Dear George,
Call it “drone management,” that collection of techniques that keeps the unwashed masses satisfied, but not sated. Leaders are able to lead because they have a static perception of reality, a world grounded in their parochial ideology, where change is superficial and can be summed up in two words: squeeze more!
The enemy of this management is the free individual. A free person cannot be oppressed, no matter how oppressive the society he lives in. Each time an order is given, a quiet voice deep in the soul of the free person whispers, “Bullshit!”
The antidote to the free person is the internalization of obedience. Historically, the whipping post and the gallows enforced an external obedience. Now, the agent of internal obedience is the schoolteacher. This is why free public education is so important to the Corporatist State. Not only do our schools teach a trade (yes, an MBA is a glorified form of vocational training), but they condition the student to internalize obedience in the name of freedom. The conditioning begins with the commands to, “Stay in your seat,” and, “Raise your hand before speaking.” Before long, these become automatic responses.
Those who rebel are tested, analyzed, diagnosed, classified and shipped off to special education where they are given a label that is their death warrant.
By the time the student graduates, he believes that regressive progress is progressive. Regressive progress fossilizes the status quo. For example, the exponential progress in electronic gadgetry is regressive in that it has forged chains of bandwidth that shackle the individual to the workplace and to a routine dictated by the oligarchy. Yet, the drones celebrate it as progressive progress.
The five words that neuter freedom are, “That’s the way it is.” It is the mantra that deadens and paralyzes, even as it isolates. And all the time they think they are free.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
6:31:18 AM 
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