handle. Deviants are came to live in their own language with more
heroes of faith as they reach out to new paths abiding force ‘than the greatest works to
in a new world to discover new ways of which their authors were giving birth.’ In
surviving. some indefinable way, it managed to
The third weapon is to destroy the incorporate into their own history ‘a living
foundations upon which Western Civilization memory of the central past of the world,’ so
is built. While there have been others, John that, over time, ‘ the deeds and thoughts of
Calvin represents the codification of beliefs men who had lived thousands of years before
handed down over centuries. Such doctrines in the eastern Mediterranean cam to color the
as creation must be attacked and discredited. everyday thought and speech of Britons to the
same degree,’ wrote the great historian G.M.
Trevelyan, ‘as they are colored in our own
day by the commonplaces of the newspaper
29 press.’
WIDE AS THE WATERS, Benson Bobrick,
p. 12.
Creation implies a plan and structure. And the corollary of such a plan would be an ethical
world built upon the choices of its people. In the absence of creation we have confusion and
chaos. It is necessary for people to accept this belief as it leads to some overseer of the disorder
we all see every day. The shepherd is thus the new savior in the world of evolution. He must
picture himself as now in control of the blind forces that have been plaguing mankind for its
entire history. And it is vital that the image be presented that the shepherd can make choices
against the blackness that envelops us, but the people are not able to make such choices.
Remember logic is not important if people buy into the overall system.
A fourth weapon is racism. Western Civilization must be presented as a white bus driver
ordering all others ‘to go to the back of the bus’. To be in favor of the heritage of the West is to
attack of the other races who do not follow our heritage. The mere mention of a white person’s
heritage must be pictured as an attack upon African civilization or as ‘anti-Semitic’. The
pictures of the Klu Klux Klan and the Civil War must be presented as the last desperate attempts
of the whites of Western Civilization of preserve an antique culture. Whites have been so
intimidated by the charge of racism that it is like pointing the loaded weapon of guilt at their
heads. It is one of the most effective weapons to control those who seek to restore values
associated with Western Civilization.

T The new leader must disassociate the Anglo-Saxons from their heritage. The white
person’s alliance with Western Civilization and the Bible must be replaced with new
ideas about life and civilization. The one heritage that has the courage and the
intellectual content to oppose the new world culture is the King James Bible culture.
Every weapon must be used to render a heritage impotent.

17 A NEW PRIVATE RELIGIOUS FAITH MUST BE DEVELOPED

This will require a unique type of balancing act. A new national faith must be imposed
upon all the people and yet the separate faiths must be maintained so that no one knows that their
own faith has been destroyed. It sounds like an impossible task to achieve. In philosophy the
term often used is ‘the one and the many’. The shepherd should use a vague term like ‘unity
through diversity’. The new theology should talk about how we are all diverse in our personal
tastes which we express through our many local churches and other forms of worship. But these
local expressions are just personality and ethnic issues but have nothing to do with the general
public life. After all, the shape of our worship building and the rituals we perform should have
no impact onto the practices of modern
business and government.
The traditional symbols of community in
This technique is the flip side of the
the West, the traditional images and
development of a civil religion. It not only to
metaphors, have been above all religious and
develop a new national faith, it is just as
legal. In the twentieth century, however, for
important to redefine all religious faith as a
the first time, religion has become largely a
very private thing. Such events as weddings
private affair, while law has become largely a
and funerals should take on a central
matter of practical expediency. The
function. How one gets married or buried or
connection between the religious metaphor
and the legal metaphor has been broken.
LAW AND REVOLUTION, Harold J.
30 Berman, p. vi.
the other life crisis experiences should be encouraged as the expression of religious freedom.
And they have no effect on public policy and this adds to their usefulness. The media can be of
help, by using churches in their productions to show these activities in their many forms. And
they must all be made to appear as very meaningful on the personal subjective level, but with no
objective content. A marriage ceremony can be a very moving experience whether one is
married in the Catholic Church or a Buddhist Temple. They all can be portrayed in the media as
very meaningful experiences on the personal level, but meaningless when seen in the light of its

The emotional effects of public worship are greatly intensified if the worshipper [sic]
himself is able to participate physically in the actual rite–quite independent of whether it be a
simple or an elaborate form of worship. . . .
If the worshipper [sic] plays an instrument, carries a banner, holds a lighted candle, or walks
in a procession, his emotional response is considerably increased by such physical
participation. If the worshipper [sic] participates by joining in responses or by singing,
particularly if the setting is both rhythmical and uplifting, his respiration and circulation will
be correspondingly affected.
In most religions, kinaesthetic sensations are associated with forms of worship whose ritual
acts, resonant tones, colourful [sic] presentation, olfactory stimuli, historical associations and
reverential gestures create an atmosphere of great solemnity.
PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION, G Stephens Spinks, p.140.

social effects.
With the continued soft pedaling of content, the religious experience can be broadened to
include rock concerts, protest marches, and even tailgating at a football game. They all involve
the same human emotions expressed in different ways. They all serve as expressions of human
life and help give meaning to our daily routines. Human emotions should be glorified and the
expression of these emotions should be pictured as the thing that makes life beautiful. The good
shepherd will constantly encourage such private expressions of emotion. These expressions
should be pictured as blessing the predicament of humans interactions and the coming together to
become one in spirit. The more that people can be encouraged to see life through private
emotions, the less they will be tempted to challenge the political order and the rule of the
shepherd.
The leader should encourage religion to model itself after the various service
organizations. In addition to the various rituals that elevate the human being into the glorious
cosmos, the local church is to become an aid to the human being and his assorted needs. The
church should focus on day care services, weight loss classes, counseling, youth athletic leagues,
dating groups for singles, and a whole host of other groups. The successful church in the new
order will attempt to help each individual to function well in the new culture and his job.
Religion should support the leader and his mission in those human needs that cannot be supplied
by an impersonal political bureaucracy. Religion is to complement the political order.

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 The leader should create an atmosphere where individual faiths are only private
events. If at all possible, the leader and his vision for society should be the
unification of the culture. Rival faiths must never be allowed to become public
faiths as this will only divide society and replace the leader as the focus of order.

18 THE PERFECT SOCIETY MUST BE THE GOAL OF EVERYONE

The new leader should constantly talk about the creation of the perfect society. Mankind
seems to have an innate longing for utopia. There is that desire for the perfect society. Every
leader needs to use this theme to pursue his agenda. Plus, the great thing about perfection is that
it cannot be achieved. For this reason, this goal serves two functions: (1) the shepherd appears
necessary to continue our striving for the perfect society, and (2) with the continual falling short
of perfection, policies can be promoted as bringing us closer to perfection. The obvious
conclusion is that we need the leader and we need his policies. I heard one politician say, “As
long as there is one poor person in America, this program cannot end.” That should pretty well
provide funding forever.
Perfection is perfect in that it can be
The future is lighted for us with the radiant
applied to any area. The cry goes out for
colors of hope. Strife and sorrow shall
perfect justice, the end of all racism, the
disappear. Peace and love shall reign
achievement of one 100 per cent literacy, or
supreme. The dream of poets, the lesson of
the end of all wars. The list could go on and
priest and prophet, the inspiration of the great
on. People are to be trained in terms of never
musician, is confirmed in the light of modern
being content with society just as it is. That
knowledge.
would lead to a demand for less government
THE DESTINY OF MAN, John Fiske, 1884.
and more money to be spent on private
concerns. The other side of perfection is that
the enemies of the shepherd can be portrayed
as responsible for social imperfections. If we just had more laws to control racists, we could put
an end to all hatred in our lifetime. If we could just raise teachers’ wages, then we could have
every high school graduate, pass a reading test.
The underlying purpose of all of these perfect goals is that any frustration that people feel
must be seen in the light of some problem. Life should be perfect and if it is not, then there must
be a reason for it. There are people who are preventing perfection, and there are programs that
can be launched that will cure the problem. People must be trained to think of the shepherd as
the only source of healing. The problems we encounter must not be viewed in terms of ethical or
social failings. Individual responsibility must not be the source of any problem the shepherd
seeks to solve. Individual responsibility only comes into play when it involves people who
oppose the policies of the shepherd. Those people responsible for causing us to fall short of the
shepherd’s goals must be controlled or punished. But people are never responsible for not being
able to read, or not being able to find a job. It is the people’s fault for not supporting the
shepherd’s plans.
History should be taught about all that has held us back from achieving perfection. The
Revolutionary War and the Civil War can be taught not as political struggles over goals that

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could have been achieved in other ways, but as great events in human history in our efforts to
form a perfect union. History can take on the element of a great myth of mankind’s eternal goal
of fighting for the perfect world with a perfect system. The Biblical idea of the fall of man into
sin must be converted into the idea of man’s lack of government to achieve the necessary
controls to prevent sins. With enough laws, enough bureaucracy, with enough funding, and with
enough experts, there is no sin that cannot be defeated. With sin being seen as lodged in the
nature of our understanding of organization, then there will be no effort to turn to any other
source than the shepherd to solve any problem.

T The Bible teaches original sin in order to bring us to a dependence upon God for the
achievement of perfection. The new leader should teach a perfection that can only
be achieved through a powerful leader and the imposition of his plans. The culture
that will satisfy our every need and end every frustration is the goal of every
government program.

19 DO AWAY WITH REAL HISTORY

The teaching of history must be the planned replacement of the Bible. For centuries the
King James Bible has provided an orientation for Western Civilization. The perfect goal would
be the elimination of all history except as a vehicle to show the evil that existed before the
current government was able to gain control. While that should be the long term goal, to achieve
it would mean the elimination of the many social markers left by history. One long term goal is
the elimination of historical sites and monuments. This will take time. Some sites probably
could never be eliminated. Gettysburg will always be with us, the meaning of the site can be

All history is abstraction, generalizations on human experience. I think none of us would

make the mistake of assuming that the history we teach and write about is identical to what
happened in the past–the events and experiences themselves. Students and teachers of history
have long looked at written history as deliberately selective. The historian chooses his
subject, asks what he considers the most crucial and necessary questions, selects his data, and
constructs his argument and narrative with an eye toward discriminating between that which
he finds compelling and essential and that which appears incidental and of no consequence.
Different moments, we all know, urge different necessities; and in a different time, a
different historian will ask different questions, discover significance in data others believed
dross, construct different order, and tell a different story.
HISTORY IN THE SCHOOLS, edited by Bernard Gifford, p. 115.

changed so that it only represents some achievement of mankind.

Other items that can be achieved are the retelling of history through movies and popular
historical novels. People will watch the television series North and South and believe they are
now experts of a sort on the Civil War. And any future information will be filtered through the

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lens of the information supplied by the movie. As books go out of print and they are not
reprinted, then censorship can be achieved without the burning of one book. Book burners are
for dramatic purposes only, as the best form of censorship is just the passing of time. By the
constant replacement of the old history with the new history, the goal of killing history can be
achieved without one protester.
There are several ways to kill history. One is to publish books about how people lived in
times past. Hundreds of pages on building construction, social life, and the kinds of food eaten
give the impression of telling history without anything getting in the way of the shepherd’s
current goals. The danger that the Bible has always presented is that it has not only taught
history as an interpretation of past events toward a certain goal, it has provided examples of what
real history really is. Here again, the suppression of the Bible must be achieved through indirect
means. The accurate translation of the Bible into modern English should be discouraged. By
defending the archaic King James Bible as God’s true Word, the Bible can be kept out of the
people’s hands. The other goal would be the promotion of so many inaccurate translations that
the very idea of an accurate translation will be abandoned. The general public will get the
impression that the Bible is one confusing book that has many different meanings.
Another way to kill the Bible is to make it mean something entirely differently by
sponsoring theologians that can change its meaning. A two pronged approach is best. For the
more liberal mind, provide an interpretation that relegates the teachings of the Bible to the
private religious experience. It is a book of poetry, a book of comfort, a book of inspiration, but
it is not a book that has something to say about the real world of governing people. For the more
conservative mind, provide an interpretation that emphasizes cosmic truths. Dwell on the evil
that all men battle throughout history, and dwell on the mission of proclaiming a sentimental
Jesus. And dwell on the second coming aspects on the return of Jesus, at which time, He will
then have something to say about the running of the world. Both approaches effectively kill the
Bible. The shepherd must accomplish this as all costs if he is to rule effectively. Nothing can be
allowed to stand above his rule and decisions.

T The new leader should surround himself with the writers of history. These men
should understand that the writing of history is vital to the establishment of a new
world culture. Everything in the past that cannot be reinterpreted should be
discarded. The new history should see that all of the past as leading up to the leader
and his agenda for mankind.

20 PROVIDE A VISION OF AMERICA’S DESTINY TO THE WORLD

The idea of heaven or of some kind of afterlife has dominated people’s minds for the
entire history of the human race. It is an axiom of all leadership that a ruler cannot rule without
providing some hope beyond everyday life. But that is the problem. The hope of heaven has
often led people to rebel against their leaders. So a new heaven must be provided that does not
give too much hope of a better life and enough roots in this life that no one is going to risk
everything for some vague hopes that may not be real. This is where the shepherd must preach

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the big myth, the story of the nation that we are all working towardly. It can be labeled
‘manifest destiny’, ‘the war to end all wars’, ‘making the world safe for democracy’, or ‘putting
an end to fear’. To the shepherd, the phrase is ‘the big lie’ but he must convince his subjects of
the truth of the vision.
Every society will go through crises,
The Unites States is a visionary nation.
and the only thing that can keep people in
Americans believe in the promise of a better
line during terrible times is the belief that
world. Unlike other societies, the United
they are working for a better world for their
States has no shared ethnicity, no common
kids. People will die for such a vision, but
religion, no sense of historical heritage.
they will not die for lower oil prices. People
Instead, there is an idea. Tunning through the
need a reason for giving up self-interest. A
currents of our history is a presumption that it
great example is The Statue of Liberty. The
is possible to have it all. And not just that a
motto that America welcomes the rejects of
few people can have it all, but that all of us
the world and this nation will remake them
can.
into a shining example through the power of
Americans believe that all needs can be
liberty. The statue gives a vision that is
satisfied, that we can have wealth and
purely secular and also gives a vision that
happiness, homes and spiritual fulfillment,
will not interfere with the shepherd’s plan for
comfort and community, sated appetites and
ruling. Just like the vague admonition on the
satisfied souls. The only thing missing us
statue, all visions must be kept sufficiently
how. Convinced that abundance is possible,
vague that the people will not infer any policy
we continually strive for it and are always
from its vision. Inspire, give hope, but don’t
looking for the means to achieve it.
give any details.
A VISIONARY NATION, Zachary Karabell,
War monuments are also good. But
p. 4.
here also, keep the monuments focused on the
lives that were lost for some vague ideal.
Even a statue of some general can get a
shepherd in trouble in time as the life of the hero can sometimes lead to embarrassing details. It
would be bad to build a monument to General George Patton, but George Washington makes for
a good monument. The policies that Washington advocated are sufficiently out of date that he
will not provide too much inspiration beyond vague generalities. Patton was controversial and
some of the things he said can still get a shepherd in trouble. Another area that provides good
vague inspiration is the conquering of space. There is nothing in a space program that would
influence people to resist the laws of the land. Tributes to fallen astronauts are inspiring just like
war memorials to dead soldiers.
The danger today is that in our efforts to cut our self off from our past we are losing the
necessary heritage that can be used to inspire people. This leads to the sprouting of various cults
that seem ridiculous on the surface, but show the human hunger for some meaning beyond
pleasure and the routine of everyday life. There have been attempts to substitute ‘saving the
environment’ as a new form of heavenly bliss. It works for the few, but people will not die to
make the world safe for rain forests. The other dream of a world government will not suffice.
A nation will not die to help the people of another nation: Especially when that other nation is in
trade competition and is seen as the destroyer of American jobs.
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must sell himself and his goals to the masses. The people must like their leader, as this is a
prime motivator. Just like those who buy from a salesman they like, so the masses will buy into
the vision of the leader if they like him. He must be careful to manage his image in keeping with
his desires to rule the masses and to inspire them. He must wrap himself in a vision which the
people see him as giving to them. He must be seen as living his life for the people. The vision
of a great nation, a great people, and a world united in peace must be the new faith. The leader
should constantly seek to inspire people with the greatness of the mission they all share.

T The new leader must give the masses a reason to fight his battles. He must use the
innate desire to accomplish great things, and to be part of something bigger than the
routine of everyday life. He must give his people a mission. He must ask them to
build a living monument through their self-sacrifice and the sacrifice of their
children.

21 THE IDEA OF PERSONAL FRIENDSHIPS MUST BE DESTROYED

There are two forms of social groups that must be controlled. The first is the mob. But
by the control of the media, the mob can easily be turned into a positive. Mobs require leaders
and by substituting the leaders of the shepherd and by controlling the release of information, the
mob becomes just another tool in the hands of the leader. Now friendship is another thing
entirely. It only takes two people to form a friendship. This makes it difficult to stop, at least on
the surface. The power of friendship to motivate people to action is one of the most neglected of
topics. While leaders can be promoted by the shepherd and his media, but the power of
friendships to create leaders, makes it an
institution to be feared.
The story of the French Revolution has in it
The power of an army is often most
some of the darkest pages in the history of
determined by the bonding of its men into
modern civilization, due to the breakdown of
friendship. Men may enlist for an ideal, but
social trust.
they die for their friends. When a soldier is
In the Paris of those days a man had to be
under fire, it is his loyalty to his fellow
always on his guard, watching his acts, his
soldiers that keeps him going. And it is the
words, even his looks. It was a panic, worse
private army of citizens that a shepherd must
than avowed civil war. Friendship could
avoid. Citizens who have formed private
have little place in such a frightful palsy of
bonds will take action that no solitary
mutual confidence, though there were some
individual will ever take. Men do great
noble exceptions. The wreck of friendship
things for other men, but will only seek
through deceit is always a step toward social
pleasure if left to themselves. The solitary
anarchy, for it helps to break down trust and
individual is not only lonely, he is often
good faith among men.
without a majestic purpose. It is the bonding
FRIENDSHIP, Hugh Black, p. 139.
of men into groups that brings out men’s
greatest qualities, and it also gives them ideas
and strengths which by themselves they
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 The lonely, solitary individual is easily manipulated by the leader. He is not a threat. He
will not bond himself to groups which bring out the necessary courage to oppose a leader. The
new leader should encourage the social structures in his society that create the lonely individual.
Solitary individuals can also be useful to the shepherd as scapegoats, or as people to be made an
example of through some show trial or any form of public punishment. No one cares what
happens to some lone gunner. No one cares what happens to some crackpot. Loners tend to be
out of touch with real people so that no one is going to come to their defense.
This is what can make friendship so dangerous. Friendships provide a maturing process
that changes individuals into leaders. The maturing process keeps the individual in touch with
reality and therefore is more likely to gather others around himself. A person with a friend is
more likely to receive motivation to keep going during tough times. He is less likely to be
intimidated and diverted from his goals in life. The bonds of friendship are one of the most
powerful unions in society right up there with marriage. Just as the marriage bond is a threat to
the good shepherd so is the bond of friendship. Friends supply each other with a reality that the
false forms of reality provided by the shepherd cannot supply–people who have tasted good food

The [Nazi] youth movement began its search for a genuine community as it members
roamed the countryside trying to rediscover the inner feelings they felt they had lost in the
city. Boys took up sunbathing and nude swimming, and the steeled, bronzed body became
part of the movement’s ideal of manly beauty. Again, the Greek example we referred to, and
naturalness stressed over artificiality. Shame had no place here: ‘nudity equals truth,’ as they
put it. To such tenets, German youth added the assertion that unity of body and soul must
prevail. These young people saw themselves as alienated from the society of their parents.
The cure they sought took the form of a communal affinity encompassing all aspects of life.
NATIONALISM AND SEXUALITY, George L. Mosse, p. 56.

are never satisfied with junk food.

In studying history, one is able to discover that the successful dictator seeks to do two
things: He must undermine the ideas in society that promote friendships, and he must provide
false substitutes for friendship. The false substitutes can be such things as male oriented sporting
events or getting men involved in some mass activity that is essentially impersonal–a million
man march or some such activity. One of the easiest ways to destroy friendship is to destroy the
bonds of trust that must exist in any relationship. By promoting sexual promiscuity and by
legalizing homosexuality, the shepherd has lowered the personal relationship to the sexual and
selfish level. Friendship is viewed as suspicious not only in the public’s eyes but friends
themselves will often be afraid to form too close a bond.
A healthy society is based on trust. The basic trusts are formed in marriage and in
friendships. A people left without trust become dependent people. What good is a vow or
promise if people cannot be trusted? What good is the promise of friends to stand with you
through thick or thin? The shepherd controlled legal system becomes the substitute for trust.
Every relationship can be viewed under the legal view of rights. What are the rights of the
marriage partner and what rights can be legally expected from a verbal promise of commitment?

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Trust becomes only what is legally enforceable. And the legal system is expensive and does not
really help the common person through his everyday life. Thus with the element of trust
destroyed, people are thrown back into the shepherd’s arms as the only cheap alternative to
trusting another person.
Without trust, there is no individual freedom. The only real freedoms are the ones that
occur in groups of people we can trust. The local church often provided a ground where
common trust and commitment could be learned. Even such once local activities as the
community school, the grange, the labor union, and city and county government provided
avenues where people learned to interact and trust each other at their word. And that is what
freedom and government are all about–it is individuals who trust each other, interacting, and
finding solutions to govern themselves. There is no need for a good shepherd for such people.
They have each other. When people have such a common bond and trust, so many other needs
are also met that they become very difficult to bend to mass causes and campaigns.

T The leader realizes that lonely men long for some form of bonding. If he can
prevent their bonding with each other, they are open to a national bonding with the
good shepherd. The great myth appeals to men who lack the emotional support and
courage created by men who have deep friendships.

22 CREATE UNCONTROLLABLE THREATS TO EVERYONE’S SECURITY

Human nature being what it is, problems will always arise. In order to rule as a shepherd,
the new leader will see that there are many problems that are left uncontrolled. It is not natural
for people to want a shepherd. A need must be created. The people must be made to see that
unless they have a good shepherd over them that the problems will certainly overwhelm them. It
is thus absolutely necessary that problems be created that appear to be out of everyone’s control.
Crime and drugs are two of the easiest disasters to befall a nation. These can give the
appearance of making everyone the victim and the need of help from the ruler. Once a problem
has been sufficiently used to create fear and insecurity a people will willingly turn over their
freedoms to the shepherd in
exchange for the right just to live out
their lives in peace and quiet. ‘The world is coming to an end in our lifetime!’
The more problems that can ‘Disaster is about to strike!’
be created, the greater the success of ‘The sky is falling! The sky is falling!’
the ruler. While foreign threats are ‘Birth defects on the rampage!’
an excellent source of insecurity, it is Besieged by murder, rape, and robbery!’
just as important that the shepherd ‘Hamburgers kill kids!’
create the threat. Once an enemy has Are these the pronouncements of wild-eyed, crazy
been created, it is much easier to preachers on street corners–and the Chicken Littles of
control. A lion on a leash is the goal fairy tales? Are they headlines from tabloids sold a
as long as no one is allowed to see supermarket check-out stands? No–these types of
the leash. Hitler was financed with headlines appear in respectable media such as the
foreign bankers supplying the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago
Tribune, Time, Newsweek, and the evening network
news.
ARE WE SCARING OURSELVES TO DEATH?
38 Cohl, p.7.
H. Aaron
money. Soviet Russia was built into a military threat using western technology freely supplied
from the United States. Both nations lacked the necessary infrastructure to carry on a real war
for any length of time. For example, Germany during World War II was the size of Texas and
yet was made to appear as a world conqueror. A nation without an oil supply and a limited
number of civilians available for combat could only be expected to fight until the world was
ready for the good shepherd’s solution.
The masses must be taught that the world is chaotic and is a constant threat. They must
be told that society will collapse without the most sophisticated legal and police force. The ruler
must look to organized crime as a teaching tool whenever he needs to see how a nation is to be
ruled. Just as criminals can exhort money from merchants through the promise of safety from
the fires which criminals have started, so the leader can extort submission from the masses.
Even if the merchants realize that the fires were deliberately started to scared them, that
knowledge does them no good. There is no way to fight back except by going along with the
system. So it must be with every problem created by the ruler. Local solutions must be
thwarted. By the nationalizing of laws it thus becomes impossible for any local community to
take action.

T The new world leader is not something people turn to naturally. The need for a
powerful leader must be created in the hearts of men. Men, in the face of life’s most
unconquerable opponents, look for a savior. The new leader thrives when men’s
hearts cry out in despair. Only in the dark of the night are men willing to sell
themselves to anyone possessing light. The new leader is to be that light, and is to
pattern himself with that in mind.

23 FALSE WATCHDOGS MUST BE CREATED

The shepherd must not only create or at least allow major problems to exist, he must
create so-called independent organizations to give the appearance of investigating everything.
By the means of watch dogs on a leash the leader can give the appearance that everything is on
the up and up. The people can be assured that if anything illegal or immoral were going on, then
the media, the police, or someone would
stand up and blow the whistle on the whole
mess. The impression must be created that Mainstream journalists are accorded a
there is a whole army of free people out there, certain degree of independence if they
just looking for a little wrong doing to demonstrate their ability to produce copy that
expose. With the systematic exposure of is not only competently crafted but also free
petty criminals or of criminals who have of any politically discordant tones,. Indeed,
become too smart for their own good, the competence itself is measured in part by
impression can be pulled off with the public one’s ability to report things from an
sacrifice of these unfortunate scapegoats. ideologically acceptable perspective, defined
The image is thus kept before the as ‘balanced’ and’ objective.’ In a word,
public, that though times are tough, we not journalists are granted autonomy by
only live in the best of all possible worlds, it demonstrating that they will not use it beyond
acceptable limits. They are independent
agents in a conditional way, free to report
what they like as long as their superiors like
39 what they report.
INVENTING REALITY, Michael Parenti, p.
35.
is the only possible world. There must be seen as no alternative to the current situation. What
we have is reality and while we can improve this or change that, there is really nothing more than
anyone can do. Every voice that says differently must be silenced, and if not silenced must be
made to appear as an extremist or as fool. After all, if there were a better way, surely the watch
dogs or the shepherd would tell the people about the new and better world. The only time a new
and better world should ever be brought up is in the extreme case where the shepherd and his
helpers have let things go a little too far and there is the real threat of them losing power. In such
a case, the shepherd must be the revolutionary evangelist to ward off any attempts on his throne.
A shepherd must be willing to do what the baseball manager does at times to save his job:
He will fire his coaching staff. The shepherd must be willing to throw his own people to the
watch dogs and allow his appointed dogs tear the person up. This cannot only prevent further
damage but also increases the prestige of the shepherd as he is shown to be on the side of the
people no matter where he finds evil. And the watch dogs love it because they can now pretend
to be the real protectors of public order and lawfulness. Everyone is happy and comes across as
looking good. The shepherd must never forget that he is putting on a show to entertain the
people of his country. If he is not a good showman, he is not a good ruler. And it helps if the
showman can be portrayed as just one of the ordinary folk who is now in a position of power to

In 1975 a Senate intelligence committee found that the CIA owned outright ‘more than 200
wire services, newspapers, magazines, and book publishing complexes’ and subsidized many
more. A New York Times investigation revealed another fifty media outlets run by the CIA in
the United States and abroad, and at least twelve publishing houses, which marketed over
1,200 books secretly commissioned by the CIA, including some 250 in English. As the Times
explained it, these figures were far from the whole story. The CIA subsidized books on China,
the Soviet Union, and Third World struggles which were then reviewed by CIA agents in
various U. S. media, including the New York Times.
INVENTING REALITY, Michael Parenti, p. 233.

help his own kind.

T The leader must give the impression that his every move is under scrutiny. It is vital
that he have opponents who appear to be his greatest critics. The masses gain a
false assurance from the idea that if there were some misbehavior, one of the
leader’s critics would expose it. If there is no exposure, everything must be alright.

24 EVERY CRISIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE EXPLOITED

Not every event can be controlled by the leader. Sometimes things just happen. The
shepherd must be alert to use every opportunity to create a situation which calls upon him to act
as a leader. It is also important that every problem, no matter how local it may appear, be made
to appear to be a national problem. The bigger the problem can be made to appear, the bigger

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the leader is needed. The ultimate problem would be a world wide crisis. This is why such
issues as war, crime, drugs, terrorism, and the environment are such useful tools to power. None
of these problems seem confined to the local
arena for solutions.
It is a well-known fact that human emotions
When people see themselves as out of
become more intense when frustrated, and
control, they cry out for a savior. Religion
people are never more prone to suggestion
accomplishes this with the problem of sin.
than when their desires for foo, shelter,
Sin can never be solved completely so there
safety, prestige, and the rest have been
is always a need for a priest. Professional
thwarted–hence the frightening suggestibility
fund raisers always are looking for a threat
of the revolutionary mob.
that has no short term solution. The last thing
TECHNIQUES OF PERSUASION, J. A. C.
a professional priest wants is a cure for sin.
Brown, p. 24.
And the charitable organization does not want
a solution to the problem on which its income
is dependent. The shepherd thus, must copy
these con artists as much as possible. He has one big advantage. He has the power not only to
create problems, but the power to make sure no solution is ever found. And with the media
going along with the leader, success is assured.
The media and the leader have a symbiotic relationship. The media needs crises to keep
their ratings sufficiently high to be attractive to sponsors. A world content and at peace with
itself is not going to turn on the evening news. Good news does not sell papers. While no media
person would admit at creating problems, their exaggerated coverage of even minor problems
can help create much large problems. And there is a similar symbiotic relationship between the
media and those desiring to be news makers. There are enough people who desire attention, that
merely showing the public what it takes to become a notorious celebrity helps create others who
also want their share of the fame. The media hold a monopoly on such fame today. The media
makes and creates celebrities and the news makers. A school shooting that in one area is
magnifies some to celebrity status, creates others who are willing to create problems in exchange
for a moment of fame.
The constant barrage of problems creates an atmosphere of helplessness. People are
made to feel like the world is out of control. Because the problems are so much larger than life,
there is the constant state of helplessness. With enough coverage, an environment of fear can
pervade the entire society. If fear becomes firmly established, the masses will go through life
looking for saviors in all areas. The fun of just everyday life will have been destroyed. Hanging
behind every laugh is the shadow of fear. Who can relieve the world of constant fear? The good
shepherd can move into this world and promise a law that can attack every fear in our lives.
The good shepherd has a plan for crime, for free medicine, for clean air, and the vision of
a future when there shall be a world without fear. A President Roosevelt can promise that he
will give people the freedom from fear. This is the new role of the leader. He will lead his
people into green pastures, he will lead them besides clean pure waters, he will restore their
strength, he will cast out all fear, and the person will be secure and live happily ever after. The
new leader must see this as his mission. If he wants to prepare himself for the role of leader, he
must study the great faiths in history and the words leaders used to manipulate people. The more
he can imitate the man of faith, the more secure he will be as the good shepherd.

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 One excellent thing about being able
That Hitler succeeded . . . was due to his
to project the image of the man of faith is that
intuitive understanding of what the German
the loyalty that normally would be planted in
people felt and therefore he was able through
a religious faith will be transferred onto the
his propaganda machine to tell them what
good shepherd. While some nations have
they wanted to hear.
gone over board with statues and posters of
It is assumed that most people want
leaders everywhere and created a dependent
political doctrines explained to them
and resentful population, it is important to be
rationally, that they cannot stand being
seen as the servant leader. A dictator comes
bamboozled, that they prefer an easy life to a
across as someone on a great ego trip. A
hard one, and that they inevitably prefer
shepherd comes across as someone just like
pleasures to pain, love to hate. This may be
the common man, who cares for us, but one
true under ideal conditions, but in the
who has the power and the necessary talent to
circumstances of ‘quiet frustration’ in which
accomplish our every demand. When he
most lives are live it is not true at all.
talks to us on television it is like he is talking
TECHNIQUES OF PERSUASION, J. A.
to us alone and that he understands our every
C. Brown, p. 111.
problem.

T The leader knows the truth about

trouble, problems, and disaster. They are his bread and butter. He not only needs
them, he needs to promise relief from them for the masses. Yet, the end of problems
is not his goal. His goal is to give the masses a belief in the power of the leader to be
their good shepherd who cares about them in troubling times.

25 MEGATRENDS MUST BE BLAMED FOR DIRECTION WE ARE TAKING

The leader must be in total control in two vital areas. He must control the interpretation
of the past, and he must control the visions of the future. He must constantly be talking about the
Megatrends that control our lives. A nation needs a vision of something more than everyday life.
If the leader does not provide a hope and vision, a new rival leader will and that could mean the
loss of power or the launching of unnecessary conflict. Leaders in the past have failed by putting
all of the resources of the government into preserving the present. That may have worked during
some past dark ages, but not today. Even the United States government with all its financial
resources cannot stop change. And what is even more surprising is that the Soviet Union despite
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 This book will attempt to analyze some of the important economic, political, and social
problems that confront modern society. In the case of nearly every problem, we shall find the
underlying cause to be cultural lag–the failure to adapt our institutions to new material
conditions of living. . . . We are living in a period of critical social change. Whether we like
it or not, the old order is being swept away and a new one is taking its place. It is our
responsibility to determine whether we shall take the initiative and construct a sound new
social order that will provide liberty, justice, prosperity, security, peace, and happiness for all,
or whether we will shirk our task and allow society to drift into dictatorship, war, misery, and
chaos.
THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, Harry Elmer Barnes, p. 13.

If change is going to be with us, then it is important to have change on our side. Change
must be the leader’s friend. He must be seen as not the victim of change, but as the person who
most understands change. If a leader lives in a farming area and it rains on the thirsty crops, why
not take credit for it. In the same way, change is like the rain, it is going to happen. The
shepherd must explain how change is good and that he understands change. The people need to
be assured that with the proper leader, change is a sign of a healthy society. Most persons fear
change so assurance is necessary that change is for the best. There is an old saying from the days
of the French Revolution. It goes: I must find out where the people are going so I can lead them
there. That must be the motto of the good shepherd. He must come to understand change,
embrace it, and decided how it can be best
used to keep himself in power.
Every few hundred years in Western history
In recent times change has become
there occurs a sharp transformation . . .
accepted more and more and normal. In
[which] I called a ‘divide.’ Within a few
times past we had doomsayers predicting the
short decades, society rearranges itself–its
end of the world if things kept on changing.
worldview; its basic values; its social and
In England, when people ran out of wood for
political structure; its arts; its key institutions.
fuel, it was viewed as the end of the world.
Fifty years later, there is a new world. And
Then coal and the necessary steam pumps to
the people born then cannot even imagine the
mine it were discovered. Hope and
world in which their grandparents lived and
prosperity returned to even greater heights.
into which their own parents were born. We
Now we see the ending of the coal and oil
are currently living through just such a
age, and again we see doomsayers on the
transformation. It is creating the post-
horizon. There is a great movement
capitalist society, which is the subject of this
underway to stop change. If we are running
book
out of oil, let’s ration it so we can survive a
POST-CAPITALIST SOCIETY, Peter F.
view more years is the constant cry. The
Drucker, p. 1.
leader that falls into this trap is going to lose
power. He will be left with those who feared
that if everyone owned a horse and buggy
that there wouldn’t be enough hay.
As we some have grown to accept and even embrace change there have been better and
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happens all by itself and any attempts to control it will fail. The leader does not direct change
but discovers it. He must find out where change is going so he can lead the people there. It
other words, he must take credit for what is happening and what would happen without him. The
leader must be aware of the social and historical Megatrends. He must then lead the people in
those directions. A leader that think he can stop the internet or computer technology is going to
end up with the Luddites who between 1811 and 1816 destroyed textile machinery thinking it
would preserve jobs.
Change is really one of the least understood forces of history and it of such a nature that
politicians do not even know how to make a stand. Liberals end up talking like conservatives
and conservative like liberals. The liberal supporting labor is against trade while the
conservative who resists change likes what trade does for business. A leader who does show
understanding of change should encourage conservative activities while at the same time as
seeking ways to lessen the blows of change. A shepherd might establish a national heritage
holiday as a substitute for the feelings of lostness in a sea of change. If the leader does not
establish an improved substitute then the door is open for the Luddites to run society. I cannot
emphasize it enough, as tempting as it is, siding with the Luddites will only result in social and
political death.

T The leader must make all those who oppose him appear as individuals living in the
Dark Ages. Opposing the leader is to oppose progress. It is vital that the issue be
between change and no change. Those who oppose change will always look like
losers because change is impossible to oppose. Vastly different ways of change must
not be debated. The leader promotes change and tells everyone he understands it.
There is nothing fo fear from the forces of history as long as a wise person is in
charge.

26 CONTROLLING ELECTIONS MEANS CONTROLLING EDUCATION

One of the mistakes the new shepherd makes in his attempt to maintain his leadership
position is to think that elections are won by campaigning. That is only the harvest that yields
the fruit that has been planted many years before. The campaign tries to hit certain hot buttons in
people’s minds or subconscious which has been planted by the media and the education system.
The great advantage of the school planting thoughts is that as we grow older we really do believe
everything we learned in kindergarten, and primary school. This is where the hot buttons must
be planted to be permanent. They can be planted later but then the mind will hold two contrary
opinions and the leader’s opponents might try to use those unused or latent buttons.
The shepherd must constantly tell the people that the purpose of education is so that the
future adults of America will be able to find fulfilling jobs. Actually, the real purpose is so that
the kids will grow up to be proper voters. This is why those who attack modern education can be
made to look so silly. They have very little idea, of what the real issues consist. If they want to
attack the fifth grade reading level of high school kids, that is fine. Let them spend all of their
energies trying to raise it to a sixth grade level. But the good shepherd knows quite well that
voters do not have to be able to read. In fact being able to read well might interfere with the

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election process.
The best way to divert attention from the hot button education being delivered is the use
of standardized tests. Whenever there is a movement to improve education and the movement
seems to be getting out of control, the leader is to outline a program to raise the scores on
standardized tests. The leader should not tell the people that the very tests are also being
controlled by the same people who want to win elections. Not only can test scores be made to
rise, but the tests can be slanted toward the skills needed to vote properly. This can be done very
subtlety. All tests are written in some language. Schools are first of all to teach a language to the
students. I am not talking about English or Spanish, but the very words and their meanings
which are planted in the minds of kids.
This planting of controlled words and
The secret of American schooling is that it
their definitions is the real purpose of
doesn’t teach the way children learn, and it
education. Ask any kid today and they will
isn’t supposed to. School was engineered to
be able to write or at least talk about such
serve a concealed command economy and an
issues as freedom, crime, drugs, environment,
increasingly layered social order; it wasn’t
pollution, rain forests, global warning,
made for the benefit of kids and families as
conservation, world peace, the death penalty,
those people would define their own needs.
the generation gap, abortion, justice, freedom,
Unceasing competition for official favor in
employment, government programs, poverty,
the dramatic fish bowl of a classroom
the homeless, animal extinction,
delivers cowardly children, little people sunk
overcrowding, discrimination, sexual
in chronic boredom, little people with no
diversity, gay and women’s rights, energy
apparent purpose for being alive.
costs, foreign trade, colonialism, slavery,
THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF
immigration, health care native Americans,
AMERICAN EDUCATION, John Taylor
and the list could be extended much further.
Gatto, p. 43.
But you get the idea. The above words
represent the buttons that have been planted
in the minds of children. If you were to go
back in time the kids would be much better educated but would have no idea of what the above
words mean in our sense of the definition.
When a leader controls the words he thereby eliminates certain things from their very
discussion. If certain words are brought into the public square for discussion there will be no
reaction as the words will have no emotional meaning. Try explaining how in a truly free market
system is actually the best and fairest system of pricing. By the time someone has tried to
explain what he is talking about the average person has disengaged the thought. Most religious
issues fall under this banner. The words of faith and the Biblical faith have lost their meaning.
Religion has been reduced to an emotional experience. Such Biblical words as salvation, sin,
mercy, predestination, healing, prayer, atonement, sacrifice, disciple, and so many more will fall
on deaf ears. Even for those who know the words, they will be seen as irrelevant. The reason

The Behavioral Science Teacher Education Project identified the future as one ‘in which a
small elite’ will control all important matters, one where participatory democracy will largely
disappear. Children are made to see, through school experiences, that their classmates are so
cruel and irresponsible, so inadequate to the task of self-discipline, and so ignorant they need
to be controlled and regulated for society’s good. Under such a logical regime, school terror
can only be regarded as good advertising. It is sobering to think of mass schooling as a vast
demonstration project of human inadequacy, but 45 that is at least one of its functions.
THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION, John Taylor Gatto, p.
41.
they are irrelevant is that none of these words were taught in school.
In this way, the leader has eliminated religious opposition. The only way the opposition
can approach the leader is through the words that he has created and their definitions. The leader
has won the argument even before that fight has begun. If you control the “words” you control
the election. In you control the educational system you control the words. With the control of
the media, the hot words can be the headline news every day. There will be no escape from the
total cradle to grave word control. Baring some major foul up, there is no way the leader and his
followers can ever be replaced in power. No matter what happens, the blame will be diverted by
the proper use of hot words. The mantra is–bad policies do not create problems but those who
oppose the proper application of the particular hot word. For example, a health care shortage is
not caused by the leader’s policies, but those who have money and cause health to be diverted
toward the rich. Water shortages are caused by those selfish Americans who insist on having a
green lawn instead planting drought free plants.

T The leader controls the masses through the control of their thinking. There are two
levels of education. There are the skills which children learn. And there is the
context in which they learn skills and facts. The good leader knows that the
educational skills are emphasized for the masses, but control is achieved by
teaching the children a pattern of thinking, and what the controlling words of
society mean.

27 DEBT IS NOT ABOUT MONEY BUT ABOUT CONTROLLING PEOPLE

In all of the talk about slavery, there is rarely any mention that the person in debt is a
slave to the person he owes money. There are many ways to gain control of an electorate but any
thing that makes them dependent on the current system is good. No one will risk a change if
they are afraid that any thing that might affect their income will cause disaster in their lives. A
person in debt must keep the money coming in each month. Sometimes life requires difficult
decisions. A person it debt will put off doing something that rocks the boat until he gets out of
debt. The good shepherd will see that all of the people are always in debt. The leader must
always remember that debt equals dependence. And the people must always be made to realize
that they are dependent on the leader to provide. “Give us this month our daily payment,” must
be the prayer of the people.
Our very ideas have changed. Today,
And the borrower becomes the lender’s
when people talk of being free they are
slave. Proverbs 22:7.
rarely taking about being debt free. The
leader must keep the economy functioning to
the level needed to keep people confident enough to keep borrowing, but the nation must never
be so prosperous that people are getting out of debt. Taxes, especially the hidden ones, are the
best way to keep income levels at the level of middle class subsistence. What the good shepherd
is really doing is creating a reality for his people to live. Just as the fish needs water, people
need a reality in which to live and make decisions. If one is not prepared for them by the leader,
others will arrive on the scene who will offer other visions of reality. While the joke of the

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donkey following the carrot on a stick is laughed at, the leader must never forget that people are
to be treated as the donkey. They need a carrot and the leader must make sure he provides a
carrot, and that it is always just out of reach. The popularity of the various lotteries is part of this
same mentality. Many dream about their ship coming in, even with odds about one in forty

An important fact about Babylon was its use of debt to enslave men and nations.
Economic control and supremacy was Babylon’s goal, and the key to its empire was debt.
Babylonian merchants, heavily controlled by the state, were encouraged to sell to peoples
everywhere on easy credit terms. By this means, the inner strength of one nation after
another was eroded by debt, and invasion and conquest made easy. . . . Debt-slavery
preceded state-slavery.
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Rousas J. Rushdoony, p.950

million.
Money is the universal carrot. It is also more easily controlled. Also the money carrot
can be used to motivate many different kinds of people because of its usefulness as an exchange
for a multitude of assorted pleasures. The good shepherd and his bankers create money. That is
one of the little understood laws of modern life. Money used to be seen as a store of value. Gold
was money because it was the historical accepted store of value. Even with the introduction of
paper gold and silver receipts, the paper represented a deed of ownership for stored value. A
government could print receipts but only for stored value. The genius of the new shepherd is the
realization that people will accept a piece of paper created by the government as stored value.
The monopoly on the creation of money is the power to rule people. No money translates into
no monthly payment.
Of course, debt should not be limited to just individuals. Debt should be the basis of all
of society. Businesses should be in debt. Local governments should be in debt. All nations
should be in debt. Debt should be as universal as the air that is breathed. This is one of the great
sleight-of-hands that the leader must be aware. While his people fear other nations and their
armies, debt is slowly taking over the world without a shot being fired. And the whole system
can be made to appear so pervading and complex that no one, not even their leader, can
understand it totally. It is just something that happened and we all have to live with it. Life is
not just death and taxes, but death, taxes, and debt. Even armies today cannot fight without
going into debt. No debt, no armies, and not fighting. Only those armies that have credit
available can fight and carry on a war.
There is something called the MacDonald’s factor in the world peace movement. The
hamburger chain has outlets in some seventy countries. No two countries that have a Big Mac
have ever gone to war. This is often made into a joke, but there is some reality to it. A country
can only support a Mc Donald’s restaurant chain if they are tied into the international debt
economy. It is not safe to invest in a nation that is independent and could take over your
industry. A nation dependent on international credit is going to stay in line. Just as individuals
in debt can be controlled, so can nations as they struggle to make that monthly payment. It is a
system that is not often talked about but it is the reality of the whole world we live in today.

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T The leader should preach the freedom of his people while doing every thing to make
them enslaved to debt. Because the masses are fooled into thinking that all those
who do not live on plantations are free, they are kept in a new form of slavery. The
new slavery enables the ruler to do as he wishes without the fear of the slaves
revolting against his rule.

28 PLEASURE MUST BE PRESENTED AS THE ULTIMATE REALITY

The question people always want to know, “What is truly real.” Sometimes life can be
confusing and many begin to ask, “Is that all there is?” The leader must be willing to step in and
always have an answer for that question. But he must be careful to disguise his true intentions.
There is still a Victorian carry over that regards pleasure as wrong, or at least as wrong as a goal
in life. Maybe it is part of our altruistic nature to question pleasure for it seems selfish if it is
spelled out bluntly. The leader must lead his people to pleasure and at the same time deny that
he is doing so. If he can do this, the people will love him for it. You see, the masses actually

[There] is one basic underlying message: the utter vitality of our social fictions, and the
deadly seriousness of our efforts to sustain and reinforce them. The world of human aspiration
is largely fictitious, and if we do not understand this we understand nothing about man. . . .
Man’s freedom is a fabricated freedom, and he pays a rice for it. He must at all times defend
the utter fragility of his delicately constituted fiction, deny its artificiality. That’s why we can
speak of ‘joint theatrical staging,’ ‘ritual formulas for social ceremonial,’ and ‘enhancing of
cultural meaning,’ with utmost seriousness.
THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF MEANING, Ernest Becker, p. 139.

need to be trained in pleasure. It sounds stupid but it is true.

Life in the past exerted a certain discipline. So much time was oriented around surviving
and all of the details that went into, that little was left to pursue pleasure. Today may be the first
age in history when the common man does not need anyone else. Everything he needs can be
supplied without his promising to help back in some way. In history people needed each other to
survive. A good example is our taming of the prairie through free land. Settlers were given one
square mile. The first thing they did was to build a house right in the middle so no part of their
land was more than about one-half mile away. That was their first house. Their second house
was built in the corner of the property near three other houses built in the same corners. You did
not survive but with neighbors to call upon and to help when needed. Those days are over.
This is the age of the totally solitary self-sufficient individual–needing no one and having
every need provided by some professional service. While a king in the past may have been able
to live that way, today it is open to all except the poorest. We do not like to admit but a lot of
our so-called human generosity shown in the past was only but a necessary trade off. We needed

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each other and by helping others, it was like putting money in the bank in the form of others’
obligation to help me back when needed. Mentally we still think we live on the prairie and we
do not like to think things have changed, but they have. The leader must recognize this and
supply the new needs without mentioning the basic implications of what he is saying or doing.
He will tell people that we are all a loving and generous people. The government will give
expression to that temper and supply all our needs so that no one may ever be in need again. He
must always say, “We are a great and generous people. We must do all that we can so that every
one of us has our needs met.”
Such idealism appeals to our selfish
Freedom is perhaps the most resonant,
nature. If we took time to analyze the
deeply held American value. In some ways,
situation, we would realize that we are being
it defines the food in both personal and
lied to about this whole government cradle to
political life. Yet freedom turns out to mean
grave system. But we want to be lied to, so
being left alone by others, not having other
we can throw off any obligations which keep
people’s values, ideas, or styles of life forced
us from our daily pursuit of pleasure and
upon one, being free of arbitrary authority in
filling our days with fun activities. If I work
work, family, and political life. . . . And if the
all week at some boring job, the last thing I
entire social world is made up of individuals,
want to do is spend my weekend helping
each endowed with the right to be free of
somebody raise a barn or a storage shed.
others’ demands, it becomes hard to forge
“Let him buy a storage shed like I did,” is
bonds of attachment to, or cooperation with,
what we all think. Once the above system is
other people, since such bonds would imply
in place, it is self-perpetuating. No one is
obligations that necessarily impinge on one’s
going to vote to destroy the system he
freedom.
depends on for survival. And the skills it
HABITS OF THE HEART, Robert N.
takes to be a friendly neighbor have been lost.
Bellah, p. 23.
The skills of the new frontier are the location
of the best restaurants, the best theme parks,
and the best ways to meet people who share
my particular form of pleasure–such as sky diving, or coin collecting.
The great thing about hedonistic people is that they do not do things to stop the pleasure.
They are not going to protest over the decisions that the leader may make that have nothing to do
with his personal pleasure. He may worry about social security politics, but not all of the many
regulations that run every aspect of his life. Hedonists do not die for a cause unless the source of
pleasure has been denied. The good shepherd is like a drug dealer, he just has to maintain a
certain level of pleasure going forth from his office and his addicts will not do anything to
interrupt his rule. Not only do hedonists not die for a cause, they really do not want to work for
one. Despite a few professional protesters, which the leader should employ, the masses
are content to just let most issues take care of themselves. That is why he votes for the system
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 Because the average citizen is assured
This ideal of freedom has historically given
that this may not be the best of all possible
Americans a respect for individuals; it has, no
worlds, it is still the only world we have.
doubt, stimulated their initiative and
And while we are striving to improve things,
creativity; it has sometimes even made them
the world we live in is reality. The average
tolerant of differences in a diverse society
person should not seek to change the system,
and resistant to overt forms of political
but to adjust to it. The schools and the
oppression. But it is an ideal of freedom that
churches and the counseling services should
leaves Americans wit6h a stubborn fear of
all have as their goal the helping of people to
acknowledging structures of power and
adjust to the conditions of the twenty-first
interdependence in a technologically complex
century. All discontent with the system can
society dominated by giant corporations and
thus be redirected inward. If someone fails,
an increasingly powerful state.
they must be made to feel it their own fault.
HABITS OF THE HEART, Robert N.
At worse it is some other person’s fault such
Bellah, p. 25.
as my parent or school system. He must
never become aware that he is living in an
artificial system. The American way must
never be seen as anything less that “God’s created order.”

T The new leader must give people what they want, not what they need. He must help
the masses participate in an artificial reality created to disguise the irresponsibility
of the people. The masses want to live in a ‘movie’ of their own making. It is the
leader’s job to help them live in this unreality. The only way the masses would ever
rebel against the new leader is if he failed to validate their false reality.

29 PROPERTY MUST BE REDEFINED AS CONSUMPTION

The story of Western Civilization has been the story of property. People have worked
and died for property. In our history people moved west and fought the wars against Indians and
the elements just for some free property. Those days are over. The leader must slowly work to
move the nation away from primitive ideas. Property is divisive. Family farms are divisive. All
property must become the owned by the central government so that property can be managed for
the best uses and that no one will feel property is their own to do with as they wish. It is
important to understand the traditional nature of property and the threat it has for the good
leader. The ancient belief that property could be owned free and clear without zoning restriction
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 When Theodore Roosevelt, speaking at the Sorbonne on April 23, 1910 separated the
concept of human rights from property rights, he brought to public attention an approach
which was clearly alien to the American system. ‘Liberty and Property’ was a battle-cry of
resistance to Parliament’s encroachment in the events leading to the War of Independence.
The belief that ‘a man’s house is his castle’ rested on the assumption that liberty and property
not only go hand in hand but are inseparable. The increasing separation of property from
liberty, and the idea that ‘human rights’ can exist to the detriment of or in opposition to
property rights, clearly means the end of the historic American system, if it be continued.
POLITICS OF GUILT AND PITY, Rousas J. Rushdoony, p. 164.

The good shepherd must understand the psychology of property ownership. It was looked
upon by its owner as a separate nation that he could rule over as he pleased. Not only could he
be a minor king, he could develop the property and pass his kingdom onto his kids without any
tax on his labors. The shepherd should teach that such attitudes are a hold over from the
plantation days and that the people need to adjust to the new freedom that the new concept of
property has. But the real reason is that private property creates a free and independent people.
If a person is allowed to be free over just a square foot of property, he starts to feel like he can be
king and rule over other areas as well. Any person who can stand on that one square foot and
defend it from all outsiders develops an attitude of independence and is not easily made to feel
dependent on the new shepherd.
You cannot take away this idea of property without replacing it with something else.
This applies with all that a leader does but is probably most important is the area of property. A
quick glance at today’s environment will reveal the new property. It is consumer possession and
consumer entertainment. In the past a person was free if he was a property owner. Today a
person is free if he can consume products and experiences. Those who protest today are those
who feel they are left out of the new consumer-oriented freedom. The new ownership is over
our own bodies. The new freedom is to experience whatever we want with our bodies. Property
ownership involved the Biblical idea of stewardship. Man was to copy God and take his
property and make it over according to his own vision. The Bible declares; “ Then God said,
‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them rule...over all the

Go to a motion picture . . . and let yourself go. . . . Before you know it, you are living the
story–laughing, loving, hating struggling, winning! All the romance, all the excitement you
lack in your daily life are–in Pictures. They take you completely out of yourself into a
wonderful new world. . . . Out of the cage of everyday existence! If only for an afternoon or
an evening–escape.
Quoted from an ad in the Saturday Evening Post, in 1924,
CAPTAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, Stuart Ewe, p. 86.

earth....’” Genesis 1:26

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declared free from all things in the past that hindered his good pleasure. The Bible must be
pictured as one of those man-made tools of oppression. The Bible must be shown for what it is:
A book designed to destroy pleasure. Freedom and pleasure are pictured in the Bible as
opposites, but the new freedom is the freedom to enjoy pleasure. Even property must be seen as
a restriction on our ownership of pleasure. It is only the government’s total control on all
property that restricts the use of property for anything that might restrict our pleasure and also
allows property to be used for pleasure centers. The government zones residential
neighborhoods so no one will build a factory near our home. The government also controls the
neighborhood and will not allow the neighborhood to rule over itself. Any community
restrictions that restrict the pleasure of private individuals are forbidden: There are no
neighborhoods for traditional families only.

T The new leader is to lead his people by example. He is to be an example of the new
consumer, not a pious, disciplined monk. He is to set the tone for the entire culture.
He is to exalt the nation of buyers, consumers, and pleasure seekers. The laws of the
nation should benefit those who work and spend, not those who strive for property
ownership and personal responsibility.

30 SOCIETY NEEDS UNSOLVABLE PROBLEMS AND UNREACHABLE

VISIONS

A good leader is a perfectionist. He

America was to become for the West a myth
must hold of the goal of perfection to every
of the rebirth of humanity, without the sin or
area of life. No area of life must be allowed
evil or poverty or injustice or persecution
to be free of the perfectionist inspection.
which had characterized the Old World.
Societies are ruled by their utopian visions.
THE CRY FOR MYTH, Rollo May, p. 93-4.
One thing that the leader must never forget is
that people need a heaven to believe in. By
promising heaven now, the leader cannot
only promote a pie in the sky but can sow the seeds of eternal frustration. These two together are
very important for the good shepherd. The leader must promise hope. A utopian hope is best.
That way the leader can never be held accountable. If the hope is too concrete, he can fail at his
promise for a better world. If he promises to build ten thousand new miles of freeways, he can
obviously fall short of that goal. And the amount he falls short of can be measured. But if he
promises to work for a world where traffic delays are a thing of the past, it is harder to measure.
He can always say that we are making progress and all we need are more money and more
commitment from our people.
Also, there are a number of goals that
We all cry for a collective myth which
are even more vague, that can be used to
gives us a fixed spot in an otherwise chaotic
create hope and discontentment. Such goals
universe.
as the end of sexism, the establishment of
THE CRY FOR MYTH, Rollo May, 53.
justice for all, and the end of racism are
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the more hope there is for a world of perfect harmony. And the more they are preached, the
more discontent there is. The leader can use this discontent to discredit his enemies and those
who show a lack of commitment to the heavenly vision. This whole process is not for the
amateur. To promise things and know in advance you are going to fail takes not only courage,
but the ability to redirect criticism to the right people. Richard Nixon could never pull this off,
but Bill Clinton could.
The leader must picture himself as a
. . . utopias are about how people should live,
secular messiah. He rules through a vision of
about human nature, and the meaning and
creating heaven on earth. He preaches of a
purpose of life. . . . with equal access to the
salvation for everyone on earth. Only those
bounty of nature and equal status between
who oppose who rule will no enjoy the
people. . . . Utopias may be concerned with
benefits of the new worldwide kingdom of
the happiness of the individuals in society, or
pleasure and delight. Everyone that opposes
with their ideal organization, and the two
his vision he pictures as fundamentalists,
concerns don’t always fit together very well.
religious fanatics, racial supremacists, and the
They are frequently associated with periods
ignorant. However, his vision should be so
of great social upheaval, and so are
great that it can never be attained. The trick
concerned with the security of the body
is to convince everyone that it is attainable
politic–the state–rather than individual
with enough effort and sacrifice. The truth is
happiness.
that the problems portrayed by the ruler are
UTOPIA, Ian Tod and Michael Wheeler, p.7.
beyond solution. He must use the language
of the Bible, while denying the truth of the
Bible. In a sense, the new leader is to offer a
replacement for heaven and use the problems of this earth as his stepping stones to power and
control.

T The new leader provides a religious vision for the masses. He preaches of creating a
heaven on earth, and uses that vision to ensure his agenda and rule over everyone
and everything. Every loss of income or freedom is pictured as part of some greater
good. For example, the price of oil is kept high through restrictions on exploration
and drilling–for the good of the environment, of course. Or, the dependence of
everyone on expensive automobiles and the associated expenses can be blamed on
greedy industrialists, but never government policy.

31 THE NEW SOCIETY NEEDS A LARGE NUMBER OF PRISONS

One of the least talked about aspects of the new nation is the need for prisons and even
more prisons. There is a total lack of understanding of how important prisons are to the survival
of the whole system. Prisons are actually of a rather recent origin. There were prisons for the
insane, but not for just plain criminals. First of all, it takes money to run a prison system and it
takes a lot of people. It takes a fairly prosperous society and one with a surplus of laborers to
accomplish this. A farming community with small resources cannot spare the money or the

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manpower. Today, some look back on the stockade and the public whippings as being cruel.

The prison as a correctional and rehabilitative institution was the invention of the early
nineteenth-century reform movement in the United States. Visitors from all over Europe
came to see these correctional ‘wonders.’ The most famous of these visitors was Alexis de
Tocqueville, who came from France in 1831 to see our prisons, and who then wrote the most
insightful study of American institutions in the nineteenth century, which also became the
earliest major work in the discipline of sociology, Democracy in America (1835, 1840).
TOOLS OF DOMINION, Gary North, p. 405.

But they were low cost and did not require a staff to maintain. And they seemed to work.
You have to realize that the crimes being committed were against real people. These
were not crimes against some impersonal insurance company or against the Internal Revenue
Service. And they were crimes that were considered against the community in which the person
lived. Public punishment was considered a deterrent. There was a different view of man. This
was a theological society based on the view that punishments (such as hell) were a deterrent.
There was no thought of reforming the person. All people were expected to conform to basic
social roles or else. Today such physical and psychological punishment is not considered as
proper behavior. But there is more to it than just a modern sensitivity. The new society demands
it.
The good shepherd requires more and
In a sense, the prison is analogous to the
more laws to rule the modern society and
final judgement. . . . The ultimate earthly
more and more punishments to keep people
prison is the concentration camp. . . . There
in line. It is not good to have public
is only one way to explain this: the desire of
floggings for IRS violations. Or would a
the State to become God and to impose hell
society tolerate a row of people in stocks for
on earth. It became a goal of State policy to
drunk driving. Punishment must be kept out
destroy men’s lives, to leave them without
of sight. No one must ever be aware of the
earthly hope in the future. It was easy to go
true numbers of people in prison or for the
to jail without a trail. . . . The prison is a
offences they are in for. It is okay to publish
bureaucracy, not a market-oriented
the numbers, they are abstract, but the public
institution. It is run by the State through
viewing of criminals would create the image
taxes’ it is a bureaucratic, management
of a gulag society. We do have one but it is
system, not a profit management system.
invisible. And the idea of punishment is also
Men are trained to follow orders, not to
banished. The leader promotes the idea that
innovate, take risks, and meet market
people who do not act properly are being
demand. . . . The prison also creates other
treated with the best of mental training and
horrors, such as homosexuality and training
they are being housed in humane living
in criminal behavior for the younger inmates
quarters. That takes the sting out of the
by the ‘skilled’ older inmates.
prison system.
TOOLS OF DOMINION, Gary North, pp.
The new leader understands that the
406-8.
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sense, what the leader learns through his prisons can be used to control the greater society. The
real goal is to create a society in which everyone is a prisoner, although a humanely treated one.
The whole idea of prisons is that people are not in control and they are in need of some form of
help or therapy. The people of a society are not capable of self rule unless they meet a certain
standard, which is determined by the new leader. The human is to be compared to an animal and
the criminal is merely one of the animals that escaped from the proper training in his youth. He
needs to be ‘society broken.’ The new leader uses the prison not only to instill fear in the general
population, but to instill the proper philosophy of man into every person: Improper training and
the environment make for criminals, and proper training of human can lead to excellent social
behavior in the right environment.
The good shepherd must be seen at all times as the really good shepherd. He cares about
his people and he would not hurt anyone. As more and more laws are passed to control people
the leader must emphasize that he would not hurt anyone. The whole system is there not to
control people but to heal them so that we can have a better world. People do not want to see
chain gangs beside the freeway. That would put fear into the average person. That could be me
out there, is the thought. Such fear might lead to the desire to reform society and the loss of
power by the leader. And as more and more people go to jail for humane healing, the more the
leader can expand the control over society without much protest.

T One of the first of the new leaders was Abraham Lincoln. He imprisoned almost
forty thousand Northerners without a trial. His plan could never have been
achieved without such a prison system. He had no qualms about killing people, but
prison serves a better function. It is vital not to create martyrs, but it is also
important to break one’s enemies. The potential cruelties and pain of a prison also
keeps future enemies under control. Fear and pain controls people better than
firing squads.

32 INHERITANCE MUST BE ELIMINATED

There is another motivation for people to act that must be eliminated. The leader has
already worked to destroy the motivation of groups and families. The leader has already worked
to destroy the motivation of religion. One more form of motivation must be destroyed. People
will often do things and take actions so they can pass on ideas or possessions to their kids. This
idea must be eliminated. For centuries a large motivating force has been the idea of progress and
passing on a better world to one’s kids. The idea is that one person has experience or created
things that he wants his kids to have. A family works to create capital of some kind, often with a
great deal of effort, to pass on to their kids. One reason many accumulate more than they need,
is for this reason. Such accumulation is not only a source of power, it is also a source of
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 The leader will always work to
. . . the family is the major instrument in all
destroy both independent sources of power
history in furthering special privileges for its
and financial sources of freedom. There is
members. Goethe expressed the matter
only one power and all power must come
thus:
from the leader and his government. Also,
Really to own what you inherit
people who have financial independence have
You must first earn it by your merit.
time to accomplish tasks beyond the daily
This means that inheritance taxes must be
pursuit of making a living and enjoying the
used to destroy the family’s desire to confer
pleasures of life. As has been mentioned, the
special privileges on it members.
rat race is for a reason. People pre-occupied
In a family-oriented society, not only do
with daily affairs will not resist the things the
people favor their own relatives and their
leader does. A nation must thank the leader
friends, but they add to the special privilege
for their daily “bread.” And return again
factor by increasing the advantages of those
tomorrow for more daily bread. When people
who are advanced or are hard-working and
feel free, even on minor issues, or feel in
pleasing.
control over small areas of life, they often
This flagrant rewarding of initiative and
want to branch out into areas the leader has
success is an outrage to many.
set aside only for himself.
INSTITUTES OF BIBLICAL LAW, Rousas
The other form of inheritance is the
J. Rushdoony, pp. 641-2.
desire to pass on ideas and experiences to
one’s children. This type of behavior not
only resists change, but tends to create
classes. This must not be allowed. The new
leader must destroy the leadership of parents. Their experiences represent the past. Their ideas
are usually not those of the leaders. The earlier the children can be separated from their parents
the better. The children must be trained to expect nothing from their parents. The parents are to
view life as only one generation long. The children are to be trained that their parents’ ideas are
out of date. Just as the parents are to live for only themselves, so the children must see
themselves as alone in time. Their life consists not in the accumulation of property or capital,
but the amassing of hedonistic pleasures.
The very idea of a hedonistic society and the idea of inheritance are mutually exclusive.
The leader wants a society that is oriented toward pleasure. It is much easier for a leader to
supply pleasure than it is to provide philosophical contentment. Revolutions are fought for ideas
and wars are fought for future generations. Revolutions are not fought for more pleasure. Also,
morality is one of those things that are often associated with inheritance. Parents want to pass on
a moral ethic to their children. Most ethics are not about pleasure, so here too, the parents must
be defeated. Also, ethics implies discipline. Discipline goes against the idea of pleasure. The
bottom line is that any connection between parents and their children must be eliminated. They
are to have fun together and that is all.

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 . . . [This is] the basic law of inheritance. What we inherit from our parents is life itself,
and also the wisdom of their faith and experience as they transmit it to us. The continuity of
history rests in this honor and inheritance. A revolutionary age breaks with the past and turns
on parents with animosity and venom: it disinherits itself. To respect our elders other than our
parents is to respect all that is good in our cultural inheritance. The world certainly is not
perfect, nor even law-abiding, but, although we come into the world naked, we do not enter an
empty world. The houses, orchards, fields, and flocks are all the handiwork of the past, and
we are richer for this past and must honor it. . . . the family inherits from the past in order to
grow firmly into the future.
To lay waste our inheritance, whether in the animal world or on the level of our family, is
to deny life. It is playing god; it is assuming that we made ourselves and can remake our
world.
INSTITUTES OF BIBLICAL LAW, Rousas, J. Rushdoony, pp. 166-7, 169.

The leader should institute a system in which he claims everyone is freed from their past
and its restrictions. Public schools and regular examinations will sort individuals by their talents,
and each child will be separated from parental advantage, monied advantage, and social
advantage. Only those who do well, by the leader’s standards, will be promoted within the new
society that the leader plans. This idea appeals to the masses and it gives the new leader the
power to pass on privileges to those who meet the standards desired by the new global culture.
In the name of social equality, the new leader can restrict those who would oppose his plans, or
whose family background or religious beliefs would make the promotion of such an individual a
dangerous thing. The leader should always disguise his plans behind his public desire to achieve
equality for all.

T The leader knows that those who view life as beginning at conception and lasting
through eternity have a different view of life than the new order requires. It is vital
that life be defined as between birth and death. We bring nothing into life and we
take nothing with us or leave nothing to others. Life is now each person is to live in
terms of only now.

33 THE CHURCH OR TEMPLE MUST BE SEEN AS A SOCIAL OBLIGATION

There are going to be churches or their various counterparts in a society. To attack the
churches head on will only be seen as an attack, which it is. Therefore, the leader must destroy
churches while at the same time promoting them. A true church in the traditional sense has
always fought the good shepherd in the government so that their version of the good shepherd
should rule in his stead. Obviously, this is not an option in the new leader’s society. The
problem has always been that to attack the church openly is to wake up some of its slumbering
members. This cannot be allowed to happen. At the same time, the church must not be allowed
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 In order to disable to the church,
. . . a single global technological
encourage the natural reticence individuals to
civilization is rapidly establishing itself.
take a position that might cost them some
From its point of view, religion increasingly
personal loss. The church as an organization
looks like a troublesome survival from the
must become dependent on the government.
past: a local and traditional way of
The easiest way is to provide benefits with no
symbolizing, enacting, and combatively
strings attached. There are strings attached
asserting one’s own distinctive ethnic
but those will come later. Most people will
identity, in the face of the theat of
sign a blank sheet of paper if there is
assimilation into the all-encompassing
something in it for them. The churches are
anonymity of the new global culture.
merely asked to register with the Internal
Religion everywhere seems to be embattled,
Revenue Service so that any contributions to
fighting a rearguard action that it must
them can be deducted. Without such a
eventually lose.
benefit the churches cannot survive. They all
AFTER GOD, Don Cupitt, p. ix.
sign.
The next step is merely to threaten to
take away such a deduction if the church
takes a stand contrary to the approved government position. The first such requests should be
over very minor issues that are of no consequence. The government may say that the church is
merely to submit to annual safety checks or lose their status as a qualified charity. Who could
refuse such a request without being made to appear silly? After all, are we not all for public
safety? But the real reason is the threat behind the request. By submitting to a safety inspection
the church has now come under government regulation. The pattern has been established. The
next time the church needs to remodel or expand, there are more requests tied to the threat of

Moral values live, and they swim or sink, in our daily public converse, exactly like and
along with economic values. People on the Right are very illogical if they refuse to
acknowledge that everything nowadays is beginning to float on a free global market–not only
money and prices but also linguistic meanings, religious truths, and moral aesthetic values.
AFTER GOD, Don Cupitt, p. xi.

government sanctions.
By the time anyone has caught onto what is happening, the church has become so
financially dependent upon approved contributions that any stand at all would be fatal. Also,
most members will see the current issue as just the continuation of the policies. It would not pay
make sense to make a stand at this late date. The final goal must be always kept in mind and
each step of enslavement be so small that it would appear ridiculous to risk all for such a small
step. Of course, all of the steps taken by the government are only for the good of the people and
the safety its members. We cannot have unsafe buildings. We cannot have sex deviants working
in the church. We cannot have nurseries that do not meet proper health care standards. We
cannot have church schools that do not teach approved knowledge. The list grows endlessly as
more and more issues become the concern of the good shepherd.
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church is Catholic, Baptist, or Muslim. They will all have to meet the same government
regulations and will all live in fear of the good shepherd. A final technique is the use of the
government’s force against small and obnoxious church groups. Churches must be found that
are outside the realm of public decency. Society being what it is, there will always be an
embezzler or child molester in some small church somewhere. Find that church and move in and
show such a concern for its people that no one would dare protest. Every action by the good
shepherd is for the good of everyone. This must be repeated over and over. It is the leader’s
mantra.
The issue that must never be allowed to be discussed is this: Why is the government the
only agency concerned about people? Are the people in a church totally unconcerned about
safety? Are they capable of taking care of themselves without the government’s help? And of
course, the government must always be the only one qualified to care for its people. Left to
themselves, they will quickly return to the slums and filth. It is only the good shepherd who can
prevent the return to the dark ages. It is easy to see how this piece is just another piece in
creating a fearful and helpless people. Each individual must always be made to feel that without
the government’s protection his live is in danger.
Wherever the individual steps he must be made to see class conflicts, greedy
corporations, con artists, incompetent contractors, and danger at every turn. He stands alone in a
universe that is totally out of control. Control can only come from the government. The only
choice must appear to be between total government control and anarchy. There is no middle
ground. Here again, there are enough idiots when you have two hundred and fifty million people
that there are always examples. Find one polluter in Cattle Crossing, Montana, and the whole
world appears full of people just waiting to pollute. Expand the list indefinitely and you have
the image of a very threatening world. The leader must always keep repeating: No one is safe;
no one competent, we are all alone; and death and destruction are behind every door.

T Traditionally, the church leaders have always opposed leaders who attempt to
change the teachings of the church. The new leader must destroy the church by
uniting their organization with his new cultural myths. The church must be
brought to the point where it advocates freedom, democracy, equality, patriotism,
and unity. The leader should use the dangers of various cults to scare religious
people into adopting his new rational faith. This new faith will enable all church
members to adjust to the norms of the new world culture.

34 THE FAMILY MUST BE SEEN AS AN OBSOLESCENT DUTY.

One of the reasons that people will not follow the new leader is that they have personal
obligations that take precedence over loyalty to the shepherd. These obligations must be made to
appear as something out of the dark ages. Obviously, it will not take too much effort to find
unhappy people. These unhappy souls are the poster children for the new way. Their lives can
be shown how the tragedies in their lives have been caused by their relationships. No one wants
to be saddled with raising a family when you could be doing more fun things. No one wants to
be home helping their mate when they could be playing golf or tennis. No kid wants his parents

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telling what he can and cannot do. The list goes on endlessly.
The rule must be that when we engage with other people it must be one our own terms
and only for short periods of time. Relationships are recreational. We get together to have fun
but nothing else is implied. Historical sex has been associated with long term relationships. The
new society must view sex as any other human activity designed for temporary pleasure: Just
because you play golf with someone does not mean you are under any other personal obligation.
And the same standards should apply to sex as to any other recreational activity. The official
philosophy must be that before government programs to relieve suffering, people needed to find
ways to make others feel indebted to us.
The family has always been a
substitute for government services. The The expression ‘the paradox of freedom’
problem with relying on the family is that means that whenever we exercise our
there are no guarantees that the services will freedom we limit ourselves, simply by
arrive. Often people are frustrated when choosing one alternative over another. And
their mate leaves them, or their kids refuse this is the joy of moral freedom. As G. K.
to help with their end of the bargain. It is Chesterton put it, ‘the liberty for which one
like being forced to beg or become a should chiefly care is the liberty to bind
prostituted in order to be assured that I can oneself.’ . . . Licence basically means you can
count on services being provided. When it do what you like without fear of restraint, and
comes down to it, the only person that I can it is the farthest thing from freedom because
count on is my own self. The new shepherd it means you have no immediate
must not only encourage the above feelings, responsibilities or obligations. . . .
he must see that all feelings of insecurity Unfortunately, the Freedom Illusion has done
and need are directed to the leader and his the greats harm to our society by substitutting
programs. self-gratification and licence for the true
The new leader must promise total meaning of moral freedom, which has to do
freedom. In the name of freedom all with our freedom to make binding
individual obligations on a personal level commitments.
must be destroyed. Social independence is WAR AGAINST THE FAMILY, Gairdner,
the goal of society. People must look upon p.27-8.
all relationships as to the effects it will have
on their freedom. And freedom must be
equated with personal happiness. All must be made to feel that if they are not happy it is
because there is something that is restricting their freedom. The suggestion then must be, that it
is other people who are a threat to our ego and our personal satisfactions. It is such a simple
truth, that it rarely goes unchallenged.
The consequences of this line of reasoning are ideal for the new shepherd. Total freedom
will eventually result in social chaos. No one can live in chaos. A world cannot be patterned
after Henry Thoreau’s cabin the woods. There must be a social order. The unspoken rule is that
people who are totally independent of all other people will become totally dependent on the
government and the services it offers. The best way to enslave the masses is to promise them
freedom. Total freedom will eventually lead to anarchy. Anarchy demands that someone step in
and restore order. The usual method for restoring order is for a leader to promise order at the
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 This whole process starts with government education. Schools must train the young from
the very first in the ways of total independence. That is why the only good school is one that is
separated from the parents. Home schooling prolongs the idea of dependence and obligation.
Once the child has been separated from his parents, he must also be separated from other adults
except for the government instructor. The child must see his immature peers as his whole world.
Anyone who has watched children play knows the chaos that results. Arguing and fighting is
the rule. Into this confusion the teacher can step in to restore order. The teacher thus represents
the new shepherd that the child is being trained to look to for solutions.
The real purpose of government education must be the teaching of the young that they are
on this planet for their own pleasure. Unfortunately there are other people who are out there that
are not nice as you. The real evil in this world are those greedy others who will take advantage
of you and your desire for personal pleasure. These evil people are those corporations and other
impersonal operations that will do anything for their personal pleasure. These evil men must be
controlled. The only way a weak individual can stand up and prevent the world from being
destroyed is to form an alliance with the government against all evil. The children must be
programmed to look to the shepherd to protect them from the evils that will prevent their own
personal pleasure.

T The new leader must come between children and their parents. The age of social
obligations must be destroyed in favor of the isolated individual and his life’s goals.
The destruction of all obligations is also the destruction of Western Civilization.
The new civilization should be based upon only the central government, and the
isolated individual, separate from all others.

35 LARGE SCALE IMMIGRATION WILL DESTROY CULTURAL UNITY

One of the other sources of identity that people feel is their sense of ethnic heritage. This
is especially true of Anglo-Saxons. The new leader must do everything in his power to lessen
resistence. One of the best ways is to create a society made up of a number of ethnic groups.
Each group should be separate from the other groups. Each group should be encouraged to
preserve their ethnic heritage. As each groups battles for public space, it limits the power of all
other groups in society. The new leader should always picture his goal as one of creating a new
unified society out of the chaos of ethnic divisions. In actuality, ethnic divisions are one of his

The architects of statism know that if the sense of privacy, and the historically deep moral
feelings associated with romantic love and sex, can be removed from the function of sex, then
removing taboos and traditions from other areas of human life will be relatively easy. Once
the State invades intimacy itself, converting the private into the public, the intimate into the
banal, then what is public becomes paramount over what was private. The equation carried in
the minds of those–especially the young–who have been through this ‘morals striping’ process
goes like this: ‘If the State was right about something as powerful as sex, ir must be right
about everything else, too.’
THE WAR AGAINST THE FAMILY, William D. Gairdner, p. 29.

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most powerful allies. His policies should thus have the twin goals of unity and division.
What the leader must fear is an organized opposition among a large number of people.
This cannot be allowed to happen. But to take on the opposition in a direct frontal attack only
hardens the opposition. All attacks must be done in such a way that there is no way the leader
will appear as the instigator. To accomplish this the leader should encourage both legal and
illegal immigration of groups that will not align themselves with the groups that see themselves
as the cultural leaders. After a family, a person will most naturally align himself with some
ethnic or cultural heritage. It has already been pointed out the necessity of breaking up the
family. That having been accomplished, the ethnic groups must be attacked.
This goal, division through immigration, must not be presented in those terms obviously.
The leader presents his goal through the most idealistic and humanitarian reasons. It must never
appear that he is trying to break up a cultural homogeneity. The Statue of Liberty is the best
example of this tactic. America was regarded up until this time as a haven for white Europeans.
They tended to align themselves with Western Civilization. The call must go for every misfit
from all over the world to come to the United States. It must be pictured as one of the great
humanitarian acts of all of history. Every outcast for whatever reason will be welcomed to this
nation.
Once this goal has been achieved, the next step must be the portrayal of the new group as
the victim of the established group. This usually does not require too much effort. Not only do
these natural differences exist between the groups, there are competitive differences. Groups
tend to look after their own. People of like nature, tend to associate together. But in any
economy the new group also is in competition with the older group for jobs and government
favors. All that is necessary for conflicts to arise is for the limitation of resources, such as occurs
during a normal recession. When such a recession does occur, it is important for the groups to be
pitted against each other. A big deal can be made out of the parceling out of government help
through ethnic and racial quotas.
No longer will one look upon himself as an American. One must now look upon himself
as part of some group. The image of the melting pot can be maintained for propaganda purposes,
but the real image must be that of a jungle. Groups will more and more see other groups as the
enemy. If it were not for that other group, all would be well. Here is where the new leader must
impose new laws. He must move in as the great peace maker who seeks to provide for all. He
must be seen as doing everything possible to restore order. In fact, his immigration policies
have brought about the whole situation. No matter. The particular groups will be so afraid of
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 It is but too common a remark of late, that the American character has within a short time
been sadly degraded by numerous instances of riot and lawless violence in action, and a
dangerous spirit of licentiousness in discussion. . . . There are some who rashly attribute it to
the natural tendency of Democracy, which they say is essentially turbulent. This is the most
dangerous opinion of any that is advanced, as it must of necessity weaken the attachment of
those who advance it, to our form of government, and must produce in them a criminal
indifference to its policy, or traitorous desires for its overthrow.
One great opposing cause that embarrasses the benevolent operations of the country has
apparently been wholly left out of the calculation, and yet it is a cause, which, more than all
others, one would think, ought first to have attracted attention. This cause is Foreign
Immigration. . . . How is it possible that foreign turbulence imported by ship-loads,
that riot and ignorance in hundreds of thousands of human priest-controlled machines, should
suddenly be thrown into our society, and not produce here turbulence and excess? Jcan one
throw mud into pure water and not disturb its clearness?
IMMINENT DANGERS TO THE FREE INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES
THROUGH FOREIGN IMMIGRATION, Samuel F. B. Morse, pp. 4-5.

Everyone develops the attitude that if it were not for the good shepherd there would be
an all-out race war. Just as Adam Smith used to talk about the invisible hand, the new leader
must be the author of the real invisible hand. The various groups must never suspect that the
shepherd manipulates the whole process. The shepherd and his policies are the new unity. No
one bites the hand that feeds them and the leader must be sure that he is the hand that feeds them.
Also, there will be no great cry for freedom out of fear of what the other group might do. The
beauty of this whole system is that no one ever suspects that the great peace keeper is the very
one who started the whole war. The use of propaganda maintains the image of the leader really
having no control over the events that caused the conflicts, but is doing his best to solve the
problem.

T The new leader understands that it is much better to use other people and guilt to
fight his battles than to attack his enemies directly. To use an extreme example, to
allow cannibals to immigrate into America, will create social conflicts. The new
group and the established groups will have no common law system. Social peace
can only be achieved through the imposition of a new law system by the leader
which forces both groups to change their behavior–for the social good, of course.
The resulting new laws desired by the leader will be accepted. An acceptance which
would not have existed apart from the ethnic conflict.

36 THE NEW NATION MUST HAVE A NEW ARCHITECTURE

The ruler must see to it that every detail reflects his desires. Nothing can be left to
chance. He may proclaim chance rules and all is chaos, but that is only for public

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consumption. He knows better. One of the details that must be used is the creation of a national
architecture that reflects the new realities. If you go to Europe and visit some of the great old
cities you will often find a peacefulness in one’s heart as one walks the streets. There is
something about the city that strikes a cord in one’s heart. The reason is that architecture reflects
the beliefs of the people that live in those environments. Our architecture does not reflect life at
a slower pace. Our architecture is designed
to sell and to maintain a constant flow of
The people involved in this work [of
people.
building preservation] speak, often, not just
We have environments designed for
of architectural beauty but of the character of
leisure and some for pleasure and some for
a place, or its essential spirit, or the quality of
selling. Each is designed as a commodity to
lie there, or of its livability, genius, flavor,
be bought and sold. We live in a
feeling, ambience, essence, resonance,
environment that has totally transformed us
presence, aura, harmony, grace, charm, or
and we have totally transformed the
seemliness. These are probably allusion to an
environment. We have gone from being a
actual direct experience of some place. And
total person who prefers to interact with a
mention of ‘people places,’ or of the
total environment to a specialist. It is like we
individuality of specific place, or the urban or
have a cord sticking outside of our body with
rural or wilderness quality there, or its scale,
a plug on it. We travel to different locations
or human scale, or visual charm, or beauty, or
to push this plug into many different
scenic quality, will most likely be an attempt
architectural environments. We plug it into
to convey some specific component of an
the theme park, we plug it into the shopping
experience.
mall, or we plug it into the church. Whatever
THE EXPERIENCE OF PLACE, Tony Hiss,
we feel our particular need is, we just go
p. 15.
there, and plug our experience connector into
the environment.
The new shepherd must keep this in
mind when selling his programs and seeking to attain votes. We are no longer the humble
human seeking meaningful interaction with other humans. We are seeking an experience or a
transaction. Our new ideas of freedom are not about teaching a particular history or view of life
to our kids, it is about the ability to plug into as many experiences as possible. There is some
remnant of the farm ideal of a ‘barn-raising’ or local grange meeting in all of us. And while the
propagandist can use these memories to mold ideas, the new leader must realize where people
really live. They live in the houses and the strip malls and the sub-division. This is the type of
architecture which promotes the government dependent person.
The leader must never give in to these fantasies of a golden farm age. If a person wants
to get the feeling of living in the past, he can go to an amusement park that specializes in this
type of experience. The cities must be built without the traditional neighborhoods. The
experiences of shopping, visiting friends, and going to the park must be separate commodities
both in architecture and in people’s minds. An architectural style that makes people want to
interact, and to slow down, is not useful to building the new communities. The great thing about
controlling the environment is that no one will realize that the very way everything is organized
affects the way they think.
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through government schools. And of course, the school should also reflect the environment of
the modern factory. The school buildings should not reflect beliefs that no leader wants the
children to learn. Obviously, we could build schools to look like Swiss alpine villages. But such
buildings would not prepare the youth to live in the new architecture of plug-in pleasure. By
having beliefs built into the architecture, reform ideas are much less likely to catch on. The
beliefs of the new society will be so ingrained into the environment that no one will be able to
imagine living any other way. That is how the leader wants. This is not only the best of all
possible worlds, it is the only possible world. All who oppose the leader are made to appear as
opposing reality itself. Only a fool would take a stand against gravity.

T The shepherd must create individuals who desire his services. The nation is to be
constructed around specialized modules. The individual learns that every need has
a specific location. The new citizen learns to satisfy his needs by knowing the
location that fulfills every need. This directs him to the governmentally designed
locations, and it keeps him from looking to his friends and neighbors for his basic
human needs.

37 ALL LEADERS NEED AN OPPOSITION DEVIL

Sometimes it is easier to motivate people with hatred than it is with positive ideals. The
ultimate hatred is the Christian idea of the devil or Satan. Any good philosophy of life that
denies Christianity is well disposed to offer a new devil for the masses to vent their hatred upon.
The leader must locate a group or groups that oppose his policies. The best group in today’s
world is to picture religious extremists as the new devil. People have already thoroughly
prepared mentally that religious people are not in touch with the real world. Of course, the
shepherd gets to define the meaning of “real”. And any opposition is most likely to come from
this type of group. Thus, a shepherd can not only get rid of his main opposition, but use them to
carry out his purposes.
There will always be problems in
The general picture emerges that
society. All problems must have a source. If
individuals, when frustrated or unhappy, tend
a source is not found, the idea might develop
to displace aggression onto groups that are
that the leader’s plans are themselves to be
visible, and are relatively powerless.
blamed. It is important to have extremist
Moreover, the form the aggression takes
groups to blame. Thus, while a leader wants
depends on what is allowed or approved by
to denounce the actions of an extremist
the in-group in question.
group, he does not want to eliminate them.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Aronson, Wilson,
He wants to use them. Any group that is
and Akert, p. 525.
actually a serious threat must be eliminated.
Baring some extreme crisis, such a group
existing in today’s world will not survive for
long. Even the “so-called” extremist groups would unite behind a real threat. What the leader
wants above all are pseudo threats. They can be used without being a threat and can actually be
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eliminated with just the rounding up of a hundred leaders.
The power of hate is enormous. It is impossible to fight a war without the mobilizing of
hatred. It seems innate within all of us for the need to express hatred. The leader must make use
of this prime motivator. While a few may find comfort in job, hearth, and home, most require
something concrete and powerful to raise their attention level. It is like in a sporting event.
Nothing sells tickets like a hatred for the opposing team. Some will show up just to watch the
game, but most want the evil opponent smashed. It helps if the opponent has black uniforms or
caps. The darkness of evil is a fundamental. In fact, in the absence of everyday evil, people will
create it through sporting events. The leader will encourage such sporting events. This keeps the
spirit of hatred alive while can then be redirected at any time necessary.
The official term is to scapegoat. The important thing to remember that men project
their hostilities onto powerless groups. It is the leaders job to make sure that the groups that he
uses be powerless except in the image created for them. Also, society will project their
frustrations onto officially approved groups for such person. The leader by example must point
out which groups he finds distasteful and “dangerous”. By using loaded words to describe
groups that are out of favor it makes it much easier for people to attack them. After all, who
would not want to attack a hate group? And
who would dare come to the defense of hate?
To examine the consequences of guilt,
In order to break the resistence of
social psychologists have induced people to
those might oppose scapegoating, it is
transgress: to lie, to deliver shock, to knock
necessary to instill a sense of guilt into
over a table loaded with alphabetized cards,
society. People who feel guilty over some
to break a machine, to cheat. Afterward, the
misdeed are much more guilty to need a
guilt-laden participants may be offered a way
scapegoat. And it helps if the person feels
to relieve their guilt: by confessing, by
guilty toward the leader and his new social
disparaging the one harmed, or by doing a
order. The best way to produce guilt is
good deed to offset the bad one. The results
through such a system as the income tax
are remarkably consistent: People will do
laws. Many of the laws are intentionally
whatever can be done to expunge the guilt
vague. Most will err in their own favor. This
and restore their self-image.
will result in a certain feeling of obligation
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, David G. Myers,
toward the government. This is a good
p. 524.
feeling upon which the leader can draw. We
naturally want to earn the good favor of those
more powerful than we are. Especially those
that we might have wronged. Other forms of implied social shortcomings are also important to
impart to a population such as racism and sexism.

T The leader understands that evil resides in all people. Most people are looking for
ways to purify themselves. The many false religions cater to this need. But it is also
important that the leader provide an outlet for those who feel some social guilt. A
nation can be unified around a leader who leads them down the paths of social
purification. The focusing of the nation upon some evil unites everyone in a
common bond and feels good about a leader who makes them feel pure and
accepted.

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 38 THE WORKPLACE SHOULD BECOME THE NEW FAMILY AND BASIC
SOCIAL UNIT

With the breakdown of normal social relations, substitutes need to be provided. The
work place can become one of the most productive substitutes for past feelings of belonging.
With corporations looking for ways to increase productivity, the establishment of family ties will
create an environment conducive to productivity. This is not an option, but a necessity. With the
disappearance of the traditional family, substitutes must be found. The building of workplace ties
also can be more permanent than the family. Moving from a job today can involve personal
costs and in many ways the new job is more permanent than the family. Because of fringe
benefits accumulated through seniority, most are very reluctant to leave their jobs.
On the surface this does not sound like a topic that the new leader would be interested in
any way. That is not the case. Large corporations are very responsive to government
regulations. They can be easily controlled. The new shepherd can use this responsiveness to
change the way people think and behave. It was nearly impossible for the government to move
in and regulate the traditional family. By the very word “traditional,” it implies a resistence to
change. The modern corporation is born out of change and is constantly changing. Change is an
accepted part of the life of any business. The new leader moves in with suggestions and
regulations which the business is advised to follow. Any resistence to the suggestions has the
implied threat of government regulation.
One of the new powers of the modern corporation is the use of personality management
upon its workers. The large business must not only manage people for more productivity, it must
manage people so that they form a team. With a multi-racial, multi-ethic, and multi-religious
work force, ways must be found to unify this diverse group into a homogeneous whole. This
purpose fits in well with the new shepherd’s goal of the formation of a new type of nation.
Pressure can be applied to the corporation to use their power and its captive audience to create
the new man. Workers can be required to attend psychological training which they would never
even think of attending outside of the workplace. Just as the church used to teach people the
doctrines of the Bible, the new corporation must teach its workers the doctrines of the new
worker.
The leader must see to it that the government schools resemble the corporation. There
will be less resistance to the teaching corporation if the worker has spent his entire life in a
structure that resembles the new business organization. People just do not automatically form
impersonal relationships and think they are real. They must be trained to think that working
together is a meaningful relationship. The classroom can fulfill this function. The students can
learn to interact in the classroom setting. The discussions monitored by the teacher can be used
to create a false sense of personal communication. Students can be made to feel that sitting
around and talking about the national healthcare crisis is participating in reality.
The school can be used to isolate the individual from his heritage, to force him into new
social mixes, and to destroy all natural loyalties. The school becomes the new primary reference
point. The student’s loyalty can be transferred to the school’s sports teams: ‘Go Big Blue’
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separating students according to their test scores, they learn that all are not equal in the new
world of social training. Also, the students are isolated by function. Educational adjustment to a
corporate life becomes the goal, just like a corporation manufactures products. Kids commute
to perform the educational production routine. This is just like real life. The life the leaders
want his people to look upon as real.
The school and the business must
The net effect of holding children in
become one in order to build the new man for
confinement for twelve years without honor
the new shepherd. The government must
paid to the spirit is a compelling
discourage any alternative form of education.
demonstration that the State considers the
For example, the old one-room school house
Western spiritual tradition dangerous. And of
did a better job of educating the whole
course it is. School is about creating loyalty
person. There was an interaction between all
to certain goals and habits, a vision of lie,
age levels. Older students were expected to
support for a class structure, an intricate
be mentors. And the school was seen as an
system of human relationships cleverly
extension of the family. The parents and
designed to manufacture the continuous low
teachers were closely associated, and the
level of discontent upon which mass
education catered to the interests of the local
production and finance rely.
community. The student that graduates from
THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF
this type of school will not fit in well with the
AMERICAN EDUCATION, John Taylor
new impersonal global multi-national
Gatto, p. 288.
conglomerate. The new factory school
creates a person who has been trained to think
of the impersonal world of the large centrally
located school as the best of all possible worlds.
The student and the worker both must be trained to see their self esteem as being fulfilled
by the full participation in the group process. The loner in the school is to feel just as much as an
outsider as the loner in business. It is only by full participation in the factory that one comes to
feel that life has meaningful purpose. Both the factory school and the factory business must be
built on the principles of the Skinner Box. A maze must be created for all to navigate. Rewards
are given to those who navigate the maze and achieve the desired results. In schools the rewards
are grades and letterman jackets. In business the rewards are promotions and increased pay.
People must be trained to see these rewards as worthy of working their whole lives for, and not
seeing the emptiness of it all.
The pressures of being re-manufactured into the new man are great. The students must
be trained to see personal pleasure and consumption as the counterpoint to the factory system.
This is why sex education must be part of any government school system. The student must be
trained from early on to see the purpose of life as the creation of as many personal pleasurable
moments. The student must see the consumption of sex or products as the purpose of life. This
training will carry over into life in a corporate world. He will work in the global factory to keep
the supplies of products and pleasures on his psychic table. And because he has spent his entire
life inside this artificially created reality, it will not dawn on him that there exist other possible
worlds. Life is the story of working for the rewards that are offered up as the purpose of life.

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 childhood though adulthood, each individual must learn to see life based on the
corporate model. The traditional family must be replaced with a new type family
that can be managed, and that can find the impersonal corporate world meaningful.
All life must be seen as existing within the world culture that has been created to
maximize production and to see consumption as the goal of living.

39 COMMUNICATION MUST BE TOTALLY TRANSFORMED

Language is the great thing that makes us human. The very words we use and their
meanings shape our personalities. The shaping of the language cannot be left to chance. By
changing language, the leader can limit the ways people understand society. This use of words,
is one of the most revolutionary ideas that the new shepherd must understand. Control words
and their definitions and you control people. This is why one of the new battlefields today is
over the use of words and their definitions. Control words and you control people. Control
definitions and you control how they think. Change the way people talk and you can change the
very cultural systems and the government
itself.
If our concept of words we use is changed
This is why political correctness is so
so that we no long believe those words reflect
concerned with those who use improper
an external reality, then our commitment to
words. There is an understanding that if
external reality itself is undermined.
one’s opponents hold onto their speech
This strong connection between words and
patterns, you have not defeated them. The
our perceptions of external reality makes our
final defeat of any enemy is the defeat of
ability to appreciate reality vulnerable to the
their language. When the former language
manipulation of our language.
has been finally put to rest, the enemy can
THE DEATH OF REALITY, Lawrence
then be declared defeated. Therefore, the
Dawson, p. 43.
new leader must so define new words to such
an extent that no one will even realize that the
old meanings have disappeared. For
example, the new definition of freedom has no connection with the definition of freedom from
two hundred years ago. Yet anyone who tries to retrieve the old definition is pictured as
someone using some Appalachian Mountain dialect.
Propaganda is often described as the forcing of ideas onto people. A defeated nation is
submitted to a barrage of manufactured information creating a mirage of guilt which the defeated
people are to adopt as real. This is the overt propaganda but is easy to detect. It is also easy to
confront if someone has access to information that disproves the propaganda. This is the
weakness of propaganda. But there is no such weakness in the use of language as a weapon of
propaganda. Back to the idea of freedom. Those educated in government schools have a wholly
new idea of freedom. It has several meanings. It means one is no longer a slave, such as in the
old South. It means that one is free to choose one’s moral ethic. It means that no other person
has power over me.
The primary definition of freedom, that attracts supporters today, is the doctrine that
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choose to be moral or immoral with consenting adults is considered to be free. It is proclaimed
over and over that no one can tell me what to do. It is repeated so often that very few realize
how limited the new freedom is. The new freedom does not apply when it comes to the
relationship of the individual with any regulating government agency. As such agencies take
over the regulating of life in the name of creating the good life, there is little room for even the
new freedom. A good example is that people can grow marijuana in their own house, use it in
their own house and not involve anyone else, and yet be breaking the law. But the new
regulations are greater than the new freedom
of personal pleasure.
The purpose of Newspeak was not only to
We are all familiar with George
provide a medium of expression for the
Orwell’s book 1984 and its use of new speak.
world-view and mental habits proper to the
There is hardly a more important document
devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other
for the new leader. As often as we joke about
modes of thought impossible. It as intended
Orwell’s thesis not happening, it really has.
that when Newspeak had been adopted once
The problem is not that it did not happen, is
and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical
that so few recognize that it did come true.
thought, a heretical thought–that is, a thought
We do live in a world of Newspeak. The
diverging from the principles of Ingsoc–
proper use of language is one of the current
should be literally unthinkable, at least so far
cultural battlegrounds. Each race is to be
as though is dependent on words.
referred to by their new accepted title, the
1984, George, Orwell, 303.
proper use of gender specific pronouns has
become a mark of one’s liberation from
tradition, and the labeling of opponents
through certain words can spell their doom. For example, what politician could survive an attack
which said he associated with right-wing, neo-Nazi, white- supremacist, anti-Semitic hate-
group? These are words that are used as bullets to kill any discussion of such views.

T The new leader always uses direct control as a last resort. His successful reign of
power requires that he master the art of indirect control over people’s lives and
their mind. The control of words and their meanings is to control the behavior of
the masses. For example, everyone desires freedom, so the leader defines ‘freedom’
in a way that elicits the behavior he desires.

40 CREATE A WORLD OF TRIVIAL REALITY

Distractions must be so much a part of life, that no one will have the time or the
inclination to seek out any other lifestyle than the one provided for by the new shepherd. Some
of the distractions have already been listed such as a constant banter between minor rival power
groups. Listen to the news on television, or scan or local paper. This is the stuff that is to
occupy the minds of the common people. The new leader is to keep so many issues before the
public that reality will appear as a desert made up of particles of sand. Each piece of sand
represents one bit of information programmed daily for publication. As the information piles up
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 Thus, a prime requisite for being a TV news anchor is not necessarily that of being on top of
the news but of being able to mollify us, to soothe us after a long hard day of stress.
When ideas and events themselves no longer carry any badge or mark of instant coherency
and credibility, then the cohesion we need to make sense of our lives has to be carried by some
other elements in our society. In this age of huge, bureaucratic institutions, lacking not only
the personal touch, care, and concern, but also regard for the dignity of either their employees
or those whom they pretend to serve, what better supplier of continuity could there be than the
pleasant faces who make pablum out of chaos and soothe our fragile egos by masquerading as
our ‘friends.’
THE UNREALITY INDUSTRY, Mirtroff and Bennis, pp. 13-14.

world must appear to the average consumer.

It is not just a question of information being overloaded, it is a question of trivial
information being overloaded. So much inconsequential information is published each day that
there is no way anyone can make sense of it all. This is the purpose. The information presented
must be of such a nature that no overall meaning can be discerned. It is to appear like the
random popping of popcorn. The popping is not music, just random noise. Information that ties
together has the appearance of music. It projects a reality that can be discerned. The random
popping is just that random. There is nothing to be learned or understood. It is just noise. And
it is the noise of everyday life that is to be the
real news taught each day.
. . . TV knowledge is essentially visual,
Each piece of random news must be
incoherent, frenetic, lacking context, without
treated as if it were important. The
a larger framework to ground the images that
announcers on television must be like priests
are thrown at the view, and contradictory;
serving communion to the congregation. The
i.e., essentially it is patternless knowledge, if
news items are to be treated as something
that can be called knowledge at all in the
very sacred. And just as no one understands
classic sense of the term.
the real meaning of religious rituals, so the
THE UNREALITY INDUSTRY, Mitroff and
news must be similarly understood. People
Bennis, p. 181.
sit and receive the news and feel like the
person who has been to church. The church
goer and the viewer have done a duty. What
that duty really means is irrelevant. It is something that must be done to be a Christian or an
informed citizen. And just as the average church goer feels part of something, so does the
viewer. But also, just as the average church goer does not really understand why his presence
matters, so the average citizen does not understand his being informed is so important.
As the leader keeps people occupied with trivial matters, the government is then free to
pursue it own political agenda with little interference. After all, reality is so complex, no
amateur would dare invade the domain on issues of such supreme importance. The leader must
be presented a little bit like Jesus and His twelve disciples. The shepherd can be seen conferring
with his Harvard and Yale trained experts. What they talk about is not really said. That is that
the issue. The important thing is that the new leader must appear as the master in charge of fate.

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For example, the average person is not expected to understand the nature of money and how the
government and bankers create money and then earn interest on it. It is too complex except for
only the very elite. The media will report only the trivia involved in finance, not the real issues.
Real issues are not part of the new reality.
If the average viewer does not feel totally overwhelmed after reading or watching the
news, then the leader has not done his job. The whole purpose of creating a trivial reality is to
send people back to little bits of reality they think they can understand and control. Others might
enjoy becoming a spectator of trivial reality by listening to talk shows. This creates the situation
where a person mows his lawn and feels good inside. He has done something he can
understand, can control, and can see the results. Trivial reality has driven him into a private
world. This is good. The trivial spectator gets the same feeling by writing his congressman
about some issue discussed on talk radio. It gives the same feeling as mowing your lawn. But in
the end you are the only one who cares whether you mow your loan or write some letter. But for
the shepherd these and many more acts like them are to be encouraged. This is the reality that
the shepherd is selling. This is the “real”
world created for consumption.
We are preoccupied with unreality
This whole scenario is one reason so
precisely because we lack a good myth, i.e., a
many feel a low level frustration with life.
really good Big Story to give ultimate
They feel sometimes as if life is just not that
meaning and purpose to our lives. The old
big a deal. This is why the shepherd must
myths, the old stories, have collapsed and no
constantly play up the good times that await
new ones have emerged to fill the vacuum.
for those who retire. The new government
. . . given a reality that is too painful to
without a retirement is not possible. This is
bear, the people will drift toward unreality.
one reason why, as society changed from
Great, true leaders and myths are therefore
individuals in control to the government in
necessary to stem the tide.
control, that Social Security was an essential
THE UNREALITY INDUSTRY, p. 193.
part of it. Being in control of one’s life and
one’s destiny gives one a certain satisfaction.
It is its own reward. Take away that reward
and some other reward must be added. Social Security is the best way. It is the carrot on the
stick, but it is a very long stick. The promise is this: Work for fifty years doing something you
really do not want to do and get no satisfaction from, and we will reward you. You can be free
and in control of your destiny after you have served the leader for a time.

T The new leader cannot change human nature, so he must understand how to direct
it to his own ends. The desire to understand the world and to be in control must be
transferred to the leadership. In its place, substitutes must be offered that allow the
masses to think they still have some of their natural human powers left. The masses
must be made to feel that they share in the leadership and his decisions, even when
they do not. And in time, all can retire to a life where they make their own reality
and control their own destiny.

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 The new leader is not looking for a nation of leaders. Society only needs one leader and
several wise counselors. The rest of society must constantly feel that to be a human is a very
precarious thing. Individuals who are vulnerable are good followers. The new shepherd must
work to instill fears and doubts into his people from the very young to the very old. Children
must be taught to see an enemy in every adult. The school should instill a sense of helplessness
in all students. Subjects such as sexual abuse and parental misconduct should be introduced into
the curriculum of the elementary school. Children should be taught to accept a view of the world
that is very threatening. There is no refuge for safety except the government school and the
government paid advisors. From the earliest age the child must feel that the government is the

Society’s prospectivity has shifted modes. What society looks toward is no longer a return
to the promised land but a general disaster that is already upon us, woven into the fabric of
day-to-day life. The content of the disaster is unimportant. Its particulars are annulled by its
plurality of possible agents and times; here and to come. What registers is its magnitude. In
its most compelling and characteristic incarnations, the now unspecified enemy is infinite.
Infinitely small or infinitely large: viral or environmental.
THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY FEAR, ed. by Brain Massumi, p. 11.

old thing he can depend on for safety.

Even in schools a certain amount of chaos is good for the leader’s goals. By allowing
some amount of unruliness to exist (in the name of freedom and individual expression, of course)
in the school the student gains a feeling of being alone. The student is made to feel that even the
world of his peers is very threatening. Once the student has fully accepted the message of total
aloneness in a chaotic universe, he is open to suggestions to quiet his sense of despair. This is
the real purpose of education. The leader should encourage people to argue about test scores and
which subjects should be taught as long as the school is allowed to continue its real mission. As
in all events that the leader programs, deception is vital. Schooling is no exception. Even when
the leader allows a certain amount of violence to exist in a school, all of this must be used as part
of the smoke screen.
One of the other messages that must be taught to the students is the incompetence of
parents in today’s world. Parents must be seen as totally out of touch with the new world created
by the shepherd. One way this can be is the introduction of subjects into the curriculum which
the parents did not have. This is easy today with the teaching of computer skills to children.
Children must be taught how superior they are to their parents. After all, your parents are no
help when it comes to helping you with your computer lessons. In other times, radical ways of
teaching math made parents feel out of touch. There is no way the parents knew what their
children’s lessons were about. All of this is done for a purpose. It not only undermines the
parents’ authority in other areas, it destroys the child’s confidence in his parents. Only the
government school knows how the world really works.
As the young progress through the governmental system, more sophisticated methods
must be used. In the teenage years the insecurity of the average teenager must be manipulated to
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anyone. There is not one kid that when he goes through puberty and enters the adult world that
does not experience a feeling of being out of control. These feelings left to themselves are
harmless. The new leader must see that the school amplifies these feelings. By allowing a low
level of drug use and the amplifying of random insane acts of violence, there is a feeling that
one’s mind is not stable. That what happened to the student being held up as an example that
could happen to anyone. This is certainly frightening to the child. Again, a frightened student is
open to all kinds of suggestions.
As the student progresses into the job market, it is vital that there be periods of
unemployment for the entry level worker. The business cycle must be taught as something that
is part of nature like rain. It could strike anytime with any amount of severity. Every generation
must be made to feel the pain of unemployment and debt. This not only continues the education
into fear, it gives the shepherd a chance to move in and prove to the young worker that the new
shepherd cares about him. He offers financial assistance and programs to help find a new job.
Again, the message is one of a very threatening world where even the best fight just to survive.
With the groundwork already done in the worker’s younger years, the message despair and
powerlessness is easily accepted.
As the person progresses into
More than a hundred years have passed
adulthood, other fears must be accented to
since Nietzsche observed that God was dead,
keep the fears alive. Each stage of a person’s
and it may be that the television anchor,
life is susceptible to different fears. The
parodically sitting at the right hand of
leader must study and understand each stage
nothing, is only monitoring events with the
and be prepared to capitalize on the
rest of humanity, attempting to conjure into
insecurities of each level. As the worker
existence a new home for humanity. But the
becomes established in his job, new fears
home anchor wishes to establish is . . . [in] a
arise. The sense that his days of immunity
permanent state of emergency.
from death and disease must be introduced.
THE POLITICS OF EVERYDAY FEAR,
The press should be used to play up any new
pp. 318-9.
disease or even the threat from each flu
epidemic. Any person that appears to be in
good health and is suddenly stricken makes
for good fear inducement. The idea must be that even when a person eats right and exercises
right gives one no sense of assurance. Disease and death could strike anyone at any moment.
Again, persons caught up in such fears make poor leaders. People that feel helpless even in
regards to their own body are not very likely to have confidence that they can change the world
for the better.
Sometimes when persons become old there is a renewed sense of courage. There is an
acceptance of death and the pains of life. Some people lose their fears at this time in their life.
This age is the most difficult one for the leader to manipulate. The old must be made to feel a
responsibility for the young. There must be a turning of their fearlessness into a fear for their
kids. The old must be directed into the same programs for saving the young that the government
is using. One other method must be to keep the old in fear and that is financial insecurity. The
governmental policies such as medicare, social security, and tax laws for the retired must be as
complex as possible. The forms must be difficult to fill out and the feeling that a person could
lose his entitlement or be in violation of some tax code must be forced into the elderly’s

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consciousness. Again, keep them in fear and insecure with a sense of guilt for the young. Then
they are in control by the new leader.
As you can you. The new world is
As far back as 1994, fifty-nine percent of
very threatening. We are all alone with no
American adults believed doomsday to be
hope. All we have is the pleasure of the day.
very near. Of these individuals, sixteen
As long we feel that the world is a place that
percent saw it happening within several
is nasty, brutish and short, we will not act to
hundred years, twenty-one percent gave earth
change it. We become preoccupied with just
just decades, and twelve percent place the
survival. This is the ideal world for the
terminus of humanity somewhere within a
leader. Just as in times past people were so
few years.
concerned with earning their daily bread that
END TIME VISIONS, Richard Abanes, p.
they were literally slaves to the system even
viii.
though they were called free. It is no longer
politically possible to use food as a great
manipulator, but a person can be made to feel
mentally hungry just as people in the past were physically hungry. We live in a nation of
starving individuals. They are starving in their psyche. They have been told that this is normal
just as governments in the past told people as food shortage was normal. Into such a world, no
one is going to step forward to lead the masses. Even if a fearless leader should have escaped
government programming, who would be fearless enough to follow him? The answer is no one
will. The new shepherd is now in firm control.

T The new leader understands that the theory of evolution is his ally. A world of
chaos ruled by chance is presented as reality. In a world without any intelligent
design, a ruler must be there to give some kind of coherence and reassurance to
those who experience the terror of a godless universe. In fact, the only source with
enough power to confront the powers of the universe is the new leader. The masses
find their security only in the arms of the new shepherd.

42 VOODOO ECONOMICS MUST BE TAUGHT TO THE NATION

No one must be allowed to come into contact with reality anywhere. All reality must be a
manufactured reality. One area where reality has a tendency to break into the mental world is
economics. Economics is one of those subjects that must not be taught in government schools.
There is little to be gained in teaching this subject below the college level. Traditional
economics, that teaches just the law of supply and demand is opening up a taboo subject. The
basic laws of economics are so simple that almost all students can understand them. With a few
simple illustrations every student can come to understand that if you increase the price of
something you decrease the demand. And if you decrease the supply of something you increase
the demand. You place one ugly girl in a boys school and you have a very good example of a
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 Another law that is simple to
In economics, as elsewhere in life, while
understand is this: Bad money drives out
we are free to do whatever we wish, we are
good. Any kid who played marbles growing
not free to have the consequences be
up knows this law. Every kid had his marbles
whatever we want them to be. . . .
sorted by good marbles and bad marbles.
Economics is a study of the consequences of
Cheap ones or chipped marbles were not
various ways of allocating scarce resources
worth much. If your opponent in a game put
which have alternative uses. It is not a study
bad marbles in the pot, you put bad marbles.
of our hopes and values.
You were not going to risk losing good
On the contrary, economics was christened
marbles going after bad. This is so obvious
‘the dismal science’ precisely because its
with marbles. It is, also, so obvious that if I
analysis frustrated so many hopes and
have a choice of giving a piece of paper to
desires. On the other hand, knowing what
buy something and using gold or silver to buy
was not possible saved many disappointments
something, I will give up the paper and save
and disasters.
the bullion. The value of the paper may
BASIC ECONMICS, Thomas Sowell, p. 45.
change dramatically, but metals tend to retain
their value. Any student that understands this
might suspect the government’s handling of
the money supply and its confiscation of gold and replacing it with paper. There are some
questions that are better left unasked. Teaching of economics strikes at the very heart of a
modern government. The leader must always proclaim that economics is an imprecise science,
and that a good government is able to so manage its affairs that the laws of economics can be
abrogated.
If only the above two laws are understood, then every action by the government will
come under scrutiny. When the leader tries to regulate prices, rents, or oil supplies, people might
ask whether the actions will increase or decrease supply or demand. The purpose of the leader is
not to rule in a sound economic manner, it is to use the power of government to control people.
If you take away the leader’s power to manipulate supplies or prices, you have taken away a
large portion of his power. If you take away the leader’s power to inflate or deflate currency,
you have altered his ability to control his people. The citizens of the nation must think of
governmental control only in terms of laws. The leader is to emphasize that his laws are just the
response to forces that are out of his control. Often laws are just the response to the violation of
economic laws by the shepherd.
The best way to keep economics a
Back in the days of the roman Empire, the
secret is to flood economics with so many
emperor Diocletian issued imperial decrees
statistics and graphs that the whole subject
which set the prices of many goods–and
becomes meaningless. The other thing is to
‘people brought provisions no more to
promote many opposing schools of thought.
markets,’ as a contemporary put it. It would
Make economics appear like a religious
be much the same story nearly two thousand
convention. Picture the economists as
years later, when price controls during the
arguing over points no one understands and
Nixon administration led to declining
probably arguing over ideas that do not
supplies of goods subject to those controls.
matter anyway. Use the term “voodoo
BASIC ECONOMICS, p. 48.
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policies. The very name implies that even though the laws may appear as simple and correct,
they are just mindless imaginations. The leader must teach that a good leader can make his own
laws and that the nation can be ruled through laws that the leader passes. It must never appear
that economics has anything to do with reality. Reality is what the leader says it is.

T The new leader cannot be shown to have feet of clay. He must be the master of the
universe. Nothing can appear to infringe upon the impression that the leader can do
anything. If any universal laws appear greater than the ruler, the masses lose their
faith in the power of him to work miracles and inspire awe. The laws of economics
are the Achilles Heel of the leader as he must obey them or suffer the consequences.
It is vital that the consequences of breaking these laws be blamed upon the proper
scapegoat.

43 THE NATION MUST BE CONDITIONED FOR EMERGENCIES

There comes a time in every government when people refuse to be ruled. After all,
everything is going smoothly, why do we need more laws? As every leader knows that a good
emergency can break even the most devout opponent. But the crisis must never appear as if the
leader initiated the problem. One way to keep suspicion off the ruler is to keep a series of crises
before the public eye at all times. The world must be seen as a very troubling place, with trouble
spots all over. There must be foreign enemies, right-wing extremists, Arab terrorists,
environmental disasters, product shortages, new viral dangers, and a whole host of everyday
disasters that could strike anyone. The world is a very dangerous place, almost unfit for human
habitation.
Behind every disaster must be seen the ruler who is there to prevent if at all possible any
foul thing befouling us. Just as in times past, people looked to God in the midst of disasters, so
now people must look to the new leader. Life cannot be lived in the midst of disasters, or the
threats of disaster. People will either find an escape, create a new religion, or throw themselves
onto a leader who promises them the care and protection of a fatherly god. One of the
shepherd’s jobs is to see that no new religions are established to take the place of the leader. One
of the most effective ways to do this is to insist on the separation of church and state. Actually,
what the ruler is really saying is this: There shall be no other gods before me. This is the reality
but it cannot be expressed that way.
Another way to prevent the establishment of a counter religion is through the creative use
of tax codes. Any faith that deviates from public policy can be denied the status of a religious
faith. In most instances, this is enough to kill any new faith. Most people do not want to give to
an organization which carries with it a tax liability. Also, the average person has a suspicion of
any religion that does not come with a government seal of approval. This fear of an
unauthorized faith can be enhanced by playing up any weird cult. Any cult that ends up in
suicides or child molestation is an ideal candidate for publicity. These cults can be shown to
have existed outside the leader’s approval and reinforce the belief that it is a dangerous world
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 Into such a world that the leader has
The fact is that the individual’s sense of
created, anarchy is seen just below the
security, his psychological satisfactions, and
surface. It is only by the most strenuous
moral standards come mainly from his
efforts of the shepherd that individuals are
primary groups, and when these disintegrate
kept from destroying each other. Through
he is left insecure, anonymous, and a
constant promotion of class conflict, the
potential victim of mob psychology or
leader has already planted the image in
individual eccentricity and psychopathy.
people’s minds, that hatred abounds. It is
THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF
important that “war zones” or ghettoes be
INDUSTRY, J. A. C. Brown, p. 273.
maintained to show what life would be like
without the leader. Occasional urban riots
also strike at the heart of every suburbanite.
The news footage of such outbreaks must be shown over and over. Also, the school textbooks
should picture the fragile nature of civilization. One the most effective means of showing this
has been the vivid picture of a mob-inspired lynching. The idea must be planted that this is what
happens when people are allowed to rule themselves. No one is safe.
Finally, the goal is to have the people where they are no longer capable of resistance.
The leader should see to it that a local shortage of some necessity occur from time to time. It is
very similar to the plan used by the drug dealer: First get people hooked, then create a shortage
of the drug. During such a crisis, it is quite easy to bring any support for some dissident group to
an end. Even just a small shortage today can strike fear into the heart of the average suburbanite.
There has never been a time when people have felt so dependent on the system operating
smoothly. Most cities have a three-day supply of food. Cut off fresh supplies and riots will
result. Most people sense this. The leader can see to it that there are occasional break downs in
the flow of services to some community on occasions. The pictures of such a crisis will easily be
imprinted into the minds of all consumers.
With the above scenario in place, the
All goals proceed from duress. Life is a
leader has in place the “a-bomb” of social
continuous escape. Without force and threat
control. Should the leader need to enhance
there can be no striving. Without pain there
his power, or instill in everyone a fresh
can be no desire to escape from pain.
understanding of the need for a shepherd,
Without the threat of punishment there can be
radical shortages can be created. Just as the
no gain. Without duress and command there
shortage of paper money created the Great
can be no alignment of bodily functions.
Depression, so a leader can create chaos
Without rigorous and forthright control, there
almost overnight. Because the government
can be no accomplished goals for the State.
also controls the collection of data, the root
BRAINWASHING, ed. Kenneth Goff, p. 17.
cause of any crisis can be hidden from public
view. The ultimate control is the control of
food. Control the food supply and the leader
is God. This plan of control was developed by Stalin into the ultimate form of social planning
and social control. A few men conquered a continent through the systematic application of
shortages and rewarding the faithful with fresh supplies. Control the supply of food and you
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T The new leader should construct a world that cannot be ruled apart from constant
controls. The masses must be brought to a state of dependence through the threat
of social anarchy. Even the threat of shortages of vital supplies can keep the masses
in subjection to the leader. In times of prosperity, terrorism or the threat of
terrorist acts, can subdue even the most resistant of the leader’s opposition. In the
new world culture there are no safe places, there are no safe environments, there are
no perfect medical cures, there are no healthy relationships, and there are no
sustainable lives apart from government services.

44 RECONSTRUCTING MORALITY RECONSTRUCTS A NATION

The days are long past when the leader must point a gun at somebody to do his bidding.
Of course, this image must be in all of the textbooks. From the earliest age the young must be
taught that you are free if no one is pointing a gun at your head and forcing you to do something.
By constructing false images of freedom and false images of slavery, the new leader is free to
reconstruct a nation after his image. In the same way, false images of morality must be taught to
the people. The leader must realize that he may not believe in morals, but it is quite necessary
that the people believe in morals. Not only do moral conflicts provide ample ammunition for

The last supernaturalist illusion is the belief that we can find salvation by retreating into
some fenced-ff and privileged area: a personal spirituality, a local vocabulary, an ethnic
group, a traditional certainty. Such a retreat was indeed very common in the past, but today
its effects are pernicious. Cultural, national, and religious identities used to be constructed out
of differences–divisions and exclusions. Every we always identified itself as being not-like-
them. Philadelphia was always built on a firm foundation of xenophobia: thus, Jews defined
themselves by the way they separated themselves from gentiles, and Christians similarly from
Jews, and Muslims from Christians, with the long-term result that the more clearly any human
group identifies itself, the more it sees itself as surrounded by enemies.
AFTER GOD, Don Cupitt, p. xiii.

class conflicts, they can serve as a valuable distraction.

There will always be the traditional Puritan views of morality. While it is important to
isolate those with these views from the mainstream, they serve as a necessary foil when
portraying the dangers of the past and of religion. Traditional morality must be pictured as a
lifestyle of hate. Puritans hate themselves and their own bodies. They fight in their little
churches among themselves. They hate all those who oppose their views. They hate progress
and they hate all other races. The choice of moderns must be between the new progressive
morality of the new leader and the backward looking small-town morality of Puritanism.
Obviously, it is a decision that requires no brains.
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the leader is free to impose his morality on his subjects. The fact that the Puritans saw
themselves as fighters of governmental evil and dictatorships must be eliminated from public
consciousness. A new moral way of thinking must be instilled into the public mind. All
moralities involve absolutes. So new absolutes must be created in an age that does not believe in
absolutes. It is actually quite easy. The new absolutes are used to destroy the old absolutes and
few seem to notice the sleight-of-hand. The new absolutes are the following: Democracy,
Freedom, Relativism, Multi-Culturalism, Education, Pleasure, and World Trade. The Puritans
must be seen in the media as opposing all of the above. If they will not oppose something such
as world trade, then neo-Puritans must be used to protest in the Puritan’s place.
The great thing about the new absolutes is that they are blank slates which can be written
on by the new shepherd. All of the emotional appeal of fighting for a crusade which Puritans
used to do can be transferred to the new absolutes without any fear of a revolt being started.
When the people do “revolt” in the name of one of the new absolutes, they are merely carrying
out the wishes of the shepherd. If some of the young get carried away in their fervor for
freedom, that is good. The media must picture them as the new crusaders leading the people in
their war against our Puritan past. In fact the same thing is true of all of the new absolutes. It is
hard to take an absolute too absolutely. The more relativism the better. The more people want to

A single continuous world culture is very rapidly consolidating itself.

This new world culture is secular and increasingly transnational. Within it we hear the
language of nationalism and of religion only from those people who most fear and are trying
the hardest to resist the changes that are taking place. They fear oblivion, because they
suspect that they and every they have stood for–their world, their beliefs and values, their
identity–will shortly vanish unlamented and be completely forgotten.
. . . and the time will come when the voice of the markets demanding peace and stability will
be louder than the voice of the old gods demanding war.
AFTER GOD, pp 121-2.

spend on education the better.

Another aspect of the new morality is that it can be exported better than any other form of
morality. This is the new world-wide morality and it is the new imperialism. As the new
shepherd goes forth to conquer, he must have a morality to take with him to subvert the other
nations. Because the old morality of Western Civilization has been associated with Christianity,
it will not serve as an effective conquering wedge. The new morality has a whole world appeal
and it does not come with any emotional baggage. It can be presented to foreign nations as the
new liberator and the hope of the world. Just as Christianity conquered nations offering them a
morality to oppose pagan rule, so the new shepherd offers his morality as an escape from the
prison of local customs and traditional beliefs.

T The new leader is also the new prophet. He is to lead the nation, and eventually the
world, on a new crusade. Just as the Popes organized the Medieval Crusades, the
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new global culture must be pictured as terrorists and enemies of the peace of
mankind. The new morality must pervade the entire world in order for the new
global culture to succeed.

45 TO CONTROL GUILT IS TO CONTROL THE PERSON

One of the great sources of power, that the Catholic Church has used to keep its people in
line, has been the power to either forgive or not forgive sin, and its corollary of guilt. The
Church has discovered the power to define sin and the power to forgive is one the greatest
powers on earth. The human person, no matter what he believes, suffers from guilt. There is no
escaping it. The power to relieve this suffering puts the reliever in control. Is there any way to
explain the longevity of the Catholic Church and the power it has over people? It is by the
power it has over people’s guilt. Remove sin and guilt and you have disarmed the Catholic
Church. One of the attacks upon the Church has been by the psychiatric industry, which offers
others ways to alleviate guilt. There is money and power in guilt and its removal.
As the Protestant Church has done away with guilt in various ways, it has had to find
substitute forms of control. Those churches that have been unable to find substitutes have had to
rely on other methods to justify their existence. As Calvinism moved away from guilt due from
original sin, new forms of sin were needed. The new guilt was based on a positive performance.
Was the Christian showing the fruits of conversion? If not, then the person returned to guilt in
the new sense: A failure to perform. The Protestant Church has its power renewed as it becomes
the institution that enables one to achieve the Christian life. Stray from the institution and one
loses the tools to demonstrate that one is a
Christian.
. . . guilt, real or imagined, is crippling and
The new leader should learn well
destructive. Guilty men turn on themselves,
from these examples. He must be the definer
or on others. Guilty men turn on themselves,
of the new sin and he must have to power to
or on others, in sado-masochistic activities. It
forgive sins. One of the new sins is sexual
is to the advantage of statists and all power-
suppression. Any individual that controls his
hungry men to cultivate and induce guilt in
sexual desires is doing the equivalent of
other men as a means of power.
damming a large river. The flow will be
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Rousas J.
diverted elsewhere. Social and mental
Rushdoony, 942.
problems can be shown to result from the
over zealous control of one’s natural impulse.
The leader should then encourage his people
to give full expression within the law to their natural urges. The consequences of sexual
suppression are alleviated through the ruler’s rewriting of the laws. He now permits former law
breakers to be now considered fully legal. This is the new salvation.
Just as the Church provided penance for those who sinned, the new shepherd must
provide a new penance. This new penance can be in the form of acts performed that the leader
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excellent opportunities for people to do something that makes them feel good. The best penance
is symbolic and is really only a minor inconvenience. Just as the repeating of some religious
phrase or doctrine was not very inconvenient, it did give the person a feeling that he was paying
for his sins. Having people sort through their garbage and put out separate containers is a mild
inconvenience. But it does give a person a good feeling and relieves the guilt of being a wasteful
consumer.
Mankind is incurably religious. The
Encouragement is thus given to the practice
new leader must never forget this. Leaders in
of actual sins, redefined as freedom, in order
the past have tried to eliminate religion from
to produce a guilt-ridden and broken people.
their people, thinking this would make them
The world of entertainment and literature is
more willing to follow the new divine
important in this effort to give actual sin the
dictator. It did not work. Human beings
status of freedom and virtue, as an exercise of
make poor gods, even if they appear to be all
human ‘rights’ to enjoy life.
powerful. The shepherd must find new
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, p. 943.
symbolic gods. The current worship of
mother earth is a great substitute for the God
of the Bible. Mother Earth appears personal
and it contains all of the makings of a worldwide faith. The faith must appear to be larger than
any singular nation. The great thing about the new cult is that the leader is free to write the
doctrines and pass those off as science.
The shepherd is thus not a god, but the high priest of the new religion. But this high
priest must not wear the clothes of a pope but must dress down. He must appear as Jesus did.
He must walk among the people and be one of them. Except he is the ‘exalted one’ who controls
the power. The person who really has the power does not have to dress up like a peacock of a
pope. The Pope without his clerical garb would not be able to be a religious leader. The Pope’s
power is intangible. All of the Pope’s power is delegated power. His power comes from God
and God’s power is very invisible. After all, how many prisons does God operate? A person
with real power can dress like an average guy. This is proof of how much power he has.
Everybody knows the new shepherd can unleash the power of the federal bureaucracy against
anyone. And he does operate jails.

T The new leader rules by eliminating substitutes for submission to a great power. He
has the power to make the immoral appear to be moral, and the power to provide
substitutes for religious penance. The shepherd is to give the masses a substitute
faith which assures them of their own goodness: Good people care about the
environment and love endangered species. And the bottom line is the threat of hell,
i.e. prison, from the new leader is more real than the threat of some hell from an
invisible God.

46 EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE ENTERTAINED

The leader must recognize that no central government can operate without giving its
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When you work all day, some thought has to give meaning to that work. A dollar earned is only
as good as the entertainment it will buy. For all of the slogans and the programs that exist, a
pressure builds up inside the average person which calls out for release. The leader must see to it
that the release is channeled into appropriate areas. All dictators or shepherds, new bread and
circuses. The names must be changed from the days of old. We no longer have Caesars or
dictators or coliseums with brutal sacrifices and gladiatorial conflicts, at least by those names.
But the reality behind those names has not
changed.
. . . the deliberate application of the
When it comes down to it, the visual
techniques of theater to politics, religion,
fiction of movies and television are
education, literature, commerce, warfare,
considered real by the receiving brain. Take
crime, everything, has converted them in
any number of subjects and try to get them to
branches of show business, where the
describe what really happened on the Apollo
overriding objective is getting and satisfying
Moon Mission 13. The fictional version is
an audience.
the one they will tell you. The movie version
LIFE THE MOVIE, Neal Gabler, p. 5.
of truth is more real than what “really”
happened. Going one step further, after a
short time, many cannot recall what they saw
on CNN and what they saw in a movie about a similar subject. The Roman Emperor did not
have fiction and dramatic images to draw upon. He had to stage the real thing. But the events
must go on in any artificial social form that substitutes images and forms for actual interpersonal
events.
The leader must realize this: When
Entertainment was Plato’s worst nightmare.
philosophers talked about the radical
. . . Entertainment was less about morality or
difference between modern and primitive
even aesthetics than about power–the power
societies, they were describing a reality.
to replace the old cultural order with a new
Needs that at one time were met through
one, the power to replace the sublime with
actual living and through other people are no
fun.
longer being met in today’s artificial world.
LIFE THE MOVIE, p. 21.
The more the new leader changes society the
more artificial it becomes. But the new
shepherd must never use the words of the
philosophers. The words come loaded with meanings that should not be imported into the
leader’s world. That the primitive is natural and the modern is artificial is one of those loaded
definitions. All social organizations are artificial and man makes his own world whether it is
today or two thousand years ago. They should say over and over that all that man does and
creates is natural.
Once the new words are in place, the leader is free to move ahead. The desire to go back
to healthy living must be replaced with the idea of going forward to healthy living. People have
always had problems. Wars have always been bad. There have always been diseases. People
have always felt alone. Nothing has changed except this: Now we can do something about it.
We have the power that no people on earth have ever had. We actually do have to create the
utopia or the promised land that was only a phantasy in the past. What people feel now in their
frustrations are only the birth pangs that look forward to the dreams of the ages. The new

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shepherd is leading his people into the true promised land in this generation. The Kingdom of
Man has arrived.
Individual problems represent “birth
Once we sat in movie theaters dreaming of
pangs,” that can cause trouble for the new
stardom. Now we live in a movie dreaming
leader. Despite preaching about the new
of celebrity.
world that is about to arrive, escapes from the
An every-growing segment of the
old world must be kept in place. Whether the
American economy is now devoted to
dreams ever come true is irrelevant to the
designing, building and then dressing eh sets
leader. He must always preach: “We are
in which we live, work, shop and play’ to
almost there.” He must always see to it that
creating our costumes; to making our hair
there are many escapes in place. The more
shine and our faces glow’ to slenderizing our
the better. In fact, it the leader’s perfect
bodies; to supplying our props–all so that we
world, it will be a society built around
can appropriate the trappings of celebrity, if
escapes. The masses are to be totally
not the actuality of it, for the life movie.
occupied with pleasure and those occupied
LIFE THE MOVE, p. 8.
with such pleasure will not become radicals
or philosophers who oppose the new order.
The philosophers of society have
come from the outcasts and the frustrated.
Any society will always have these. These people have to become marginalized. The real
outcasts from society can be labeled as mentally deranged and left alone. The ones that can
function are usually happy to be a college professor where they can live in the phantasy that they
are changing the world by getting kids to memorize answers. Like most kids in college, what I
really learned was how to past tests. I did not learn what the professor was teaching. I think this
experience is almost universal. Humans do not learn well in abstract settings. This is why the
leader can use the college system to syphon off people who are not happy with the entertainment
culture. It is rather ironic that by turning college into a place where students learn about the
entertainment world, and couldn’t care less about the curriculum, most professors contribute to
the very system they think they are fighting.

T The good leader understands that his people are mere animals and desire the
pleasures of the barnyard. Every great leader gives the masses an artificial world
that creates a world where pleasure is reality. The culture is organized around
pleasure. Obedience is gained as the masses work with the cultural systems in order
to earn the necessary income to pursue cultural acceptable pleasures. The leader
creates a world where the values of the barnyard are obtainable to those who accept
his world view.

47 THE LEADER MUST SEARCH OUT EVERY NEED IN SOCIETY

Governments have created themselves by showing how they can fulfill a need better than
any other system. That is the myth we are all taught. The new leader must know the truth.

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Governments can fulfill needs better than anyone else if anyone else that tries is shot. That is the
truth. To keep the truth from being known, the leader must see that no new needs develop which
the people learn to fulfill on their own. If floods develop, there is a governmental solution. If
prescription drug expenses soar, there is a governmental solution. If people start having various
social problems, guess what, there is a solution from your leader forthcoming.
What are needs but a cry for service? That is how the people must be trained to think.
The very idea that people can organize themselves to solve problems is contrary to what the new
government is all about. It is not about self government. The new view is that the people are to
become dependents upon the government. Being dependent creates a slave mentality. This is
the mentality that is necessary for any good shepherd to instill in his people. If people taste
independence and accomplishment apart from the government in even one important area, they
will seek it in others. Eventually there will develop a cry for real freedom. Not the sexual
freedom that is passed off as freedom today, but freedom from government control and their

Despite the great variety of issues in a series of crusading movements among the
intelligentsia during the twentieth century, several key elements have been common to most of
them:
1. Assertions of a great danger to the whole society, a danger to which the masses of
people are oblivious.
2. An urgent need for action to avert impending catastrophe.
3. A need for government to drastically curtail the dangerous behavior of the many, in
response to the prescient conclusions of the few.
4. A disdainful dismissal of arguments to the contrary as either uninformed, irresponsible,
or motivated by unworthy purposes.
THE VISION OF THE ANOINTED, Thomas Sowell, p. 5.

services. Once this happens they have no need for a shepherd.

The attentive shepherd should imagine himself like the proverbial ‘ambulance chaser.’
He will be constantly scanning the horizon for any pattern of human need or human initiative. If
the schools and media have done their jobs properly, this will be an easy task. The people will
have been trained to quickly point out any new need to the appropriate authorities. A well-
trained electorate is like the grade school tattle tale: They cannot wait to run to the government
and cry for help. Again, any initiative that people show should only be in the direction of calling
for more aid from the government. The new initiative means being an activist in terms of
working with the government to solve problems. No graduate from the government school
system should have of the old ideas of initiative left in his thoughts.
This whole process of expanding the government’s power base through expanded
services starts in the school system and the media. From the very first grade, the school books
should show how the government has solved so many problems in people’s lives and made the
world a better place. When I was a child, I read over and over in different text books as we
progressed through the grades about the wonderful programs that saved the nation during the
depression. In fact, every textbook seemed to show how the government had stepped in to cure

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diseases, build dams, and keep the world safe. Also, the class conflicts had been controlled by
government action to avoid another civil war. By the time I graduated I had no idea of what
individual initiative even meant.
While the radicals and the fringe
Class warfare has become the basic premise
groups are looking for government
of politics, and, by 10950, the negroes had
brainwashing and propaganda, the new
picked up the same mythology, as have other
shepherd can carry on his program right
so-called minority groups since, notably
below their noses. It is vital that the leader
Mexicans, Indians, and women. The conflict
even have helpers among the radicals to
of interests faith creates a warfare society, a
divert their attention from what really is
state of permanent war as natural and
happening. The helping radicals can talk
inevitable. In a warfare society, the power of
about Chinese brainwashing and the
the state grows rapidly, in that the sate both
advertisers that are subverting the American
incites the warfare by legislation which
way of life. This is a good diversion. It
assumes a conflict of interest, and then
makes the average person feel secure in his
presents itself as the referee.
belief that he is free from having his behavior
CHRISTIANITY AND THE STATE, Rousas
modified. But the really effective mind
J. Rushdoony, p. 22.
changing operations can be carried on
without interference or awareness. The
shepherd sees to it that the values, attitudes
and words people used are being changed all in the name of creating a better world. While a few
fear the Chinese brainwashing, the majority are being made fit subjects through the control of the
media and the educational services.

T The new leader must create a system that the masses consider to be the only source
of real security and the only place to turn in times of need. In olden times, children
treated their parents with respect, partly out of fear of being disowned and being
disinherited. The family was the source of human fulfillment. The new shepherd
patterns his government after that traditional family. The masses will treat the
leader with respect, because he is the only one who can support the lifestyle all need
in this modern age.

48 THE COLLEGE IS TO BE USED TO OVERTHROW TRADITIONAL

BELIEFS

The new leader rules through sleight of hand. He proclaims the good that he does over
and over. The new world created by government action in service to the people accomplishes
more than any revolution ever could. Perhaps the greatest revolution has been the government
social service of the college education. A system that was created to supply educated ministers
to the new nation has been turned into a system for the transformation of the nation’s youth. The
subversion of the nation’s ministers worked so well that the system was applied to the rest of the
nation. Ministers were traditionally taught as interns in churches. Future ministers learned their

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trade from current ministers. The system is designed for the carrying on of a tradition. It is also
grounded in reality. A minister learns his trade through dealing with ordinary people and
understanding their problems.
This is not a great system for change. Traditions are passed on from one generation to
another. Christianity was a system of local churches. With the enlightenment and a new urban
world, there were those who sought a new urban organizational presence of Christianity. With
the great thinkers leaving Christianity in the backwoods, an educated and revolutionary ministry
was needed. A wedge was needed to drive the local minister away from his congregation. As
always, people do not respond to the point of a gun. They respond by being flattered. A new
school system developed for training clergy who would be acceptable to the elite of the new
intellectual classes. This would remove the local churches from the training of their ministers.
It worked very well. Except for the circuit riding preachers, who remained uneducated, the
nation’s clergy were transformed.
As the nation became more and more involved in the new enlightenment world scene, a
system of education was needed to break American youth from their traditional parents. The
college system was developed. The object was to break of the local control of education and the
local control of occupational training. The promise was that college would open up great doors
of opportunity for rural youth. The world was becoming too complicated for the average person
to understand. Trained experts were needed or America would lose out in its striving to be a
world power. A mass system of indoctrination was initiated under the promise of riches, power,
and world recognition.
One of the first things to understand for the new leader is that the structure of an
organization is more important than the content. The leader will understand that there is really
very little difference from a Bible college and a state-supported university. The structures are
similar and they accomplish similar goals. To insure the structure of all schools is the same, the
state insists on a central control of accreditation. These boards of certification should have the
pretense of being concerned with quality, but the main purpose is to insure the uniformity of
college structures. What is it that makes the college structure so subversive? And why is it that
the structural effects of college are the least mentioned aspect of education?
The first purpose is to separate kids from their parents. The school must bring students
from all over to live in on-campus residence. The students should be randomly mixes to end any
feelings of community. It is similar to the experience of death and rebirth. The child has died
and is reborn. Just as his parents guided the youth into its introduction into the physical world,
so the new parents (college instructors) will guide the youth into their indoctrination of the
modern world. But the deeper education is not what the instructors teach. The student learns
that specialists are needed to understand everything. He learns that the new thinking is
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 The educational state, as a life system for the larger corporate liberal state, served a vital
process of supplying trained manpower for production and consumption, as well as perhaps
the more important function of keeping large numbers of people off the labor market. In such
mass-production-oriented society, the schools were used to standardize the future citizen as
interchangeable parts for an intricate production and consumption system. Testing, guidance
and curriculum reform movements all helped to objectify and rationalize the child for his place
within the system.
SHAPING THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL STATE, Clarence J. Karier, p. 22.

Knowledge used to be community based. The local residents knew what was best for
their town and community. The new student is cut off from that community and their
influence. He is not only cut off from their influence, but from their morals and heritage.
Throughout history parents have passed on to their kids an inheritance. One generation works to
pass onto the next generation a whole system of experiences and beliefs acquired over the ages.
The promise is given to the youth, that in exchange for their past, they will be given a new, more
exciting heritage. The youth will be set free from their past. They will be free to mold their own
future according to their own desires. It is an exhilarating feeling to youth. It offers a new
freedom from the discipline of reality as experienced through the control of the small town.
Place a healthy kid into an atmosphere of very little control and you can almost expect
certain things to happen. This has been shown to be true in every war. Take kids away from
home and their morals deteriorate. And it happens very quickly. Many have used this fact to
show that morals are artificial. This is what the leader must maintain, but he must understand
that morals are more than personal ethics. In order to rule he must know that all morals are
social. We would like to think of ourselves as individuals but that is only part of the story. We
are individuals in community. The leader must take away the community and replace it with
another community. When you do this, you will change the person. And he will not even realize

. . . [Christian] education was an inevitable concern, and it was seen, not as a break with the
community and a separation of the ‘intellectual’ from the ‘peasant,’ but an aspect of the image
mandate within the framework of the covenant. Education, as an aspect of the covenantal life,
could not see itself as called to foster rootlessness but to implement the covenant’s
development of its life and promises. It did not function to sever home times, for example, but
to confirm them, in that it worked to develop more fully man’s knowledge, righteousness,
holiness and dominion in terms of every aspect of life. It was thus concerned with the
development of godly scholarship, and godly youth who would also be godly sons and
daughters now and husbands, wives and parents tomorrow.
INTELLECTUAL SCHIZOPHRENIA, Rousas J. Rushdoony, p. 9.

what has been done to him.

When a person is separated from his community and placed in another he gets the feeling
of liberation. He must be told that this feeling is the growing up process that makes him a new

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adult person. When a young person is placed in a community with no traditional social structure
and no community ethic, he feels liberated and feels free like a little kid in a candy store. This
feeling must be interpreted for him. He must be told that small towns were nothing but prisons
which kept him chained to an outdated past. By going to college, he is being confronted with a
future that has no limits. Small towns are nothing but havens for failures and the fearful.
College liberates one from all of such trash. College creates the new man. This is heady stuff
and the leader can use it over and over in other situations.
What works in the military and college can be transferred to neighborhoods. The new
leader to create new persons should get as many of the young into the military and college as
possible. He should attack the older through the breakup of neighborhoods and small towns.
Ever small town should have the same regulations as huge cities. And the schools in every little
town should be turned over to national controls. This way even the very young in some out of
the way fork in the road will be bused to a far away school almost like going to college. The
same arguments should be presented to local folks. By undergoing change you are being
prepared for the new cosmopolitan world and are becoming modern just like your big city
brethren.
One of the other behaviors created by the college structure is to instill, in all students, a
belief in hedonism. By applying pressure after pressure in the classroom, the student will seek a
release in some form. To redirect those pressures into pleasure is one of the things to be learned
in the college. Entertainment and pleasure should be readily available for all. The college can
also prepare the students for a lifetime of escapism by making sports an integral part of the
college scene. By creating pressure, and then focusing this pressure into release into sports, the
school has programmed the student to see sports entertainment as something one can use for
release the rest of his life.
The new shepherd should focus major energies into the college system. It is one of the
most secretive forms of brainwashing. The leader can take one eighteen-year-old Christian and
make him into a twenty-two-year-old agnostic. If the leader tried to do this by direct attack the
student would resist. By sneaking the whole message into the structure of life it is almost
invisible. Very few students will see that the system is the message. And not many professors
will risk tenure to bite the hand that pays them. After all, college campuses are a great ‘haven
from a heartless world.’ Who wouldn’t sell his soul to work in such a pristine setting. The new
leader will have more than enough volunteers to preach the message of the government. People
are one of the cheapest of expenses.
Those who graduate from this system ideally would be given a medal for them to wear.
This would serve the same function as medals do in the military. At this point in time, such
medals are not needed as an elitist attitude can be created during the college stay that will serve
as a medal. The graduate feels like he has passed through a second puberty, and for the rest of
his life he can claim that he has come of age. To be a graduate is to become part of an invisible
fraternity. And jobs are promised to all who are part of this fraternity. The fact that the
government’s degree factory is often just a waste of time and money, should be never be allowed
to become a visible fact. Just like lottery winners are pictured as vacationing all over the world
for the rest of their lives, so should the lives of college graduates be pictured. Lottery losers and
unemployed college graduates are not fit for media attention.
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place. Individuals must be willing to sacrifice for the sheepskin, and schools must be willing to
die for accreditation. When the leader has achieved this, he is in the ultimate control. The
reason being, no one knows he is a slave to the leader. What a great system. The great leader
understands that the best indoctrination is invisible. People resist the visible. Also, it is
important to have visible forms for the people to resist. College students can be seen protesting a
whole host of minor and inconsequential issues. This give them the feeling that they are free.
And behind the scenes the leader can control their every move. The axiom is this: Rule through
the visible, control through the invisible.

T The new leader knows that the local community and the family contain traditions
which will resist his rule. It is necessary to separate the young from such conserving
influences. The maze of college is not designed to educate future workers. This
could be done in other ways. The college’s maze is designed to destroy the student’s
cultural roots. And there is a promise of great reward for those who submit.

49 SUBSTITUTES FOR THE RELIGIOUS IMPULSE ARE VITAL

The elimination of all religious impulses is impossible, at least for the immediate future.
It will thus be necessary to give the people substitutes for their normal religious feelings. The
new leader should see to it that he is the one
that supplies these needs. Traditional
religions should be restricted to private
areas–inside a church building and inside
the believer’s head. As long as believers
and their churches obey the rules, the leader
should see that those institutions are
accredited. This means that these faiths will
not be labeled as cults and the Internal
Revenue Service will keep those churches
with their tax deductions. Basically, the
same procedures that worked to tame and
control the American college system should
be used to control the churches.
Any college that seeks to operate
without accreditation or certification will
find it so isolated from the mainstream, that
any major operation would be precluded.
. . . democratic educationalists like Dewey
[believe that]. . . for so long as religion is
regarded as a private matter which only
concerns the conscience and the feelings of
the individual, it is a very good thing. But
the moment that it attempts to create its own
community of thought and to separate its
adherents from the common mind of the
democratic society and from the State school
which is the organ of the common mine, it
becomes an anti-social force which every
good democrat must reject and condemn.
THE CRISIS OF WESTERN EDUCATION,
Christopher Dawson, p. 107.

Major religious differences can persist in a functionally unified society only at the cost of
sharp conflict on the one hand or by the reduction of the significance of these religions to their
adherents on the other, or by some mixture of these processes. Insofar as it is reduction in the
significance of traditional beliefs that occurs, men do not thereby give up the search for a
unifying system of values. They develop a quasi religion to do the job. Most often in our
time it is nationalism, sometimes pursued with an almost desperate sense of urgency for the
conviction of unity. Familiar religious elements become associated with the nation. Sacred
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writings, saints, ceremonies, demands for fervent expressions of loyalty to the nation as the
ultimate object of allegiance appear.
SOCIOLOGY LOOKS AT RELIIGON, j. Milton Yinger, p. 31.
Any college is free to operate at the fringes of society. It will find that it will have neither the
money nor the students necessary to carry on very long. The same should be for churches. Any
church that functions without government approval should be showcased in the media in the
same class as terrorists or snake handlers. This will keep most average people away. Most trust
what the government says about such groups. It is important to exploit any fringe group that
does something to illustrate its decadence. Any religious member from such a group who does
anything abnormal should be made into a media poster child. Using any fringe group in
California, the leader can impugn all groups across the country. The shepherd should not be
above helping in some way the forming of a few good examples of religious crazies.
Once the major faiths have been marginalized, the shepherd is free to impose a new
national and public faith. This will be the true faith of America. All other faiths are personal
and are free to fight among themselves and be criticized by all. The new national faith should be
above public criticism. We talked earlier about creating a civil faith. There should also be
something that is above such a faith. As much as possible the new leader should make himself
into the modern version of a king. People should look to the shepherd as somebody who is the
closest thing possible to a secular pope. While not everyone will buy into a secular faith, all
should be made to feel part of something important.
Such national feelings can be created through the emphasizing of elections as
participating in the life of the nation. Also, such happenings as the Super Bowl can be used to
create secular religious feelings. The other holidays can also be used to create the participation
of all in something we all have in common. There is developed a national feeling bigger than
any religion and yet makes even the atheist feel he is a part of it. Also, in formerly religious
holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas, these should be so secularized that they become
something that has no religious meaning left.
National feelings can be created by using network news channels such as CNN. When
events such as the Challenger disaster are broadcast over the news, a national feeling is
celebrated. When a celebrity dies, there is a national morning and a national feeling of
participation. These are not religious events in any sense of the word, but serve a religious
function in that a sense of being part of something significant is created. The Gulf War is
another example. It was the ideal television war. Most of the casualties went to the enemy and
the United States was in no danger of being invaded by Iraq. The slight threat of a domestic
terrorist attack added a slight sense of anxiety to make the war feel real. All of America felt,
during the televising of daily film footage and talking heads, that they were actually part of
something important. A good leader should see to it that such events happen often enough to
keep the people feeling a great need for the government. It also creates a feeling of thankfulness
for the shepherd.
All national feelings need the other aspects of religion also. Schools and their buildings
create the impression of a national faith. The school is seen as offering to the young the training
to become part of the new national feelings of solidarity. This is another one of the functions of
the school system that is more important than the teaching of the so-called three “R’s”. The
other part of the national faith is the offering of salvation through technological science. The
leader should tie the health care system into the hope of eternal life. The impression should be
given that through government research we are constantly improving life and the conquering of
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breakthroughs will be available to all of the people. Salvation is universal.
Since the first draft, the events of September 11, 2001 have occurred. This is a great
example of the event being turned into a national religious happening. As the nation mourned
the dead, the entire population was caught up in the families and their grieving. The televising of
numerous funerals, and the elevating of the firemen and policemen into something more than
mere mortals, created a national spirit of unity. The whole nation was unified into a common
purpose that went beyond revenge. The leadership structure was able to launch a new American
revolution. It would be the uniting of all religious faiths into a world mission where the threat of
terrorism would not exist, and everyone would be free to pursue ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.’

T The new leader should support private, devotional faiths for his people. These
faiths are, however, exclusive. A national inclusive faith is necessary to secure the
benefits of having the masses remain faithful to their leader. If the new shepherd
does not provide a truly national faith, someone else will come along and offer one
in opposition to the leader. While in past times, race, nation, and religion were used
to unify the masses, something new is now needed to unify. The new leader should
focus on the benefits society provides for all and how the nation is unified through
the caring leadership of the new shepherd.

50 EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE SHOULD BE RUN BY CORPORATIONS

The new shepherd should realize that he is creating an impersonal world. If his people
have very personal interactions, it awakens desires which it may be difficult to control. For
example, sex is to use as a form of control. Love is not a useful tool. Real love awakens
thoughts and feelings in people which are not useful to control. Real love is an end in itself. It
also tends to make people contended. It also gives people a source of strength outside of the
relationship he has with his government. Sex has none of these drawbacks. Every leader then
always encourages his people to engage in free and recreational sex. Such sex offers nothing
more than a good roller coaster ride, except you don’t have to wait in line. And it keeps people
coming back for more and it helps create an impersonal means of interaction.
It is important that life be organized around impersonal relationships. For example, when
leaders opposed slavery in the United States it was not for the reasons given. Of course, that is
true of every issue. Slavery as it existed in the United States was based on personal
relationships. Even when the slave owners left to fight the Civil War, the slaves kept on working
the farms and plantations. Abraham Lincoln tried to create a slave revolt through the
Emancipation Proclamation. That did not work. The reason is that for the most part the
relationship between slave owner and slave was a personal one. There actually existed a deep
respect and mutual responsible attitude. One of the great purposes of the War was to destroy
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 Who can deny that networks can get some jobs done? They do. But they lack any ability to
nourish their members emotionally. The extreme rationality at the core of networking is based
on the same misperception of human nature the French Enlightenment and Comte were guilty
of.
Networks divide people, first from themselves and then from each other, on the grounds that
this is the efficient way to perform a task. It may well be, but it is lousy way to feel good
about being alive. Networks make people lonely. They cannot correct their inhuman
mechanism and still succeed as networks.
DUMBING US DOWN, John Taylor Gatto, p. 58.

As government and businesses have grown in the modern world, corporations have
become the ruling power at every level of society. Corporations rule by regulations and the
mastering of rational techniques. There are processes covering everything. People interact
through a series of rules. Nothing is based on personal relationships. People, who are employed
in such an environment, are changed into the type of person that is needed by the new leader. In
fact, the rise of corporations and the teaching of bureaucratic ethics is one reason the marriage
relationship is in jeopardy. It is all part of the same phenomenon. Traditional marriage cannot
last in a world ruled by corporations. The letter of the law replaces all personal relations. In law,
the goal is to make the court system totally impersonal. The impersonal law covers everything.
Justice is not the determining of guilt of or innocense, but the following of correct legal

But the failure of the rationalistic-scientistic technicisms is most obvious because every
major problem has inspired dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of different sets of
technicisms for solving the problem. . . . Each ballyhooed technical solution commonly has
some good effects in the very short run because of the effects of faith (technically known as
placebo or Hawthorne effects), though they also commonly produce some instantaneous
catastrophes.
Rationalist techniques almost always fail to solve human problems and unintentionally
produce highly dysphoric, dystopian consequence because their implicit assumptions about
human beings are wrong. Most commonly they assume, either explicitly or implicitly, that
human beings are a clean slate, a tabula rasa, upon which the technicist may write whatever
theme he has the power to try. Most importantly, they assume that there is no such thing as
human nature and that each society, culture, or expert can socialize its newborn members into
any form dictated by traditionalist techniques.
THE MYTH OF THE WELFARE STATE, Jack D. Douglas, p. 297.

procedures.
The young should be taught to live in a bureaucratic system by the abolishing of small
schools and incorporating them into large schools. The student should learn, from the very
earliest age, that he lives in an impersonal world. The school should be large enough that
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not even see each other all day. The student learns the skills of relating to people he has no deep
feelings for except the common loyalty to the school. Knowledge must be divided up into
impersonal subjects that have little relation to the life the student lives. Knowledge is the
acquiring of facts so that tests can be passed. And if the student passes enough such vague tests
and does well in standardized impersonal tests, then he is declared ready to join the real adult

Artificial integration that controls human association–think of those college dorms or

fraternities–appears strong but is actually quite weak; seems close-knit but in reality its bonds
are loose; suggests durability but is usually transient. And it is most often badly adjusted to
what people need although it masquerades as being exactly what they need.
DUMBING US DOWN, p. 73.

world of unreality.
The religions of the culture must also be turned into corporations. The small church is as
much a threat to the new shepherd as any other institution. The attack on the churches must be
very subtle and must not appear like an attack at all. The leader must appear as a very religious
person who is trying to help his people become better Christians. The attack must come on three
separate but all related fronts. Churches should be encouraged to become mega-churches. The
media can be used to puff the greatness of the new large church. Small churches should always
be portrayed as clannish and out of touch with reality. Every time some Christian commits a
crime, if he can be tied in with a small church, the church must be emphasized as contributing to
the crime. The criminal is just the victim of having been part of an obsolete and dysfunctional
society.
The leader must see to it the government is doing all it can to help the mass media
become an important part of the church. The government can require television to carry
religious programming. It can also make it easy for churches to form small television stations.
The use of the impersonal media as the way to present the Gospel is to be encouraged. Because
Christians live and work in an impersonal world, they can easily be persuaded to change the
personal message of the Christian faith into something that is impersonal. They have been
trained to think that the impersonal message is just as real as the personal faith. Thus when the
whole message of the Bible is made to fit on the television screen, it will seem as the natural way
to reach the lost in the modern impersonal world. The whole message is made to appear as the
intellectual acceptance of certain facts. When we die, God gives us one of his standardized tests
just like the ones we had in school. Television is a great communicator of impersonal facts, and
such facts are what the modern man has been trained to see as prime reality.
The third area of attack on the church must be the transformation of its theology. But the
transformation again must be done with deception. The personal God of the Bible must be
gradually replaced with the mechanical god of Deism. This can be done in several ways. In
order to defend the Bible against Evolution, God must be taught as the real force in Evolution.
He has guided the survival of the fittest through impersonal laws that He has incorporated into
the universe. God is still personal the people are told, but He has stepped out of the running of
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change, but it portrays the universe as being impersonal at the very core of reality.
Once God has been replaced by science and a mechanical universe, then man is now the
real god of this world. He is free to remake the world according to a new image. The new leader
must present himself as the person who has the power to mold the world and create the new
paradise on earth. As with God, the leader must have no competing powers. Just as the original
God had no rivals, so the new god must have none who can oppose his will. Rivals must be seen
as those who would frustrate the plans for the creation of the new and better world. The unity of
the Godhead must be replaced by the unity of the vision in the new plan. Those who oppose are
the new heretics.
This is where the leader must be very deceptive. By allowing all sorts of religious
diversity and cultural diversity the impression is given that differences of opinion are allowed.
This is true in a limited sense. Differences are allowed where the leader does not choose to rule.
In such areas, pluralism and diversity are not to be allowed. Democracy is allowed only within a
very narrow range. Those who would challenge the nature of the system or the basic ideas of
society must be branded as heretics and outside of the acceptable. The new heresy trials are
played out in the media. The media can brand those who oppose the plan as being unfit for
participation in the public arena. Burning heretics only creates martyrs. Destroying their
reputation only leaves broken people: People that no one looks up to or admires.
Because people now live and work surrounded by a bureaucracy, anyone that is not
acceptable to those in power, becomes outside of reality. Just as the religious heretics lived on
the fringes of society, so the new heretics are pictured as living outside the mainstream. Because
such people now live without any government help, positions of leadership and various
government grants are not possible. The new heretics really do live outside the bounds of
society. You will not find them even in government schools and universities. The heretic must
really beg to earn a living just as in former times. By forcing the enemies of the state to earn
money outside the positions of prestige and power, their influence is greatly reduced.

T The new leader can only rule through a giant bureaucracy. Every level of social
existence must be patterned after the impersonal reality of the bureaucrat. The
human person who has been given a distinct personality from God must be
destroyed. If the leader can destroy true personality, he has destroyed the mass’s
ability to commune with a personal God. An impersonal religious faith is easily
manipulated by the bureaucrat, as the rule of bureaucracy match the masses
psychic perceptions of reality.

51 MAKE THE PRIVATE LIFE VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE

There has been a gradual reduction of what would be called individual areas of personal
rule. It is difficult for most people to even understand how life was before the government took
over the control of virtually every area of life. In 1862 the first mailing addresses were
instituted. Before then, a person would go to the post office to pick up his mail. The
government had no idea where a person lived. It had no idea individuals existed except for broad
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Civil War. Before you can draft someone, first you have to find them. And if the government
does not know if someone exists, there can hardly be a penalty for avoiding the draft.
The new leader cannot rule under such conditions. One of the goals of the shepherd is to
leave no area of anyone’s life outside of government knowledge. There are several ways this can
be achieved. One is through taxes, one is through regulation, and one is through benefits. First,
impersonal taxes should be avoided. The more personal the tax, the more the government knows
about each individual. This is why the extremely complex income tax is such a blessing to the
leader. Not only is every area of income taxed, the tax payer must keep and report every detail
of his earnings and expenditures. The government is thus in a position to use such information
to keep any person in line. Also, with multiple and complex regulations, there are very few who
do not violate the law in some areas. When the leader so needs to enforce some law, he can
declare anyone a law breaker. This is a powerful tool to keep all in fear of falling under the
inspection of some government official.
By using regulation to create the new
. . . people who hold wrong and hurtful
paradise, every area of a person’s life now
opinions should be punished for the good of
falls under government scrutiny. The
society. If they cannot be put in jail, then
government regulates his buying and selling.
they should lose their jobs, be subjected to
Building and buying a house is under
organized campaigns of vilification, be made
scrutiny. The car one drives must be
to apologize, be pressed to recant. If
registered and licenced. It must be certified
government cannot do the punishing, then
pollution free. The driver must be licenced
private institutions and pressure groups–
and he must have the proper safety devices
though vigilantes, in effect–should do it.
such as seat belts and child restraints. The
KINDLY INQUISITORS, Jonathan Rauch,
insurance is monitored. One’s water use is
p. 6.
regulated in one’s home. How one behaves
toward one’s spouse and children are
monitored. This does not include the
monitoring of work related behavior or the
regulations business ownership. There is no area outside the survey of some government
regulator or monitor. The leader should use these laws to create a dependent and helpless class.
The media can be used to help create the feeling of helplessness against the government.
One popular form of movie takes the form of a person who tries to run but they cannot hide. No
matter where they go, there are surveillance cameras, all purchases are monitored by credit card
numbers, and it seems his car is traced by satellite wherever he drives it. The feeling is created
that there is no such thing as a private act anymore. Our lives are monitored and when the focus
is turned up, the government knows all, just like God does. Just as people used to live in fear of
an omnipotent God, now they live in fear of a government that is almost as powerful. The leader
creates the image that any person who opposes the general will, will come under a focus that no
one can withstand.
In connection with the above, every scandal must be the focus of the media. The news
helps the leader help create the image that anyone who stands out from the crowd will have
every indiscretion revealed. No person can stand up in today’s world, to such scrutiny. Because
social controls have largely broken down, there is immense freedom to all while growing up. In
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There is no such pressure today. Kids are free to explore areas that have previously been
considered out of bounds. The problem is that, while a person while young feels such freedom,
his youthful mistakes become part of his history. Very few mistakes are made in the absence of
witnesses or some record left behind. With the media promising instant celebrity status for those
who come forward to rat on their old friends, there are always peoples willing to talk about some
targeted person.
The leader sees to it that the various government agencies appear to be out of control.
The Internal Revenue Service works best when it is pictured as a terrorist group. Stories should
be circulated of someone who made an honest mistake and was made to pay dearly for such a
trespass. With the new government, there are no honest mistakes. Other regulating groups
should serve the leader in the same way. The Environmental Protection Agency should target
small businessmen. Minor regulatory infractions, over rules that are only known by expensive
lawyers, should be used to intimidate or destroy small businessmen. This serves two purposes.
People who are independent in business are often independent in thought. The elimination of
such operations serves to stifle future opposition. Also, as business is transferred to large
corporations, it becomes easier for the government to control all aspects of business life.
Through all of this, the leader should have a thorough understanding of the new
terrorism. It is again vital that the traditional form of terrorism should show forth every now and
then. This serves to remind people of what terrorism is supposed to be like. This helps disguise
the new terrorism which is part of the new leader’s plans of rule. One well-placed bomb can do
much to keep the eyes of everyone off the leader and his use of bureaucratic terror. The new
terrorist doesn’t use bombs to destroy people, but regulations are used to destroy law breakers.
With enough laws, a whole society can become law breakers. It is the selective enforcement of
the regulations that creates the terror. The saying must be on the lips of people as they see a
violator being hauled off: There go I but for the grace of the new leader.
Just as all sin and fall short of the glory of God, so all citizens are law breakers and fall
short of legal perfection: Just as Christians in former time lived by the grace of God. After all,
they all knew how far they fell short of the requirements of divine law. The new citizen lives in
the constant knowledge how he also falls short of the perfection required by every government
agency. The power and authority that used to exist in the Church are now transferred to the new
government. As the Church could threaten Hell to those who resisted its rule, so those who resist
the shepherd are confined to the new hells of the penitentiary system. The pattern can be
followed even to the ability of the rich to buy their way out of Hell. Just as the rich could
purchase indulgences from the Church for absolution, so the new citizens can hire lawyers to free
them from the new hell.
The medieval Church is the pattern that every shepherd should copy. The modern
government should learn to copy and update every aspect of the Churches rule. The Church held
people in a form of slavery for nearly fifteen hundred years. It used this time to develop and
perfect a system of ruling. The new leader can save a lot of time by studying the mistakes of the
Church, and how it fell out of favor with the people. There is much to be learned from its
example. While making many minor mistakes, the Church made two major mistakes: It lost
control on its monopoly of communication, and it lost control of the new merchant class. There
are parallels today. The internet provides free expression across the world at virtually no cost.
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 The growth in both the legal and illegal world trade has created a class that seems to be
independent of the government’s control. The attempt to fence in Microsoft is an example of
how a leader can lose his edge to newcomers on the scene. Like the Church, the new leader will
always face new opposition and he must be vigilant. Frontal attacks rarely work against large
organizations. A leader attacks individual citizens and regulates the corporations. The Microsoft
lawsuit is an example of how churches or governments lose power. To the average citizen the
lawsuit seems to be about free trade or its restraint, but to the government, it is about control.
The new leader cannot allow any class or individual to become independent of his controls. A
global corporation as powerful as Microsoft is a potential threat to the new world government.

T The new leader recognizes that others have failed to control the masses because
their methods became too obvious. The new system of control should at all times to
appear to be ‘just the way the world is.’ The ruling voice must state: The modern
world needs tighter controls, and everyone must be regulated closely for the good of
society. The leader creates a ruling apparatus that he controls, but only from
behind the scenes. As children are taught regulations from day care through
adulthood, the memory of any independence will not exist in anyone’s vocabulary.

52 THE ABILITY TO DEFINE ‘LAW’ IS A POWERFUL RULING CONCEPT

There seems a natural tendency in every human to obey what he thinks the law says. The
child, trained in the social mores, discovers it easier to follow the law than rebel. A strong
social conscience, and the guilt that results from a law’s violation, make most kids grow up
obeying what the society has decreed to be ‘a law-abiding citizen.’ The shepherd must be the
one who controls the making and defining of laws. The idea that laws are innate must be
abolished. The public must never see laws as something created into the code of the universe.
No person can change gravity, not even a shepherd. Therefore, laws must not be associated with
anything but public opinion. That is why the leader must always talk about public opinion polls

We can also see an increasing theatricality of politics, in which events are scripted and
stage-managed for mass consumption, and in which individuals and groups struggle for
starring roles (or at least bit parts) in dramas of life. This theatricality is a natural–and
inevitable–feature of our time. It is what happens when a lot of people begin to understand
that reality is a social construction.
REALITY ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE, Walter Truett Anderson, p. 5.

and how he feels that they are the new laws of the universe.
With the new absolute of public opinion in place, the leader can change laws by changing
public opinion. Thus, the new leader is always seeking ways to control public opinion in the
direction he wants to go. When this is accomplished, new laws are made to appear as following
from the demands of the general will. With this structure in place, every action taken by the

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shepherd appears to be legal. After all, the people are the source of the law. The people feel
they are in control and that they are sovereign: They are the new foundation of the universe. The
leader is now free to do anything. The more he can control public opinion, the more he is free to
pursue anything he desires.
The legislature in these conditions must always appear as the ones who are implementing
the will of the people. The idea of leadership passes from the scene. The congress creates the
illusion that every decision is based on the will of the people. This must be spoken over and
over. The news must always be about the search of finding solutions for problems that serve as
tools for action. Laws are merely the solution to every problem. Of course, the leader must
decide what constitutes a problem. If one controls the problems, one controls the agenda. The
new leader rules through the controlled creation of the proper problems. The public must be
instilled with fear in every location that the leader chooses to act. This fear leads to problems,
which leads to new laws, which leads to total control by the shepherd. It is the formula for ruling
today.
The next step is to evolve law into the
From the time when lawgivers gave over
legalization of every area of society. In one
attempt to maintain the general security by
sense, freedom is perceived as acting outside
belief that particular bodies of human law had
of the control of the law. The new leader
been divinely dictated of divinely revealed or
says that any thing not covered by law is
divinely sanctioned, they have had to wrestle
anarchy. Anarchy destroys society. No
with the problem of proving to mankind that
anarchy must be allowed to exist. Therefore,
the law was something fixed and settled,
every area of life must be subject to some
whose authority was beyond question, while
form of law. The public must feel that the
at the same time enabling it to make constant
new freedom is obeying the law and not
readjustments and occasional radical changes
being punished. We are free when we obey
under the pressure of infinite and variable
the speed limit. We are free when we pay
human desires.
taxes. We are free when we follow
Roscoe Pound, Dean Harvard Law School,
government regulations for child care. In
quote in GOD, MAN, AND LAW, p.18.
time the traditional meaning of freedom can
be totally transformed into the following of
the new laws.
There is one narrow ban of behavior that must be promoted. This is the feeling of release
from law through the properly controlled expression of wild emotion. Law and emotion must be
presented as two sides of the same coin. There is a public behavior which the leader controls for
the good of all. In time, the definition of public behavior becomes more encompassing. To
prevent rebellion there must be times of controlled release of the pressure of law. The new
leader must promote sports, music, and sex as the new saviors of human freedom in a world of
regulation. The more schools regulate the youth, the more they must be allowed to misbehave in
areas provided for them. The more jobs become regulated and demeaning, the more workers
must be shown ways to carry on in adult ways of misbehaving and releasing frustration.
With the new laws there must, therefore, be a new morality. The old morality acted to
control the leader along with his people. The old morality emphasized self-control. The old
morality meant the freedom to accomplish some good. All of these things go against the new
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society. It is vital that the public not feel guilty for their emotional excesses. Guilt seeks a
solution and the solution cannot always be controlled by the shepherd. Religious revivals have
been started by guilt. That must not be allowed to happen. Revivals and revolutions often go
hand in hand.
The other aspect of morality is the desire to do some positive good. Positive good must
be seen as the role of the government and those that work for the new shepherd. Positive good
gives the idea of freedom apart from the law. If the people can have their own schools and their
own charities, it creates a feeling that is not part of the controlled feelings the shepherd seeks to
instill. Feeling good is part of the planned emotions that the leader channels into various forms
of releases. Positive good is part of the image of the shepherd. He is the author of all good. If
there is good, the leader will pass a law and authorize it. Doing good apart from the law implies
that there exists solutions apart from the new legal system. This cannot be allowed to happen. In
the new society, doing unauthorized good is rebellion against the goodness of the total system of
supplying our every need.

T The new leader must develop the mental thinking of the masses. If he can control
their thought processes, he can control them without the use of force. By teaching
the masses the new definitions of freedom, pleasure, and legality, he can direct their
behavior through the channels desired and needed for the new world culture. The
masses must come to accept the Roman Empire view of life: All those outside of the
state’s jurisdiction and control are barbarians–not fit for life.

53 EMPLOYMENT MUST BE CREATED TO KEEP POTENTIAL

ENEMIES OF THE SYSTEM OCCUPIED

Nations have been destroyed in the past because they neglected to employ people of
above average intelligence. Intellectuals can be easily bought with a little money and the idea
that they are part of the ruling elite. The modern college system is perfect for this purpose. Not
only does it create a need for many intelligent persons to be kept off the streets, it also gives
them a false sense of being independent and important. Depending on one’s personality, there
are two other systems designed to keep potential threats employed and content. They are the
public school system and the government bureaucracy. Those who think these groups are
designed for what their stated purpose is are sorely misled. All three serve as agents of control.
Those who work in these systems must learn certain behaviors to maintain their employment.
Those who think they are free should realize they are only free in areas they are told they are
free. If you step outside of the regulated areas of behavior, you will find that your job was not as
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 The new leader must constantly tell
The fact is that this is what society is and
the people how important all three areas are
always has been: a symbolic action system, a
to the security and future of the nation. It is
structure of statuses and roles, customs and
almost impossible for anyone in America
rules for behavior, designed to serve as a
today to even imagine what life would be
vehicle for earthly heroism. Each script is
without the university system, public schools,
somewhat unique, each culture has a different
and the variety of public services provided by
hero system. What the anthropologists call
the government agencies. These various
‘cultural relativity’ is thus really the relativity
agencies are never thought of as being
of hero-systems the world over. But each
efficient. Their services are considered so
cultural system is a dramatization of earthly
vital that the very thought of efficiency seems
heroics. But each cultural system is a
to imply an attack on their services. When
dramatization of earthly heroics; each system
was the last time anyone thought of ways to
cuts out roles for performances of various
make the modern university system a cost-
degrees of heroism: from the ‘high’ heroism
effective organization. No one would even
of a Churchill, a Mao, or a Buddha, to the
know how to go about such a plane. Only
‘low’ heroism of the coal miner, the peasant,
about fifty per cent of the employees in
the simple priest; the plain everyday, earthy
public schools have any contact with the
heroism wrought by gnarled working hands
students. Yet anytime cuts are announced, Except for professionals
guiding a family through and executives
hunger and disease.
it is the teachers who are threatened with lay most
THEAmericans
DENIAL OF are emotionally
DEATH, Ernestinvolved
Becker,
offs. neither
p. 5. in their occupation (what they do) nor
Most revolutions are not political, in their job (the place where they do it).
they are economic. The fall of the Soviet What finally relates the average person to
Union was not because people stopped life, space, and people is his own personal
believing in Communism. Most had intimate economy: his family, house, and car.
stopped believing in that years earlier. The He has labelled his occupational world ‘not
nation fell because of economic failures. involved,’ and turned inward upon his own
People will put up with most any conditions little world of family, hobbies, and living
as long as there is enough of life’s standard.
necessities to make life tolerable. If there is CULTURE AGAINST MAN, Jules Henry, p.
any continued shortfall in goods produced, 29.
then people become political. The extremes
which people will go can be seen in the
French Revolution and the Nazi Revolution.
Both came on the scene because of economic failures. People were willing to give up most of
what they valued in life in exchange for some bread and some security. The good leader will
always remember this. Also, it is not necessary to keep the lower classes employed, but the
middle classes. They are the ones who provide the leadership for rebellion. The lower classes
will grumble and maybe throw a few stones, but they can be controlled. They back down when
confronted with force.
With the three arms of government employment three different types of people are kept
content and given some security. The intellectuals are kept busy inside the walls of academia
and are made to feel like they are doing something important. The average, frustrated, middle
class person can be given the “exalted” task of teaching the young. They are made to feel

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important even though they are mere pawns in the manipulation of the young. Others who may
be more action oriented, or less-vocal personalities can be employed in such agencies as Social
Security or the Environmental Protection Agency. As each person is matched to his particular
need, the government has successfully channeled dissent into constructive channels. Even
during hard times, it is vital that the government keep all three of these areas fully employed.
Those who are not connected with any of these organizations will have trouble drawing up
support for any radical change. Radical change will be resisted by all of those who work for the
forces of non-change.

54 THE DESTRUCTION OF FREEDOM THROUGH LIABILITY

A person who could be ruined with any possible misdeed will not act. If to act opens a
person to legal or financial punishments, then people will be prevented from acting. In fact, they
will be glad to be relieved of any obligation to act. When freedom carries penalties too severe
for the individual to survive, then people will gladly turn their freedom over to someone who is

. . . the omnipresent tort tax we pay today was conceived in the 1950s and set in place in the
1960s and 1970s by a new generation of lawyers and judges. In the space of twenty years they
transformed the legal landscape, proclaiming sweeping new rights to sue. Some famous and
more grew rich selling their services to enforce the rights that they themselves invented. . . .
Tort law as we know it is a peculiarly American institution. No other country in the world
administers anything remotely like it.
LIABILITY, Peter W. Huber, pp. 4-5.

not afraid to act or who is not liable. If this is done properly, no one will even notice that the
new leader from the beginning instituted policies which made every mistake in society open to
legal redress. While in times past a person might be sued for incompetence, now anyone who
has something unexpected happen “on his watch” is now open for some form of legal redress.
All that any leader has to do to get his people to hand over all of their freedoms to him is to
make their every public action open to some form of legal review.
Humans have something that is not curable, it is that they are human. No quarterback
completes all of his passes. No batter hits for a 1.000 average. The best basketball player
misses an easy shot. You can expand the list to every profession. What the new leader has
succeeded in doing is to make hitting less than a 1.000 by a doctor an illegal act. Every person is
some area is not just expected to be competent, but is expected to be perfect. When the standard
of behavior is raised so high that maybe only the very best can meet that standard, you have the
foundation for chaos and fear. Once people accept this as something that individuals can be held
accountable for, the leader can step in and offer his services to free his people from the burden of
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 Those who work for the government
Every sale of a car, toaster, or cigarette
can be made above legal redress. Those who
lighter, every hookup of an electric or gas
work for a large corporation can have their
customer, every ticker for an ocean cruise or
liabilities shifted to the corporation. Those
roller coaster ride, every college admission,
who live and work outside the protection of a
hotel room rental, or tensillectomy, is based
governmental or corporate umbrella, are
on contract. The old law depended on buy
exposed to threats of legal liabilities. These
and seller to decide privately beforehand who
liabilities are designed to instill fear into the
would pay for what if an accident befell.
average person. The idea of being ‘wiped
When the courts abandoned contract, they left
out’ through one mistake is enough to make
a cavernous void that had to be refilled. .
even the bravest person take the path of the
LIABILITY, p. 33.
corporate world. One of the most effective
methods to curtail protests at abortion clinics
has been the use of liability laws against the
protesters. The successful lawsuits, waged against those conducting protests, have been very

The tort Founders were intent on rewriting contract, private or public, so that no individual
would ever lose. Their successors discovered, in the end, that they had created a world where
there were far fewer contracts in which anyone ver won. Having allowed the lawyers to cut a
great road through the right of contract to get after the devil, the citizenry had nowhere to hide
when the devil then turned upon them, the contractual landscape now being entirely flat.
LIABILITY, p. 189.

effective in silencing their efforts.

T The leader is well aware that any direct attack upon the freedom of protest will
create a reaction. The best way to control the masses is through the making of
undesirable behavior subject to civil redress. When any group or organization can
be sued for ‘illegal’ behavior, their compliance is almost automatic. Given the cost
of even defending one’s innocense, compliance to the leader’s laws can readily be
expected.

55 THE DESTRUCTION OF TRADITIONS AND MONUMENTS IS VITAL

The destruction of Southern heritage is a symbol of what must be done to every culture
which the new leader seeks to subdue. Memories are dangerous. The empires of Assyria and
Babylon in ancient times understood this process well. When they conquered a nation, they
transplanted the conquered peoples to a new location. The idea was to break an enemy by
destroying his history. The people would no longer be in contact with the land and it memories.
They would no longer see the symbols of their faith, and historical and psychological heritage.
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 In the United States today, the American South is experiencing a similar destruction of
their heritage. It is not possible to transport the residents to another part of the United States.
Thus, the memories of the Southerners must be destroyed just as if they were moved away from
their land. This new form of historical destruction is proving to be very effective. The South has
been subjected to an inflow of a large number of people both from the North and from Mexico.
These people have no memories or ties with the land. As the population has become
increasingly dominated by the newcomers, the history of the Old South has become transformed.
The pride in the South has been turned into one of shame.
As I write this, there is immense pressure throughout the South to change the names of
schools, roads, and places that date back to the Civil War. Monuments are either being removed
or moved to another, not so obvious, location. The Christian history in the South has been
transformed into one of an evil nation that ruled without scruples. The events of the South’s
history are being rewritten to remove the fondness for the old way of life. Even the battlefields
where so many Southerners fought and died, are being changed into mere memories of the
stubbornness of the nation and its lost cause. The real history and beliefs of the Southerners are
being eliminated. A new interpretation of events is being taught to the youth throughout the

What set American culture of the late twentieth century apart is not avarice, but a surfeit of
machine-made things. What is clear is that most of these things in and of themselves simply
do not mean enough. So we have developed very powerful ways to add meaning to goods. . . .
consumption of things and their meanings is how most Western young people cope in a world
that science has pretty much bled of traditional religious meanings.
Generations ago, consumption played out its Saturnalian excesses alongside the church,
literally, at the carnival. Mardi Gras and Lent were connected. Consumption, then denial. . . .
We used to go into the dark cathedral looking for life’s meaning and then do a little shopping
on the side. Now we just go straight to the mall. If you travel about the globe, you will find
that millions are quietly queuing up waiting their turn to start shopping. Woe to that
government or church that tries to turn them back.
LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION, James B. Twitchell, pp. 12,27.

Southern region.
The new leader should study this process because it has been so effective. It has
transformed a whole region without the necessity of physical relocation. It has been so effective
that the people living in the Old South are hardly aware of their once proud and Christian
heritage. The Christians living in the South have even adopted the theologies of their Northern
Brethren. The churches that split during the conflict between the states are now hardly aware of
why they split in the first place. Any person traveling from Boston to Atlanta is hardly aware
that there was once an immense difference between the two regions. The South has been
conquered in such a way, that even war had found impossible to do: A mall in the South looks
just like one in the North. The leader can apply these lessons to every area that he seeks to
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T The new shepherd must write the history books. He must control the holidays, and
the monuments. He must mix people of contrary heritage into the same area. The
resultant conflicts will allow the leader to destroy things that offend him in the name
of being a guardian of peace and a common destiny. Every thing must be done to
make the immigrant group feel that the new land is their land, and any offensive
symbols must be eliminated. The leader thus appears to be a peacemaker rather
than the destroyer of a nation’s past.

56 THE LEADER MUST USE EVERY MEANS NECESSARY TO DEFEND

THE STATE

The new leader must realize that, once he starts his project of bringing the nations
together in one culture, there will be dissenters. Not everyone wants to be part of the new world
culture. Most can be brought into line through the various economic, social, and psychological
pressures that the state has at its disposal. But, and this is very important, there are some who
would rather die than submit to world government. They are not only willing to die, they are
willing to take millions with them on their journey. The current commercials encouraging men
to join the U. S. Army tells people, “You can be an army of one.” Unfortunately, this is truer
than anyone wants to admit. The superior army, in times past, could usually defeat their
opponent. Governments could invest in men and machines knowing that such investments

Change is very rare in the life of any society; it too often produces inconvenience, hardship,
and bewilderment. Eric Hoffer correctly refers to ‘the ordeal of change.’ Habit is our
adaptation to uncertainty. No one familiar with the role of the rebel, the heretic, and the
deviant in most of man’s history will doubt the immense power of tradition and of persistence
in society or the monumental difficulties encountered by the genius, the prophet, or the
individual simply seeking escape from the stifling atmosphere that tradition and conformity
can sometimes lead to.
TWILIGHT OF AUTHORITY, Robert A. Nisbet, p. 141.

would make a difference.

This is no longer true. Today, an army of one can defeat a very well trained army. This
is the age of the reign of the terrorist. This is the new army. And it is very difficult to defeat. If
the new leader is not able to defeat the new army, everything else he does will not matter.
Essentially, all of the king’s horses and all of the king’s men cannot stand up to the threat of
germ, atomic weapons, or attacks of terror. The new leader must understand that the only way to
defeat the new army of one is to take control of every aspect of society. Unless every single
person and his activities in a nation can be controlled, the threat of terrorism will always be
there. The new leader must use every means available to change his nation so that nothing
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 The computer has the technology
An interest in war and in the uses of war
which the leader can use to make every
and of the military is a vivid characteristic of
aspect of life under his control. The issuance
the intellectual mind in Western history. . . .
of nation identification cards, the elimination
War, like revolution, is crisis, and crisis is
of paper money, and the governmental
always an opportunity for a break with the
monopoly on all services must be a priority.
despised present, for liberation from the kinds
The leader must have the ability to find
of authority which are most repugnant to
anyone at any time, and to shut off his supply
bold, creative, and utopian minds.
of goods and services. Any individual who
TWILIGHT OF AUTHORITY, Robert A.
finds himself as a suspect can have his
Nisbet, p. 161.
purchasing power eliminated, his access to
medical and food supplies curtailed, and
making his ability to hide for long virtually
impossible. The masses will consent to such controls as they must be made to fear the deadly
result of any act of terror. Threatened with the contaminated food and water, or the attack of a
deadly virus, the masses will submit.
Thus, the terrorists can be the leader’s allies. He can use their threat to bring about the
defeat of every idea and area of resistance. By using the techniques as outlined above, the new
leader will not only transform his own nation, but can lead his nation in the transformation of the
whole world. The principles that worked so well in the South can be applied to the whole world.
The threat of terrorism can be used to bring even the most stubborn of peoples under control. As
the youth are indoctrinated into the life of hedonism, they will not be willing to suffer pain or
death for any belief. The dream of a world empire ruled by the will of man is about to change
the whole world. The history of the world and all of its conflicts will come to an end. There will
be one leader, one land, one religion, and one life. The new shepherd can bring peace and
security to the whole world. This will be the end of history as it is now taught and initiation of a
whole new man.

T The new leader’s world is about to be in place. Every aspect of reality is in place.
He must be the new evangelist proclaiming the good news. Peace on earth and good
will among all mankind has finally been accomplished. The hope of all history has
become reality. The desires of the ages has been accomplished. The ages of fear are
now to be only a memory. Mankind has become his own master. He is now the
master of his fate.

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Will this new leader bring heaven down to earth, or will he create hell on earth? That is
the story of this age in which we live. Utopias have been tried in various places
throughout history, but the people could always move West to escape. There is no longer
a “West” to travel. We are cornered and trapped. May God help us.

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