Report #TL07A: THE ANATOMY OF SLAVESPEAK

By Frederick Mann, http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml © Copyright 1997 Build Freedom Holdings ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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“Your reasoning is very well thought out and an amazing stepping stone towards true enlightenment. I came across this site years ago and printed out Slavespeak and read it and it made sense. A friend of mine asked me today if I could find books for him on mind control. I told him there is no need for a book, I know of this essay “Slavespeak” that will set him really straight. I hadn’t read this in years and I reread it before printing it and it makes so much more sense now. It is way cool to see you copyrighted this in ‘97 when times were “good.” Most excellent forward uninhibited thinking on your part! Thank You Very Much for your insights.” – Bill Murath (7/25/07)

The original title of this report was “Gulliver’s Travels and Alice in Wonderland.” Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels, was a most advanced freethinker, centuries ahead of his time. He questioned all aspects of religion and politics, particularly in his book A Tale of a Tub. Swift’s best-known classic Gulliver’s Travels is much more than a children’s book; it’s an advanced political analysis. Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was a mathematician and philosopher – and political analyst. The two ‘Alice-books’ can be regarded in part as political tracts disguised as children’s books. This report is an essential aid to understanding the “Spooner-insight” – see Report ”#TL07: The Constitution of No Authority” .

“My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,” said Alice very politely; but she added to herself, “Why, they’re only a pack of cards , after all. I needn’t be afraid of them!” [emphasis added] …The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming, “Off with her head! Off with–” “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” – Joseph Stalin “Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.) “It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

WORDS

The first thing I want you to realize is that the primary tool or WEAPON terrocrats use to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims is. By “terrocrat” I mean “coercive political agent” or “terrorist bureaucrat.” A terrocrat is always an individual human being.

Please think about this issue. How often has a terrocrat stuck a gun in your face and said, “Pay your taxes or else?” Compare this to the number of times terrocrats have sent you pieces of paper with words on them, telling you what to do or what not to do – and what penalties you may be subjected to, if you don’t obey?

Now, please stretch your imagination and imagine a world in which nobody takes the words of terrocrats seriously. They say, “We are the government,” and everyone laughs at them and asks, “Government? – what’s that?” And, whatever they reply, they are greeted with more laughter.

Then they say, “Our word is law; and you must obey.” Everyone just laughs at the terrocrats and asks, “Law? – what’s that?” Again, whatever they reply, they are greeted with more laughter.

How much power would terrocrats have in such a world?

I don’t care how much thought you have to put into this, but it’s absolutely vital that you understand that the primary means terrocrats use to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims is words.

Actually, there are three kinds of “things” terrocrats use to control their victims. The first is violence. The second is money. And the third is words. By violence, here, I mean actual physical violence. (Threats of violence are almost always expressed in words.)

How often has a terrocrat used actual violence to control you? Were you physically dragged into school, or were you persuaded by words to go to school? Has any terrocrat ever used actual physical violence to make you pay taxes, or were you persuaded by words to pay up?

Have you ever been arrested? If so, in what proportion did the cop use actual physical violence compared to words. Did he tell you to put your hands behind your back, or did he force your hands behind your back without saying anything? Notice that even during most arrests, cops use more words than actual physical violence to control their victims.

Have you ever been to court? To what proportion do the terrocrats and lawyers use words in court compared to actual physical violence? Have you ever been to jail? To what proportion do the terrocrats use words in jail compared to actual physical violence?

How much power would terrocrats have in a world in which everyone says “NO!” to them and laughs at whatever they say? Can you begin to appreciate that the power of terrocrats depends largely on victims accepting terrocrat words and obeying them?

What about money? To what extent do terrocrats use money to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims? Well, they say their “law” (words) is that you must use their money; you’re not allowed to print your own. And doesn’t their money largely consist of pieces of paper with words (and a few pictures) on them? In the absence of words, could terrocrats use money to control people? And don’t their “legal tender laws” consist entirely of words? In their book Powershift the Tofflers indicate how power has progressively shifted first from those who command violence to those who command money, and second to those who command information. And doesn’t information consists mostly of words?

What I want you to get, to grasp, to understand is that the power of terrocrats depends more on words than on anything else. Of course, their words have to be accepted, believed, and obeyed by the vast majority of victims. But what would happen if a critical mass of enlightened, emancipated former victims were to reject terrocrat words, were to stop believing them, were to attack and ridicule them whenever appropriate, and were to carefully and judiciously stop obeying them?

Some of the ideas in this report may be threatening to your current knowledge. In his classic book Nineteen-Eighty-Four, George Orwell coined terms like “thoughtcrime” and “crimestop.” If your current knowledge is “legal,” then some of the ideas presented here are “thoughtcrimes.” From the terrocrat perspective, attacking and ridiculing their words is no doubt a thoughtcrime.

Your mind may find it difficult to deal with some of these ideas. Orwell wrote: “Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought… crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.” So, please don’t let crimestop stop you!

The following quote from Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, which can also be found in Basic Money Skills illustrates the basic mechanism of Slavespeak very well:

“Because I had two influential fathers, I learned from both of them. I had to think about each dad’s advice, and in doing so, I gained valuable insight into the power and effect of one’s thoughts on one’s life. For example, one dad had a habit of saying, “I can’t afford it.” The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I say, “How can I afford it?” One is a statement, and the other is a question. One lets you off the hook, the other forces you to think. My soon-to-be-rich dad would explain that by automatically saying the words “I can’t afford it,” your brain stops working. By asking the question “How can I afford it?” your brain is put to work. He did not mean buy everything you wanted. He was fanatical about exercising your mind, the most powerful computer in the world. “My brain gets stronger every day because I exercise it. The stronger it gets, the more money I can make.” He believed that automatically saying “I can’t afford it” was a sign of mental laziness.”

Once you understand political Slavespeak (the language used to establish and maintain master-slave relationships), you become very aware of how those who don’t understand Slavespeak can be dominated, subjugated, and controlled by words – essentially enslaved by words. Correspondingly, you become impervious to external control through words. In other words, you enjoy more freedom – you have more options available to you. If you’re active in promoting freedom, you’ll see that most current freedom-promoting activities, while they may yield short-term benefits, are unlikely to bring about any significant expansion of freedom in the long term. The reason for this is that the most basic way tyrants and terrocrats wield their power is a “control-via-words” mechanism. Most current freedom-promoting activities don’t attack this basic mechanism; in fact, they tend to reinforce and perpetuate it.

Understanding Slavespeak enables you to discard activities you may otherwise waste your precious time on. It enables you to focus on activities most likely to benefit you, while at the same time having the greatest potential for reducing the power of terrocrats, at least insofar as terrocrat actions infringe on you personal life and affairs.

A further benefit of understanding Slavespeak is that you’ll become more aware of how people, generally, are manipulated through words. It will become much more difficult for others to manipulate you. And – if you want to – you’ll become more able to manipulate others.

Understanding and transcending Slavespeak improves your perception of the world and enables you to act or behave more effectively in relation to it. In his article ‘Toward Understanding E-Prime‘ – Robert Anton Wilson says:

“It seems likely that the principal software used in the human brain consists of words, metaphors, disguised metaphors, and linguistic structures in general. The Sapir-Whorf-Korzybski Hypothesis, in anthropology, holds that a change in language can alter our perception of the cosmos. A revision of language structure, in particular, can alter the brain as dramatically as a psychedelic. In our metaphor, if we change the software, the computer operates in a new way.” “If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” – Frank Herbert, ‘The Dosadi Experiment’

“There are still peoples and herds somewhere, but not with us, my brothers: here there are states. The state? What is that? Well then! Now open your ears, for now I shall speak to you of the death of peoples. The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth; ‘I, the state, am the people.’ It is a lie! It was creators who created peoples and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life. It is destroyers who set snares for many and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred desires over them. Where a people still exists, there the people do not understand the state and hate it as the evil eye and sin against custom and law. I offer you this sign: every people speaks its own language of good and evil: its neighbor does not understand this language. It invented this language for itself in custom and law. But the state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies – and whatever it has, it has stolen. Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. Even its belly is false. Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this sign of the state. Truly, this sign indicates the will to death! Truly, it beckons to the preachers of death! Many too many are born: the state was invented for the superfluous! Just see how it lures them, the many-too-many! How it devours them, and chews them, and re-chews them! …It would like to range heroes and honorable men about it, this new idol! It likes to sun itself in the sunshine of good consciences – this cold monster! It will give you everything if you worship it, this new idol: thus it buys for itself the luster of your virtues and the glance of your proud eyes. It wants to use you to lure the many-too-many. Yes, a cunning device of Hell has here been devised, a horse of death jingling with the trappings of divine honors! Yes, a death for many has here been devised that glorifies itself as life: truly a heart-felt service to all preachers of death! I call it the state where everyone, good and bad, is a poison-drinker: the state where everyone, good and bad, loses himself: the state where universal slow suicide is called – life.”

The following is part of the “Fishman Affidavit.” It’s part of the public record of the “Fishman Case #91-6426 HLH (Tx)“:

“US District Court, Central District of California Fishman Case # 1-6426 HLH (Tx) Continued

Exhibit B…

ON CONTROL AND LYING THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. When you find an individual is lying to you, you know that the individual is trying to control you. One way or another this individual is trying to control you. That is the mechanism of control. This individual is lying to you because he is trying to control you – because if they give you enough misinformation they will pull you down the tone scale so that they can control you. Conversely, if you see an impulse on the part of a human being to control you, you know very well that that human being is lying to you. Not “is going to,” but “is” lying to you. Check these facts, you will find they are always true. That person who is trying to control you is lying to you. He’s got to tell you lies in order to continue control, because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher and tougher to control. So, you can’t control somebody without telling them a bunch of lies. You will find that very often Command has this as its greatest weakness. It will try to control instead of leading. The next thing you know, it is lying to the [illegible]. Lie, lie, lie, and it gets worse and worse, and all of a sudden the thing blows up. Well, religion has done this. Organized religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying. After a while it figures out (even itself) that it is lying, and then it starts down tone scale further and further, and all of a sudden people get down along this spring-like bottom (heresy) and say, “Are we going into apathy and die, or are we going to revolt?” And they revolt, because you can only lie to people so long. Unfortunately there is always a new cycle of lying.” – L. Ron Hubbard, ‘Technique 88’

“It is illusions and words that have influenced the mind of the crowd, and especially words – words which are as powerful as they are chimeral, and whose astonishing sway we shall shortly demonstrate,” wrote Gustave le Bon in his classic The Crowd, a century ago.

In The Second Sin Thomas Szasz wrote, “Man is the animal that speaks. Understanding language is the key to understanding man; and the control of language, to the control of man.” Alfred Korzybski, founder of General Semantics indicated that, “Those who control symbols control humanity.“

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

The language used to subjugate, control, and dominate others I lump together as “Slavespeak.” Slavespeak is similar to the word Newspeak, invented by George Orwell and described in his book Nineteen-Eighty-Four. I use Slavespeak in essentially the same way Orwell used Newspeak, except that Slavespeak covers more words than I think Orwell would have regarded as Newspeak.

Slavespeak includes words like:

“state,” “government,” “law,” “king,” “constitution,” “queen,” “president,” “prime minister,” “nation,” “country,” “anthem,” etc.

Slavespeak, as I use the term, has developed over many centuries. I’ve also expanded what I mean by Slavespeak beyond politics.

I specifically use political Slavespeak in the sense of Orwell’s “B vocabulary”: “The ‘B vocabulary’ consisted of words which had been deliberately constructed for political purposes: words, that is to say, which not only had in every case a political implication, but were intended to impose a desirable mental attitude upon the person using them… the ‘B’ words were a sort of verbal shorthand, often packing whole ranges of ideas into a few syllables… even in the early decades of the Twentieth Century, telescoped words and phrases had been one of the characteristic features of political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organizations… the intention being to make speech, and especially speech on any subject not ideologically neutral, as nearly as possible independent of consciousness… ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centers at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word ‘Duckspeak’ meaning ‘to quack like a duck.’” [emphasis added]

Political Slavespeak consists of terrocrat words – words that give terrocrats advantages over their victims; words that – if accepted, believed, and used – put victims at a disadvantage .

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

If a terrocrat can persuade a victim to accept his Slavespeak words, he automatically subjugates his victim. If a victim accepts the Slavespeak words of a terrocrat, he automatically positions himself as a subject in relation to the terrocrat – and the terrocrat gains power over him.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.” [emphasis added] – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

Philosophical; Psychological/Emotional; Economic; Religious; Political/Legal; Scientific; Health; etc.

Slavespeak is not limited to the political domain. It includes all language that may put an individual at a disadvantage in relation to others and to the world in general. Slavespeak probably occurs in most domains of human endeavor:An example of philosophical Slavespeak is the notion of “absolute truth.” Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson of The School of Thought calls it the “ Plato Truth Virus .” I strongly recommend that you do his “ Brain Freebie ” course.

“Nobody likes me,” “Women always betray me,” and “You make me angry” are examples of psychological and emotional Slavespeak.

Al Siebert’s book Peaking Out: How my Mind Broke Free from the Delusions of Psychiatry presents a trenchant description of how psychiatric Slavespeak operates and its consequences. Siebert was awarded a fellowship for post-doctoral psychiatric training at the Menninger Foundation. He dared to question “incontestable psychiatric dogma” and outlined some breakthrough ideas to his “ psychiatrist teachers.”

They were not amused. They had him committed to a psychiatric hospital as a mental patient. The book includes a narrative of Siebert’s real-life experiences as an institutionalized mental patient. It also tells how Siebert saw through the delusional belief system which controls the minds of psychiatrists. A key quote:

“Then their white coats, the diplomas, their titles are cues that keep them in a hypnotic-like trance. Their perceptions of others, the special language they use, the labels they give to patients – all are programmed responses, just like with cult members.” After Siebert left the psychiatric ward and the Menninger Foundation, he had a tremendous peak experience – the kind of peak experience described by psychologist Abraham Maslow. As Siebert was driving south out of Topeka, he suddenly had the feeling that for the first time in his life he was totally free. He writes, “It was glorious! It was a new feeling. Up until then my mind had been controlled by illusions and I hadn’t known it. I started yelling, ‘I’m free! I’m free! My mind is totally free! I can feel it!’ I shouted as loud as I could, ‘My mind is freeeeeeee!” [Siebert’s emphasis]

Freeing your mind from illusions and delusional belief systems can be one of the most liberating things you can experience. It can also be one of the most powerful things you can experience. This report can serve as a starting point for systematically ridding your mind of the major illusions which the vast majority of humans suffer from – particularly in the political domain.

A key phrase in the Siebert quote above is “up until then my mind had been controlled by illusions and I hadn’t known it.” Becoming aware that your mind is controlled by illusions is a major step in freeing yourself from Slavespeak.

Economic Slavespeak consists of language that keeps people trapped in economic failure or poverty. At age 16, I discussed my possible future career with my father. At one point I said, “Well, I could always go into business.” He replied, “You’ll never succeed in business!” – economic Slavespeak. Had I accepted his “economic curse” as valid, it would have condemned me to failure in business.

All religious language which places the individual who accepts it at a disadvantage I regard as religious Slavespeak.

The word “heat” as it was once “understood” by many scientist serves as an example of scientific Slavespeak. In Right Where You Are Sitting Now Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“The language we use influences the thoughts we think much more than the thoughts we think influence the language we use. We are encased in fossil metaphors; verbal chains guide us through our daily reality-labyrinth. “Physicists, for example, spent nearly three centuries looking for a substance, heat, to correspond to the substantive noun, “heat”; it took a revolution in chemistry and thermodynamics before we realized that heat should not be thought of as a noun (a thing) but a verb (a process) – a relationship between the motions of molecules.”

So scientists wasted nearly three centuries because their thinking was essentially entrapped by the word “heat,” as they interpreted it. More on “heat” later.

An example of Slavespeak in the health domain: “Nature is perfect; you shouldn’t try to improve on nature by taking artificial supplements.”

[Note that we could expand the scope of Slavespeak to include symbols like “diplomas,” “national flags,” “uniforms,” “military ceremonies,” “saluting,” “curtsying,” “religious rites,” etc.]

This report deals mainly with political Slavespeak – which proliferates in most cultures.

Two Tribes

Consider two different isolated tribes somewhere in the jungles of South America. Call them Tribe 1 and Tribe 2. Each has its unique language with its own structure. The language of Tribe 1 (Language 1) tends to be very literal. A man who fishes, for example, is called “man-who-fishes.” The same man, while sleeping, is called “man-who-sleeps”; while talking, “man-who-talks”; while running, “man-who-runs”; while eating, man-who-eats”; while writing, “man-who-writes”; while making a chair, “man-who-makes-chair”; while giving orders, “man-who-gives-orders”; etc. In Language 1, distinctions are made between different kinds of words: “Thing-words,” “Do-words,” “How-words,” “Story-words,” “Funny-words,” “Order-words,” “Panic-words,” “What-words,” “Who-words,” “Why-words,” “When-words,” “Where-words,” etc. High-level abstractions are rare in language 1. To the people of Tribe 1, any word that doesn’t refer to something physically perceivable, is highly suspect. Their test for reality is physical.

The language of Tribe 2 (Language 2) is very different. A man who obtains his wherewithal mostly by fishing, is called “fisherman.” (This system of nomenclature would seem absurd to the people of Tribe 1 – how can you call someone a “fisherman” when he is not fishing, but sleeping?) Language 2 contains many high-level abstractions – like “happiness.” People from Tribe 2 can talk for hours about “happiness.” (To someone from Tribe 1, this would be incomprehensible – they only talk about “woman-who-is-happy” while she is happy, and “woman-who-is-sad” while she is sad. The notion that you could separate “happiness” from a real person being happy, and talk about “happiness” as if it existed by itself, would be completely unthinkable to someone from Tribe 1.)

To the people from Tribe 2, any word being used is automatically assumed to be part of existence, otherwise people wouldn’t use it. (To someone from Tribe 1, the word “existence” would be a meaningless absurdity, because in their mentality only particular objects exist.) In Tribe 2, the test for reality is agreement. If other people agree with a word and the way it seems to be used, then that word is automatically accepted as valid and useful.

One day a strange man arrives at the place where the people of Tribe 1 live. They ask him: “Who you?” He: “I King.” They: “Your name King?” He: “No; my name John.” They: “Why call self King if name John?” He: “I special person, agent of God.” They: “You look different but not special; who God?” He: “God creator of world.” They: “Where God?; How create world?” He: “God everywhere; God all-powerful.” They: “How we see God?” He: “Can’t see God.” They: “You speak crazy.” He: “No; I special; I show you.” Whereupon the stranger performs various tricks like apparently making objects appear and disappear. They: “You clever man-who-tricks.” He: “I special; I King.” They: “You speak funny; you clever John-who-tricks.” He: “I King; my word law.” They: “What law? – special word?” He: “Yes; my word law – you must obey.” They: “Ah! You mean order-word!” He: “Yes; I King; I make law.” They: “No; you speak order-word?” He: “Yes; I special.” They: “What special? – Anybody speak order-word?” He: “You not understand.” They: “No.”

Eventually John-the-stranger gives up trying to convince the people of Tribe 1 that he has a “special status” and that his words are different from the words of anyone else – so he leaves, to search for more gullible and impressionable victims elsewhere…

For many days and nights he trudges through the jungle before discovering the people of Tribe 2. They: “Who you?” He: “I King.” They: “Your name King?” He: “No, my name John.” They: “Why call self King if name John?” He: “I special person, agent of God.” They: “You look different; what God?” He: “God creator of world.” They: Where God?; How create world?” He “God everywhere; God all-powerful.” They: “Show special?” Whereupon the stranger performs various tricks like apparently making objects appear and disappear. They: “You King, agent of God.” He: “Yes, my word law.” They: “What law?” He: “Law special word of God through me; you must obey.” Whereupon the people of Tribe 2 bow down and kiss the feet of John – they do not habitually test abstractions against reality, so they readily accept John-the-stranger as their “King” and his word as “law.” Thereafter all he has to do to subjugate, control, and dominate them, is open his mouth…

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

The people from Tribe 1 reject the Slavespeak words of John the would-be-terrocrat – making them impossible to subjugate, control, and dominate. To them the terrocrat is merely a clever liar and trickster.

The Tribe 2 people accept John’s word “King” to describe himself. They believe that “King” John has special powers because of the tricks he performs and because of his connection to “God.” By accepting John’s terrocrat words they automatically place him in a superior position and themselves in inferior positions. Just by accepting, believing, and using the terrocrat word “King,” they yield their power to the terrocrat – they subjugate themselves.

It’s worth emphasizing that just by accepting the concepts/words of the would-be tyrant, you place yourself at a huge disadvantage. By doing so, you relinquish your power, enabling the would-be tyrant to become an actual tyrant. Instead of laughing at his silly notions, you’ll probably end up begging him to “change the law” so you can be free. And guess who has the last laugh!

Neocheating and Deep-Cheating

The concept of “neocheating” comes from the subject “Neo-Tech,” developed by Dr. Frank Wallace. My understanding of the mechanisms of cheating, the extent to which most of us are being cheated, and how to deal with this pervasive cheating received a tremendous boost from studying Neo-Tech and applying its principles. This has made it much easier for me to recognize and confront Slavespeak, and to demystify my brain. This demystification involves identifying, questioning, and exposing the words “neocheaters” and “deep-cheaters” use to dupe their hapless victims.

The following extracts are from the Neo-Tech Discovery, Vol. I:

“The traditional cheater is, for example, the crude sneak thief. He is also the small-time bureaucrat or politician on the take. He needs little skill and much gall to extract his living. But he lives in constant danger of being caught in the act and subjected to the consequences. The classical cheater is, for example, the elegant con-artist thief. He is also the respected technocrat who, for example, helps develop weapons for a repressive government. Application of his skills (that took years to polish or develop) lets him exact a “good” living. His dishonesty usually remains unseen and uncalled by those who surround him as he cheats countless people out of their assets and lives. The neocheater is, for example, the subtle executive thief who climbs to a high-paid corporate position by deceptive machinations rather than by productive efforts. He is also the religious leader who gleans a glorious living by promoting self-sacrifice among the multitudes. And the ultimate neocheater is the politician gracing the highest office. He usurps a sumptuous living, enormous power, and a huge ego trip by converting productive assets of the earners into nonproductive waste for the “public good” through the invisible manipulations of government force (e.g., taxes and regulations). His techniques require neither skill nor effort: he is simply shrewd and subtle enough to keep most people from realizing that he is constantly neocheating them – constantly draining their lives and assets. And most dangerously, he considers his neocheating as necessary for the “good of all.” Neocheaters are by far the deadliest menace to honest and productive people, everywhere… The careful observer will recognize that by far the highest percentage of people involved in building false self-esteems to justify their existences are those pursuing careers in politics and religion. Such careers are by nature anti-productive and depend on neocheating the public to extract money, respect and power… But the supreme value of the neocheating concepts is that those new thinking tools will be the cutting edge for rejecting and eventually eliminating the power of government bureaucrats, political leaders, dishonest businessmen, external authorities, and all other neocheaters. The concepts of neocheating as revealed by the Neo-Tech Discovery are among the most powerful thinking tools for future prosperity.”

For more information, Contact I & O Publishing, 850 S. Boulder Hwy, Henderson, NV 89015 – phone: (702) 891-0300 – fax: (702) 795-8393 – email: Discovery@neo-tech.com

However, there is a level of cheating that is deeper than those identified by Neo-Tech. I call it “deep-cheating.” Deep-cheating has two basic elements:

Inducing people to accept certain concepts or words – like “king,” “law,” “government,” “state,” “nation,” “society,” “country,” etc. (all Slavespeak words) – as valid. This is what John the clever trickster tried to do to the two tribes above in respect of “king” and “law.” Inducing people to accept certain persons as “special” or having “special powers.” John the clever trickster tried to do this by claiming that he was an “agent of God,” and by performing tricks like apparently making objects appear and disappear. Terrocrats are “special” because they are “the government” and only they have “special powers” to do certain things like “make laws.”

As we shall see later, the most effective deep-cheaters are lawyers and their ilk in the “legal” profession.

What Étienne de la Boétie Said

Four-and-a-half centuries ago, in Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Étienne de la Boétie wrote:

“He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you . Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do if you yourself did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? …[F]rom all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces .” [emphasis added]

By voting in political elections; By paying “taxes” to terrocrat-tyrants; By using the Slavespeak words of terrocrat-tyrants.

There are three basic ways victims provide support to terrocrat-tyrants:

In order to grasp the devastating power of Slavespeak words, it’s absolutely vital that you understand that a word in itself can constitute a lie. You don’t need a phrase or sentence to express a lie. One word by itself is enough.

Some one-word lies, like “sunrise” and “sunset” are innocuous. They are lies because the sun doesn’t really “rise” or “set.” Because the earth spins and we spin with it on its surface, it appears as if the sun “rises” and “sets” – if we think of ourselves as stable with the sun moving in relation to us. So the words “sunrise” and “sunset” probably go back to before people realized that the earth revolved. Nevertheless, using the words “sunrise” and “sunset” – even if we realize they’re not strictly correct – doesn’t cause any problems. They are innocuous.

The words “King” and “Queen” – and “Emperor” and “President” (in the political sense as “President” of a “country”) – are likewise lies – one-word lies. Just by accepting the word “Emperor” and thinking and/or talking bout someone else as “Emperor,” you automatically put yourself in an inferior position in relation to him – unless, of course, you call yourself “Emperor of Emperors” and others take you seriously!

“My name is Alice, so please your Majesty,” said Alice very politely; but she added to herself, “Why, they’re only a pack of cards , after all. I needn’t be afraid of them!” [emphasis added] …The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming, “Off with her head! Off with–” “Nonsense!” said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent .” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

By accepting and using the term “Emperor,” you tend to relinquish some of your power to the clever trickster who masquerades as “Emperor.” You position the huckster as your superior; and you position yourself as the huckster’s inferior.

The word “Emperor” is a lie. Because, as De la Boétie said, “He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least man…” There’s nothing “special about him that warrants calling him “Emperor.” Calling him “Emperor” is a form of idolatry.

Some people go part of the way in exposing the lie by proclaiming, “The Emperor has no clothes!” But to go all the way, you have to ask, “Why do you hallucinate an ordinary naked man as “Emperor” (so-called)?” By “hallucinate” I basically mean “seeing what’s not there.” Where there is an ordinary man, the idolater “sees” something extra or “special” that makes the ordinary man an “Emperor.”

Simply by using the word “Emperor” as if valid, you reinforce, spread, and perpetuate the lie – and you support the tyrant. You relinquish some of your power to him; you subjugate yourself. To withdraw support you have to stop hallucinating him as an “Emperor” and see the physical reality of an ordinary naked man. You have to stop calling him “Emperor”; stop thinking of him as “Emperor.”

“She looked at the Queen, who seemed to have suddenly wrapped herself up in wool. Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn’t make out what had happened at all. Was she in a shop? And was that really – was it really a sheep that was sitting on the other side of the counter?” – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

(In other words, the person you’ve been hallucinating as a “Queen” is really a sheep! – a major theme of the ‘Alice Books.’)

Robert Anton Wilson wrote as follows in his book Right Where You Are Sitting Now:

“On a night in September 1927 when he contemplated suicide at the age of 32, Buckminster Fuller decided to live the rest of his life as an experiment. He wouldn’t believe anything anybody told him – “golden rule,” “dog-eat-dog,” or any of it – and would try to find out by experience only, what could be physically demonstrated to work. In the year following that decision, Bucky stopped talking entirely, like many mystics in the east. He insists that he had nothing “mystical” in mind. “I was simply trying to free myself of conditioned reflexes,” he said. He had met pioneer semanticist Alfred Korzybski shortly before and was convinced that Korzybski was correct in his claim that language structures caused conditioned associations – mechanical reactions that keep us locked into certain perceptual grids. Fuller tried to break these grids, to find out what a person “of average intelligence” could accomplish if guided only by personal observation and experiment… The language we use influences the thoughts we think much more than the thoughts we think influence the language we use. We are encased in fossil metaphors; verbal chains guide us through our daily reality-labyrinth. Physicists, for example, spent nearly three centuries looking for a substance, heat, to correspond to the substantive noun, “heat”; it took a revolution in chemistry and thermodynamics before we realized that heat should not be thought of as a noun (a thing) but a verb (a process) – a relationship between the motions of molecules. Around the turn of this century – this is all old news, even though most literary “intellectuals” still haven’t heard about it – several mathematicians and philosophers who were well versed in the physical sciences began to realize consciously that there is not necessarily a “thing” (a static and block-like entity) corresponding to every noun in our vocabulary.” [emphasis added]

The word “heat” – in the sense of a substance – is a one-word lie. In reality there is no substance or thing that corresponds to the word “heat.” When we say that something is “hot,” we describe a condition or state. To then assume that there is a thing called “heat,” that exists independently of the hot object, is silly.

Similarly, as we saw earlier in the case of Tribe 1, the idea that there is a thing or substance called “happiness,” that exists independently of a person being happy, is absurd.

“What’s the use of their having names,” the Gnat said, “if they won’t answer to them?” “No use to them,” said Alice; “but it’s useful to the people that name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?” – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

Now let’s examine the phenomenon of “addition” as described by William James in his lecture “Pragmatism and Humanism”:

“In many familiar objects every one will recognize the human element. We conceive a given reality in this way or in that, to suit our purpose, and the reality passively submits to our conception… We carve out groups of stars in the heavens, and call them constellations, and the stars patiently suffer us to do so,–though if they knew what we were doing, some of them might feel much surprised at the partners we had given them. We name the same constellations diversely, as Charles’s Wain, the Great Bear, or the Dipper… In all these cases we humanly make an addition to some sensible reality, and that reality tolerates the addition.”

The above comes from the book Pragmatism and four essays from The Meaning of Truth . The entry in the index is worded, “Additions, human, to the given.”

OK. So there are stars out there. They are the given. Looking at them from earth, some of them seem to constitute “groups” and we call such a “group” a “constellation.” However, some of the stars in a supposed “constellation” are much further from earth than others. There’s no basis in reality to regard them as a “group” or “constellation” – as opposed to a flock of birds that actually fly together, or a galaxy of stars that actually move together.

Hallucination essentially means allegedly “seeing” something that isn’t there. In reality there are a number of stars. We “see” a supposed “constellation,” where in reality there’s no “constellation” – only individual stars. We add or hallucinate the falsely-called “constellation.”

This phenomenon of adding to reality – hallucinating what isn’t really there – is an essential aspect of Slavespeak. Thus an ordinary man is hallucinated as an “Emperor” or a “King.” In our mind we add something “special” to an ordinary man, and we “see” him as an “Emperor” or a “King.”

Similarly we add “something” to ordinary words, and as if by magic they become “the law.”

Likewise, ancient scientists perceived hot objects and assumed (“saw” that) there must be a substance called “heat.” This notion of “heat” as a substance is an unwarranted addition to the given (hot object). It’s a kind of hallucination – trying to “see” what isn’t there.

What Robert Anton Wilson Said

In his Introduction to the book The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.), Robert Anton Wilson wrote:

“I remember the first time I entered Alternate Reality and accepted a lie as fact. I was five or six years old at the time and my parents had taken me to see a wonderful movie called “The Wizard of Oz”…

Only a small part of our brains, or our “selves,” is able to resist the lies of a good artist. Nobody can sit through “Alien,” I would wager, without at least one sound of fear or distress escaping their lips during that “ordeal” …which consists only of looking at pictures projected on a screen…

A movie theater is the best place to learn the true meaning of Plato’s parable of the prisoners in the cave, who accept shadows as reality. Every artist who moves us, from a movie maker to Beethoven or Shakespeare, is a bit of a hypnotist.

In this sense that seemingly stupid and mechanical contraption we call “society” must rank as the greatest artist on the planet. For instance, when I was seven or eight, and feeling superior to the kids who closed their eyes “during the scary parts,” I was entering a deep hypnosis created by another Virtual Reality called language. This hypnosis was a worse nightmare than the Wicked Witch of the West or King Kong or the Wolf-Man or any of their kith and kin, but it made me a “member of society”…

The hypnosis was performed by the good and pious nuns at the school to which my parents sent me… As a result of all the lies the nuns told me, I became a pretty good liar myself… At seventeen I became a Trotskyist. That was hot stuff in New York in the late 1940s. We Trots were more radical than anybody, or we thought we were. Of course, I was lying to myself again. Who the hell knows enough, at seventeen, to make an intelligent or informed choice among competing political ideologies? I had picked Trotskyism because one part of my mind was still Catholic and needed a hierarchy; the Central Committee made a good substitute for the Vatican. It allowed me to feel modern, scientific, “altruistic,” brave, rebellious etc. and it did all my thinking for me.

At eighteen I quit The Party just before they could expel me. I pledged allegiance to the principles of individualism, free thought and agnosticism. From now on, I said, I will not by hypnotized by groups: I will think for myself. Naturally, I then spent over 20 years following various intellectual and political fads, always convinced I had at last escaped group conditioning and finally started “really” thinking for myself…

All this, mind you, occurred within the network of language–the Virtual Reality created by the strange symbol-making capacity of the upper quarter inch of our front brain. Language created God and Satan and Hell, in my childhood, and it created Liberty and Equality and Justice and Natural Law and other fictions that obsessed me at other stages of my “development.” Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us. [emphasis added]

Is it is possible to use language to undo the hallucinations [emphasis added] created by language? The task seems impossible, but Zen riddles, Sufi jokes, the works of Aleister Crowley, and a few heroic efforts by philosophers such as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein seem able to jolt readers awake – shake them out of the hypnosis of words.”

“Constitution” as a One-Word Lie

“There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any country, possessed of the right or the power of binding and controlling posterity to the ‘end of time,’ or of commanding for ever how the world shall be governed, or who shall govern it; and therefore, all such clauses, acts, or declarations, by which the makers of them attempt to do what they have neither the right nor the power to do, nor the power to execute, are in themselves null and void. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies… Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.” – Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“The constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago… we know, historically, that only a small portion of the people then existing were consulted on the subject, or asked, or permitted to express either their consent or dissent in any formal manner. Those people, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now… and the constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them. They had no natural power or right to make it obligatory upon their children… they did not even attempt to bind them. That is to say, the instrument does not purport to be an agreement between anybody but “the people” then existing; nor does it… assert any right, power, or disposition, on their part, to bind anybody but themselves… The constitution itself, then, being of no authority, on what authority does our government practically rest? On what ground can those who pretend to administer it, claim the right to seize men’s property, to restrain them in their natural liberty of action, industry and trade, and to kill all those who deny their authority to dispose of men’s properties, liberties and lives at their pleasure or discretion?”

“Since late Neolithic times, men in their political capacity, have lived almost exclusively by myths [more appropriate: “fraudulent fabrications” or “murderous misrepresentations!”] And these political myths have continued to evolve, proliferate, and grow more complex and intricate, even though there has been a steady replacement of one by another over the centuries. A series of entirely theoretical constructs, sometimes mystical, usually deductive and speculative, they seek to explain the status and relationships in the community… It is the assault upon the abstract and verbal underpinnings of this institution which draws blood, so to speak… those who attack the rationale of the game… are its most formidable adversaries.”

“In practice, the constitution has been an utter fraud from the beginning. Professing to have been ‘ordained and established’ by we, the people of the United States, it has never been submitted to them, as individuals, for their voluntary acceptance… very few of them have ever read, or even seen it; or ever will read or see it. Of its legal meaning (if it can be said to have any) they really know nothing; and never did. Nor ever will know anything.”

In his pamphlet, ‘No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority,’ attorney (one of the few good ones) Lysander Spooner wrote in 1870:When I first read Spooner’s pamphlet it was an assault on my whole knowledge structure. It triggered a process of questioning many concepts: “Constitution” (so-called) – what does this word represent in reality? If Spooner was right, then it represented but an empty fraud. It also meant that words did not necessarily correspond with reality. There were “fraud-words” which served only to mislead. And if there is no valid “constitution,” then what does the word “country” mean? What does it really represent? Similar questions followed about “government,” “state,” “king,” “law,” etc. In the Introduction by James J. Martin to Spooner’s “No Treason” I read:Spooner also attacked words and phrases like “the government,” “our country,” “the United States,” “member of congress,” “King,” “constitution of the United States,” “nations,” “the people,” “emperor,” “divine right,” “president,” “monarch,” “ambassador,” “national debt,” “senator,” “judge,” etc. He implied that these were all fraud-words to dupe the gullible. In a letter to Thomas F. Bayard, Spooner wrote:Spooner indicated that the people who masqueraded as the so-called “government” could be more accurately described as fraudulent impostors or a “secret band of thieves, robbers and murderers.”

This is how Rick Maybury described the creation of the so-called “US Constitution” in his article “Profiting from the Constitutional Convention” in the Investment Newsletter “World Market Perspective,” Vol. XVII, No. 11, Nov. 1984 (WMP Publishing Company, P.O. Box 2289, Winter Park, Florida 32790, USA – free sample issue on request):

On March 10, 1783, at the town of Newburgh, New York, a group of generals met to plan a military coup. The generals offered the leadership to an officer the troops had respected and admired for many years… [F]or several days the officer pondered whether or not he would accept the offer to become military dictator of America… [F]inally, on March 15, 1783, he announced his decision to decline. His name was George Washington… …[T]he First Constitutional Convention which commenced on May 14, 1787 had George Washington presiding. This is the convention that created our current constitution. The procedures and results of this convention have long been held to be legal, ethical, constitutional, patriotic and in every other way proper… [I]t was held in secret. It had a hidden agenda. It was surrounded by clandestine meetings in which numerous deals were struck. The delegates intended to draw vast amounts of new power into the hands of the federal government and they violated every restriction their legislatures tried to impose on them. The First Constitutional Convention was actually a military coup. The history books do not describe it this way, but that is what it was… It may have been the slickest, smoothest, most well-lubricated coup any nation has ever experienced. To this day, most Americans do not understand what was really done to them. They look back on it all and smile wistfully.”

In reality there never has been and there isn’t now a “country” or “nation” called the “United States of America.” (The fact that several hundred million people think of themselves as “Americans” constituting “the American nation” is at best a convenient, shared fiction, but doesn’t constitute reality.) There never has been and there isn’t now a “government” of the “USA” – there have only been hucksters who masqueraded as “government” and suckers who believed them. All the falsely-called “Presidents,” “Secretaries,” “Congressmen,” “Judges,” “Ambassadors,” etc. have been liars and impostors. (All these people have been – and are now – “ordinary naked humans” hallucinated by most as being exalted, when in reality they are mere liars and impostors.) Spooner’s reasoning also applies to all the “American States” as well as all other pretended “countries” – all the “political systems” in the world are fraudulent hoaxes, all the “government officials” are liars and impostors – albeit unwitting. In reality there never have been and there aren’t now any so-called “laws” in any of these pretended “countries.” (To regard some of the noises and scribbles that emanate from the mouths and pens of political impostors as “the law” is a stupefying and debilitating hallucination.) In addition to what is now being done to expand freedom in the world, some radically different strategies need to be developed and implemented.

The implications of the falsely-called “US Constitution” being a fraud and a hoax are far-reaching and very difficult to confront by most:[Of course, terrocrats don’t like certain things being questioned. For example the so-called “14th Amendment” to the pretended “US Constition” states: “The validity of the public debt… shall not be questioned.”]

The Ability of Reframing

In Open to Change, Vincent Nolan wrote:

“Reframing means looking at a familiar phenomenon from a new angle. Any situation can be looked at in a wide variety of different frameworks, and each one is capable of throwing a new light on the subject… [T]he ability and willingness to set aside the conventional framework (temporarily) is one of the key skills of invention and discovery… [T]hese pigeon holes into which we classify things and situations, events and people, are themselves arbitrary and artificial: convenient and useful for some purposes – but one, not the only way to view the world. The pigeon holes can be suspended (temporarily) and new ones brought to bear, without cost and with profit. There is another important dimension to reframing. Once we accept that the same thing can be viewed in many different ways, all of them potentially useful, it is no longer necessary to impose our view of things on other people, we can accept theirs as alternative viewpoints, valid for themselves, and potentially enriching our understanding of the situation.”

”…[A]t a Grand Committee, some Days ago, this important Discovery was made by a certain curious and refined Observer; That Sea-men have a Custom when they meet a Whale, to fling him out an empty Tub, by way of Amusement, to divert him from laying violent Hands upon the Ship. This Parable was immediately mythologiz’d: The Whale was interpreted to be “Hobbes’s Leviathan,” which tosses and plays with all other Schemes of Religion and Government, whereof a great many are hollow, and dry, and empty, and noisy, and wooden, and given to Rotation.”

””The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then – to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you. Look at what a lot of things there are to learn…” – Merlyn, The Once and Future King

In A Tale of A Tub Jonathan Swift wrote:Some years ago I visited a Luxembourg bank to deposit some paper money and buy gold coins. I had to wait in line. I started talking to the man behind me. After a while he told me he was a libertarian. After we’d concluded our business we met in a nearby cafe for coffee. I told him that I was also a libertarian. “Libertarian!” he snorted, “practically all so-called libertarians are still so conditioned and so far from the truth, they don’t know the first thing about liberty.”

I looked at him in surprise. I considered libertarians to be the leading edge of human evolution. There followed a sometimes heated discussion about many aspects and principles of libertarianism. Time and time again this most extreme radical questioned even the words I used, for example: When I asked, “What about the laws of a country?” my new friend responded:

“Haw, haw, haw,” laughing almost hysterically. I thought he would fall off his chair. Several people in the cafÃ© looked at him in bemusement. “What about the barking of copulating baboons in the zoo?” he said.

I was bewildered: “What’s so funny?”

“My friend,” he said, “like most so-called libertarians, you don’t have the foggiest notion of what exists and what doesn’t. You believe in magical “law” like a spiritualist believes in supernatural “ghosts”… except… except that your belief is possibly even more absurd than that of the spiritualist. You see, I’ve heard of people who claim that they have seen “ghosts”; there are even purported photographs of “ghosts.” But I’ve never heard of anyone who claims that he has seen a so-called “law,” never mind photographed it.”

“Anyway,” I said, “what does all this have to do with liberty?”

“My aspirant-libertarian friend,” he replied, “When you free your mind from the false concepts and misconceptions that fixate your thinking within the mental grooves fashioned by those who seek to enslave you, then you will discover what liberty really is, then you will be able to live free. Most so-called libertarians are like pigs hopelessly floundering in a cesspool of statist concepts. Just as it is almost impossible or a fish to imagine life on land, so it is very difficult, if at all possible, for an aspirant-libertarian locked into statist concepts, to conceive of life outside his self-created cesspool…“

[I apologize for my friend’s outspoken, even insulting, turn of phrase. I believe he simply used such strong words to get his point across to me, which he certainly did. If you’re a libertarian, please don’t be offended, rather look for what you can learn from my friend.]

For a while we were both silent. Then he continued, “In actuality, the whole world is an Anarchy. Individuals are supreme, whether they know it or not. We all have virtually unlimited choice all the time – we may assume notions and beliefs that limit our choice, we may also get ourselves into situations where choice is limited… but those are also choices… objectively, there are no so-called “states,” “governments,” “kings,” “queens,” etc.; there never have been and there never will be – I have asked many people to show me a “government” and to tell me what it looks like. Nobody has been able to do that. Of course, there are hucksters who call themselves “government,” “king,” or “president”… just as there are suckers who believe them – who blindly obey them – or who blindly oppose them.”

“You need to live your life in accordance with actuality: what is, what exists, what occurs. So I live my life out of a context of liberty, a libertarian enclave, an anarcho-libertarian enclave. I carry it with me like an aura. I have abilities: the ability called life, the ability to own property, the ability to produce, the ability to exchange, the ability to communicate. And my abilities do not depend on the agreement of others. I am supreme. I rule no one and no one rules me. I am responsible for every aspect of my life. My self-esteem, my power and my liberty can only be curbed by my own limitations. There are of course those who think otherwise, who would seek to violate my abilities – what you might call “rights.” When making choices, I take that into consideration.”

The Deadly Word “Law”

(This report deals with “law” in the sense of “human law.” In Report ‘#TL20: The Principles of Meta-Information,’ “law” in the sense of “scientific law” is examined.)

For some reason, it seems that most people find it difficult to question the validity of the concept or word “law.” So we find that Robert Ringer, in his book Restoring the American Dream, in Chapter 8: “Keeping It All in Place,” indicates that the political system is kept in place by the terrocrat (statist) words I include under Slavespeak. Ringer specifically tackles words like “country” and “government,” but never questions or challenges the word “law.”

And in Million Dollar Habits Ringer writes:

“Back to the subject of reality: We must continue to remind ourselves that we are not operating in an ideal laboratory stocked with rational people brimming over with rational thoughts. If you ignore this reality, you do so at your own peril. Man-made laws are a reality , regardless of whether or not they are rational or moral, and regardless of whether or not you or I like them. Therefore, within reason, and to the extent possible, you should attempt to obey man-made laws if only because it is pragmatic to do so. It’s extremely difficult to achieve any great degree of success from inside a prison cell.” [emphasis added]

You almost got it right, Mr. Ringer! The reality is that most people hallucinate some terrocrat noises and scribbles as “man-made law.” Nevertheless, your advice is sound, because there are terrocrats with guns who hallucinate likewise and who behave as if “man-made laws are a reality.”

Maybe there’s a psychological reason for idolizing the concept of “law.” First of all, historically and traditionally it’s been very dangerous to challenge any specific so-called “law.” The impostor masquerading as “King” said, “My word is law.” Anyone who disobeyed the supposed “law” took the risk of having his head chopped off.

To now go even further – and deeper – and challenge the very notion of “law” must be virtually unthinkable to most. Let me repeat what George Orwell said: “Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought… crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”

From the terrocrat’s point of view, the ultimate crime must be to challenge the very notion of “law.” The word “law” might be the most hypnotic word in the English language.

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

I speculate that in a sense human consciousness rests on a fundamental set of concepts. If you challenge any of these concepts, it seems as if a person’s entire consciousness is being challenged or threatened; “cognitive dissonance” occurs; and the mind seems to shut off – crimestop sets in.

Some time ago I did an experiment with a French-speaking girlfriend who has studied so-called “law.” I asked her to repeat this sentence, “La notion de la “loi” (soi-disant) est une hal-loi-cination” – “The notion of the “law” (so-called) is an hal-law-cination.” She had great difficulty in just saying the words… I’ve repeated this experiment several times with similar results.

Interestingly, Jonathan Swift had no problem with questioning the “law” concept. He wrote in Gulliver’s Travels:

“There was another point which a little perplexed him… I had said, that some of our crew left their country on account of being ruined by ‘law’… but he was at a loss how it should come to pass, that the ‘law’ which was intended for ‘every’ man’s preservation, should be any man’s ruin. Therefore he desired to be further satisfied what I meant by ‘law,’ and the dispensers thereof… because he thought nature and reason were sufficient guides for a reasonable animal, as we pretended to be, in showing us what we ought to do, and what to avoid… I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, accordingly as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves .” [emphasis added]

Most people have never questioned even one of the words they use habitually. According to the principle of inertia, it’s easier to continue to think the way you’ve always thought. Questioning some of your basic concepts involves a dramatic change of direction – and some vigorous, energetic thought! Questioning something about physical reality is relatively easy, e.g., I claim that the table has four legs. Simple observation settles the issue. No complex thought processes are involved. However, in questioning the validity of a concept or word, we have to use the word, while at the same time invalidating the word. So we use syntax like “the “law” (so-called)” – self-referencing syntax – involving a complex thought process many may find difficult. Furthermore, the word “law” is a high-level abstraction. In the case of “the table” there is a simple one-to-one relationship between the symbol (word) and the object it represents – the referent. Because “law” is in the domain of verbal reality , the issue of the word’s validity cannot be settled by simple observation. While you can see the ink in a so-called “lawbook,” you cannot find a simple relationship between the symbol “law” and its referent(s). If you talk to your peers in the manner I do to challenge the basic political Slavespeak words, they’ll mostly think you’re crazy. What you say will make little or no sense to them – like the previous paragraph! Thus peer pressure tends to act as a powerful crimestop to prevent you from expressing dangerous thoughts like “the falsely-called “law”.” We don’t have a convenient, easy-to-use syntax for questioning words or concepts. I suspect that many people find it difficult to process statements about verbal reality . So much so, that when I make a statement like, “The notion that someone is a “King” is a form of idolatry or hallucination” (a statement about verbal reality), they will compulsively “translate” (distort) it into, “He’s saying that Kings don’t exist” (a statement about physical reality). Maybe certain words – like “law,” “state,” and “government” – have such powerful hypnotic effects on people, that if they try to question and challenge them, their consciousness “turns down a few notches” and they can’t think properly.

Actions have consequences. Humans have minds they can use to calculate and predict – at least to some extent – the consequences of actions. Obedience can be dangerous because it tends to become a substitute for thought (calculation and prediction). The more you think for yourself, rather than obey others, the more you learn and the more effective you become. Knowledge advances. Today’s wisdom becomes tomorrow’s superstition.

Therefore question everything. H

ow much power could terrocrats have in such a

world?

Other possible reasons why many people may find it difficult to question their concepts or words might be:OK, so let’s imagine a world in which the concept “law” (in the sense of man-made “law”) is completely absent. Suppose that from an early age. children in such a world are taught principles like:

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law,” said Aleister Crowley. To me this means that people will do whatever they will do, irrespective of what any supposed “law” might dictate. The idea that if terrocrats were to “make a law,” it would solve a problem, is quite silly. People will still do what they will. They may change their behavior because of the supposed “law,” but often they will tend to do so in ways different from terrocrat expectations.

The notion that humans can be “controlled” by “laws” is fundamentally flawed. This is so because humans are volitional entities with minds to think, decide, and initiate independent action.

Of course, humans may relinquish their ability to think, decide, and act volitionally – if they accept terrocrat noises and scribbles as “laws” they must obey, defy – or repeal.

If you regard another’s noises and scribbles as “the law,” then you position that person as your superior master, and you position yourself as his inferior slave. You subjugate yourself. In effect, you commit a form of intellectual and psychological suicide. That’s why the idea or concept of “law” is so deadly.

As Voltaire said, “People who believe absurdities, will commit atrocities.” And Jeremy Bentham wrote, “Out of one foolish word may start a thousand daggers.” (Bentham’s Theory of Fictions by C.K. Ogden.) So, how many crimes are committed and how many people are killed as a result of the general acceptance of the “law” concept? (By “crime” I mean “a willful act that harms another or his property.”)

Above, I claimed that the notion of “law” was a stupefying and debilitating hallucination. It’s stupefying because its form is: “Don’t think; just do it because it’s the law!” For many, “law” is a substitute for thought. “I don’t have to think what to do because the law tells me what to do!”

The notion of “law” is debilitating because of its form: “You can’t do it because it’s against the law!” “You must do it because it’s the law!” Many freedom-lovers believe that they can’t be free because of “all the laws that curtail their freedom.” Many expend a great deal of time and effort “fighting to change the law,” when their efforts could perhaps be better utilized by following other strategies.

Antony Solomon wrote the following poem:

THE ENEMY WITHIN

Why do you fear his “parliament,” This all oppressive “government,” When darker things lurk deep inside Your mind; crawling, scuttling, they hide.

Words by far than “police-state law,” More corrupt than any “legislature,” Taxing far above the progressive rate; A self-made ghost does, your soul subjugate.

For the “rulers of men” are nought but dust They rise, dictate, but fall they must. Though out of sight, not out of mind, see? The ‘ghost in the machine’ saying – you’re not free.

Oh deeply wounding psychoplasm, Why hauntest thou in the mind’s chasm? Why crippleth thee what gives thee home, Why soil thy nest like a common gnome?

Out, out damn spook, begone I say! For I have resolved, myself, this day, That I stand free in body and soul, Not hindered by chains nor ghoul.

In The Crowd, Gustave le Bon wrote: “Civilization is impossible without traditions, and progress impossible without destroying those traditions… no example could better display the power of tradition on the mind of crowds. The most redoubtable idols do not dwell in temples, nor the most despotic tyrants in palaces; both the one and the other could be broken in an instant. But the invisible masters that reign in our innermost selves are safe from every effort at revolt, and only yield to the slow wearing away of centuries…

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognizable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called into question. Every general belief being little else than fiction, it can only survive on the condition that it be not subjected to examination…

The only real tyrants that humanity has known have always been the memories of its dead or the illusions it has forged itself.” [emphasis added]

The debilitating “law” concept is an invisible master in the innermost self, a tyrant in the form of a self-forged illusion or hallucination.

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

Lawyers: The Dispensers of “Law” “The lawyer has learned how to flatter his master in word and indulge him in deed; but his soul is small and unrighteous… From the first he has practiced deception and retaliation, and has become stunted and warped. And so he has passed out of youth into manhood, having no soundness in him…”

– Plato, 321 BC!

John Bunyan wrote in The Pilgrim’s Progress, more than three centuries ago:

“Worldly wiseman: why in yonder village (the village is named morality) there dwells a gentleman, whose name is legality, a very judicious man, and a man of a very good name, that has skill to help men off with such burdens as thine is, from their shoulders; yea, to my knowledge, he hath done a great deal of good this way; ay, and besides, he hath skill to cure those that are somewhat crazed in their wits with their burdens. To him, as I said, thou mayest go, and be helped presently…

Evangelist… thou must hate his setting of thy feet in the way that leadeth to the ministration of death… he to whom thou wast sent for ease, being by name legality, is the son of that bondwoman… which thou hast feared will fall on thy head… how canst thou expect by them to be made free? This legality, therefore, is not able to set thee free from thy burden. No man was as yet ever rid of his burden by him; no, nor is ever like to be. Ye cannot be justified by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no man living can be rid of his burden; therefore, Mr. Worldly Wiseman is an alien, and Mr. Legality is a cheat; and for his son Civility, notwithstanding his simpering looks, he is but a hypocrite, and cannot help thee. Believe me, there is nothing in all this noise that thou hast heard of these sottish men, but a design to beguile thee of thy salvation, by turning thee from the way in which I had set thee.” [emphasis added]

It’s interesting that John Bunyan already recognized so long ago that lawyers essentially make noises. About a century after Bunyan, Jonathan Swift wrote in Gulliver’s Travels about lawyers:

“It is likewise to be observed that this society hath a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their “laws” are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong…

Here my master, interposing, said it was a pity, that creatures endowed with such prodigious abilities of mind as these lawyers, by the description I gave of them, must certainly be, were not rather encouraged to be instructors of others in wisdom and knowledge. In answer to which, I assured his honor, that in all points out of their own trade they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse, as in that of their own profession.”

Question: Who are the most effective practitioners of Slavespeak? The terrocrats or the lawyers? What percentage of top terrocrats are also lawyers? Who then are the biggest enemies of freedom?

In Bentham’s Theory of Fictions Jeremy Bentham wrote:

“Behold here one of the artifices of lawyers. They refuse to administer justice to you unless you join with them in their fictions; and then their cry is, see how necessary fiction is to justice! Necessary indeed; but too necessary; but how came it so, and who made it so?

As well might the father of a family make it a rule never to let his children have their breakfast till they had uttered, each of them, a certain number of lies, curses, and profane oaths; and then exclaim, “You see, my dear children, how necessary, lying, cursing, and swearing are to human sustenance!”

Many of us regard lawyers as “special” people, with something “extra” – knowledge of “the law” – masters of the terrocrat words of what must be done and what may not be done. (Fortunately, many people also have a poor opinion of lawyers, in fact, lawyers are widely in disrepute!)

Lewis Carroll wrote in The Hunting of the Snark:

“He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court, Where the Snark, with a glass in its eye, Dressed in gown, bands, and wig, was defending a pig On the charge of deserting its sty.

The Witnesses proved, without error or flaw. That the sty was deserted when found: And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law In a soft under-current of sound. The indictment had never been clearly expressed, And it seemed that the Snark had begun, And had spoken three hours, before anyone guessed What the pig was supposed to have done.

The Jury had each formed a different view (Long before the indictment was read), And they all spoke at once, so that none of them knew One word that the others had said.

‘You must know–’ said the Judge: but the Snark exclaimed, ‘Fudge!…”

Consider the entire “legal system” – the “lawmakers,” the lobbyists, the lawyers, the police, the inspectors and investigators, the prosecutors, the judges, the prisons, the prison guards, the parole officers, etc., etc. It’s a huge “legal” industry. And who benefits most? The lawyers. Who benefits most from the growth of the “legal” industry? The lawyers. Who are the best-paid people in this “legal” industry? The lawyers. Who are the biggest enemies of freedom?

What is the one concept/word that essentially forms the foundation of this entire “legal” industry”? “Law!” – Fudge!

Words as Enemy Weapons In “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” C.S. Lewis describes how a very prestigious Devil lectures newly graduated “Tempters” on how to collect souls:

“Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning. They won’t. It will never occur to them that democracy is properly the name of a political system, even a system of voting, and that this has only the most remote and tenuous connection with what you are trying to sell them…

You are to use the word purely as an incantation; if you like, purely for its selling power…

Under the influence of this incantation those who are in any or every way inferior can labor more wholeheartedly and successfully than ever before to pull down everyone else to their own level. But that is not all. Under the same influence, those who come, or could come, nearer to a full humanity, actually draw back from it for fear of being undemocratic…

What I want to fix your attention on is the vast, overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence – moral, cultural, social, or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how “democracy” (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient Dictatorships, and by the same methods?…

For “democracy” or the “democratic spirit” (diabolical sense) leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or simper at the first hint of criticism. And that is what Hell wishes every democratic people to be.” [emphasis added]

Notice that in a sense it’s the word “democracy” that does the work, so to speak. The terrocrat just has to utter the word, and all the rest follows. It’s as if the word has a kind of magical power in that the desired consequences result from the terrocrat just uttering the word.

The use of a word can have automatic consequences. Repeat: THE USE OF A WORD CAN HAVE AUTOMATIC CONSEQUENCES. Terrocrat words are weapons.

Furthermore, in general, terrocrats can use their words against you, but you can’t use their words against them. “We are the government; we represent the will of the people; we have a mandate from the people – you’re a radical extremist; you’re a selfish, uncaring libertarian dreamer; you’re a threat to American values.”

He who gives the names has the power. Repeat: HE WHO GIVES THE NAMES HAS THE POWER. “Don’t listen to the terrocrats; they just want to dupe you with their mindless slogans, take away your freedom by violating your rights at every turn, and empty your pocket with their exorbitant, confiscatory taxes.”

“They are not the falsely-called “government”; they are terrocrat crime-syndicate lawyers who violate your rights, thieves who steal your property with their forfeiture scams, murderers who gas and burn innocent women and children in Waco – and they want to take away all private guns like Hitler did, so they can gas and shoot anyone with impunity!”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master – that’s all.”

– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

The Killer Word “Government” In Restoring The American Dream Robert Ringer acknowledges the influence of Sy Leon, author of None of The Above. Sy Leon attacked the arrogant and pretentious words and phrases politicians used (what I call Slavespeak): “Mandate of the people,” “majority rule,” “democracy,” “treason” (betraying a politician), “assassination” (killing a politician, “tax” (stealing by a politician), “the draft” (slavery practiced by politicians), “war” (murder organized by politicians on a massive scale), “conspiracy” (talking with others about defending yourself against politicians), “perjury” (lying to a politician), “public good,” “public welfare,” “public duty,” “national interest,” “public service,” “public servant,” “eminent domain” (theft of property by politicians), “legal tender,” “counterfeiter” (a non-politician who prints paper currency), “society,” “domestic policy,” “foreign policy,” “cutthroat competition,” etc. Sy Leon writes about “the verbal legerdemain of politicalese” as “one of the worst frauds ever perpetrated on mankind…”

In The Virtue Of Selfishness Ayn Rand wrote: “It is not a mere semantic issue nor a matter of arbitrary choice. The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word “selfishness” is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual “package-deal” [of contradictory elements and emotional associations], which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.”

The use of one word can have vast and far-reaching consequences. Suppose I brand you as “selfish” in front of a typical audience. This probably triggers emotions in the audience, such as disgust and hatred. It probably also triggers associations, such as: “He only cares about himself”; “He’s greedy”; “He takes unfair advantage of others”; etc. The word “selfishness” constitutes a devastating package-deal.

And I suggest that most Slavespeak words (like “government,” “state,” “constitution,” “law,” “king,” “president,” etc.) are such intellect-devastating, thought-destroying package-deals – that tend to trigger automatic meanings, images, associations, emotions, attitudes, and hypnotic, stupefying inhibitions – beneficial to terrocrats and harmful to their victims.

In None of the Above Sy Leon wrote: “Politics is an intellectual anesthetic. It can dull the mind, put it to sleep, or even kill it permanently. This is not an incidental side effect; it is a calculated result that keeps the politician in business…” The effect is created through the deliberate and careful use of certain words.

“Keeping It All in Place” is Robert Ringer’s title for Chapter 8 of his Restoring The American Dream. Most of the chapter is devoted to the ARSENAL (collection of weapons) – what I call political Slavespeak – of words terrocrats use to maintain their power and keep their victims in subjugation.

Robert Ringer analyses terms such as: “government,” “society,” “country,” “taxation,” “conscription,” “loophole,” “windfall,” “inflation,” “patriotic,” “obligation,” “justice,” “fair,” “decent,” “duty,” “public morals,” “public property,” “public good,” “public interest,” “good of society,” “duty to society,” etc. Each of these terms, to the degree that it’s accepted as valid, adds to the power of terrocrats and reduces the power and freedom of their victims.

Now let’s focus our attention on one word: “government.” In None of the Above Sy Leon also wrote: “…[I]ntellectually active people do not think in a rut; they consider new ways, new alternatives; many of which may never have been attempted before. But this kind of questioning spells death for politics …[C]considering alternatives; the willingness to challenge and explore – this is what freedom and independence are all about.”

Author Kurt Vonnegut coined the word “granfalloon” to describe abstract concepts like “nation,” “state,” “country,” “government,” “society,” “IBM,” etc. He wrote, “To discover the substance of a granfalloon, just prick a hole in a toy balloon.” In his book The Incredible Secret Money Machine, Don Lancaster explains:

“A granfalloon is any large bureaucratic figment of people’s imagination. For instance, there’s really no such thing as the Feds or the General Veeblefeltzer Corporation. There are a bunch of people out there that relate to each other, and there’s some structures, and some paper. In fact, there’s lots and lots of paper. The people sit in the structures and pass paper back and forth to each other and charge you to do so.

All these people, structures, and paper are real. But nowhere can you point to the larger concept of “government” or “corporation” and say, “There it is, kiddies!” The monolithic, big “they” is all in your mind.” [emphasis added]

A granfalloon is the lumping together of many diverse elements into an abstract collection, and to then think and speak as if the abstract collection is one single entity capable of performing actions. This phenomenon leads people to say things like “the government runs the country.” I hope you realize by now just how absurd the previous Slavespeak sentence is!

Consider the possibility that because people generally consider this word/concept as valid and a given, they think, communicate, and behave in ways that have resulted in over a hundred million people slaughtered during this, the Twentieth Century. Because of political brainwashing the “citizens” believe they must “fight for their country.” When the terrocrats say, “Go kill the evil enemy,” the “loyal citizens” take up arms and proceed to slaughter each other. Would this happen on such a massive scale in the absence of Slavespeak?

Consider the possibility that in the same way that the entire “legal” industry basically rests on the concept/word “law,” the entire coercive political system basically rests on the concept/word “government.”

To begin to see why this might be so, imagine a world in which there are some would-be-terrocrats and a population of enlightened individuals who either don’t understand the word “government” or they think it’s a silly joke. (For the purpose of this thought-experiment, assume that there’s no equivalent word available to would-be-terrocrats.)

So a would-be-terrocrat says, I represent “your government” and I want you to pay me “your taxes” so I can defend your property and safety. I also want you to join “our army,” so we can go and shoot “your enemies” in the “country” next door. What success would the would-be-terrocrat have?

Realize that once the basic concept/word “government” is accepted, a whole constellation of Slavespeak concepts/words soon follow in its trail. If you accept the “government” concept, you also accept that the terrocrats who call themselves “government” have the power to “make laws,” force children into “schools” for political brainwashing, force people to pay “taxes,” force people into “armies” to kill each other, etc., etc. – what Ayn Rand calls a devastating package deal.

By accepting the basic concept/word “government,” you position the terrocrats who call themselves “government” as superior (more powerful) and you position yourself as inferior (less powerful). If you operate from this perspective, the kind of thing you tend to do to promote liberty is to beg the terrocrats to “change the law” so you can enjoy a little more freedom. You position them in power and you position yourself in weakness. You also operate in a way that, in the long run, reinforces and perpetuates the master-slave relationship between terrocrats and heir victims.

(Note: As a stopgap or makeshift measure, situations do occur where it’s not only appropriate but also vital that freedom-activists stop the terrocrats from “passing a new law,” or force them via public opinion or outcry to “amend or repeal a law.” Though such tactics tend to reinforce the underlying “government makes laws” illusion, their short-term benefits may exceed their long-term liabilities.)

Now consider the possibility that George Orwell’s term “Big Brother” is a synonym for “government.” In Nineteen-Eighty-Four Orwell wrote: “What most afflicted him with a sense of nightmare was that he had never clearly understood why the huge imposture was undertaken… he… looked at the portrait of ‘Big Brother’ …the hypnotic eyes gazed into his own. It was as if some huge force were pressing down upon you – something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses… not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense… the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… the obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended… stones are hard, water is wet…” [emphasis added]

“O’Brien left this unanswered. ‘Next question,’ he said.

‘Does Big Brother exist?’

‘Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.’

‘Does he exist in the same way as I exist?’

‘You do not exist,’ said O’Brien… [emphasis added]

‘Will Big Brother ever die?’

‘Of course not. How could he die? Next question.’”

[“Big Brother” is an Immortal Everything and you’re an Insignificant Nothing!]

In reality there are individual human beings, some with guns, generally considered (by both the brainwashed master-terrocrats and the brainwashed subject-victims?) to constitute “government”/“Big Brother.” In reality there are also buildings, lots of pieces of paper, computers, other equipment, vehicles, etc.

Can you make a distinction between what you can actually see, and what is assumption, addition (as described by William James), projection, or hallucination (“seeing” what isn’t really there)?

In Ayn Rand’s Introduction To Objectivist Epistemology she wrote: “Learning consists of grasping meanings, i.e., of grasping the referents of words, the kinds of existents that words denote in reality.” [emphasis added]

Slavespeak: The Most Fundamental Political Problem Consider three levels:

Concepts/words (including Slavespeak words); Beliefs (strings of concepts/words); Behavior.

In order to expand liberty, I think most readers will agree, we need to somehow induce people engaged in anti-liberty behavior to change their behavior.

People tend to behave in accordance with their beliefs. If this is so, then in order to persuade people to change their behavior, we have to somehow induce them to change their beliefs.

But what if their beliefs consist of strings of concepts/words? What if certain beliefs can’t change, unless the words/concepts they consist of are changed?

According to Robert Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: “But to tear down a factory or to revolt against a government or to avoid repairs of a motorcycle because it is a system is to attack effects rather than causes; and as long as the attack is upon effects only, no change is possible. The true system, the real system, is our present construction of systematic thought itself, rationality itself. And if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a systematic government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves in the succeeding government…” [emphasis added]

What if the basic “construction of systematic thought,” the basic “rationality,” consists of concepts/words? If so, then in order to induce people to change the most fundamental beliefs that really count, might it not be necessary that we persuade them to change some of their concepts/words?

I’m suggesting that the roots of political problems lie at the level of concepts/words – particularly political Slavespeak.

“Language creates spooks that get into our heads and hypnotize us.” – Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)

“It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” – Sally Kempton

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Steve Biko

If you accept the concept/word “selfishness” (as held by most people), you also accept the devastating package-deal (including beliefs) that goes with it. You cannot change certain beliefs about “selfishness,” without changing your very concept of “selfishness” The same applies to the concepts/words “law” and “government.”

Slave-Mentality I grew up in “South Africa” (so-called) and spoke Afrikaans. One Afrikaans word for native Africans was “naturel” (“native”); another was “skepsel” (“creature”). The most derogatory was “kaffer” (“infidel”). In my youth, these words were widely used. Now they’ve become unacceptable to most.

My grandfather was a politician who knew exactly what had to be done about the “Swart Gevaar” (“Black Danger”). My grandmother taught black children the three Rs and religion in her own farm school. Her mission was to “civilize the savages.” One day a black maid licked one of my grandmother’s spoons. My grandmother gave the maid a tongue lashing for “contaminating a white spoon” – then gave the spoon to the maid to keep, because it was “no longer fit for white use!”

When I was about seventeen I got engaged in a conversation with a black man. Suddenly, as if hit by a sledgehammer, I realized that I was talking to a Human Being! Up to that time I had unconsciously assumed that blacks were “inferior creatures” – kind of sub-human.

Steve Biko was the founder of the “Black Consciousness” movement in “South Africa” (so-called). Biko recognized that the biggest problem was that blacks in their own consciousness regarded themselves as “inferior creatures.” The culture we grew up in – the language we used – planted the notion in the minds of whites that they were “superior beings” (compared to blacks), and in the minds of blacks that they were “inferior creatures” (compared to whites). Practically all whites and blacks were subconsciously enculturated in this manner. Biko recognized this phenomenon and advocated that blacks had to free their consciousness from the “inferior-creature” shackles. Biko became world-famous and was visited by people like Bobby Kennedy. Biko was also the greatest threat to white terrocrats in “South Africa” (so-called). The police effectively murdered him. At the time the murder was “whitewashed.”

Steve Biko’s identification of the slave-mentality of many blacks was a major inspiration in the development of my own consciousness of different levels of slave mentality. Later in Brussels, I came across The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Fear of Independence by Collette Dowling. Her theme is that in their consciousness women tend to regard themselves as “inferior slave creatures” (compared to men). This inferiority is mostly subconscious and culturally imposed. According to Dowling, men tend to regard themselves as “superior master beings” (compared to women).

I also met a teacher at the American School in Brussels. As a result of discussing politics and education with her, I came up with the term “cattle- mentality.” Subconsciously this teacher regarded herself as a “cow” owned by “big-daddy-government,” who had a right to milk her, to build fences to confine her, to tell her what she was allowed to eat and what not. Like a cattle herder, “big-daddy-government” also had a duty to look after her and feed her. And it was her duty to “educate” the “calves” under her care with the “cattle mentality.” Of course, her “calves” had to be forced into “schools” to be taught what “big-daddy-government” dictated.

In America today, we see on TV and read in the papers daily, of business leaders begging “big-daddy-government” for protection against big-bad-wolf unfair foreign competition, or “big-daddy government” must do this or that to help us poor helpless little inferior creatures.

There is a common denominator here:

Blacks tend to suffer from a black-slave-mentality in relation to whites;

Women tend to suffer from a female-slave-mentality in relation to men;

Children tend to suffer from an ignorant-slave-mentality in relation to parents and teachers;

Humans in general tend to suffer from a helple