Another great article but maybe it's an octagon not a pentagon.
#6 EDUCATING AGAINST THINKING
- controlling schooling so it's homogenized pro-empire, psychologically parochial, training citizens to be good selfish anodyne consumers, crushing real curiosity replacing it with obsessive compulsive ephemera, stigmatize wrongthink (like socialism, dissent, disloyalyy) early and often so the individual's reaction when triggered is felt, never reasoned out
#7 EMBEDDING THE WE
- groupthink is best when it's unconscious. unconscious means path of least resistance. path of least resistance means feeling natural, objectively correct, in the right, included. self and national identity blended into "we" by mythologizing the past while obfuscating real history, conditioning pride in empire and personal 'felt' association with its outcomes
#8 INSTILL LOVE/NEED FOR A CARCERAL LIFE
- empire wants the citizen productive, exploited, responsive to direction, committed to internalized small scale ambition, terrified of unknowns and uncertainties, naive and rooted by faith in the goodness of the homeland. turn fear of authority into love of authority, faith in authority, unconscious ties to place and prescription. All that kind of lasagne...
Another great article but maybe it's an octagon not a pentagon.
#6 EDUCATING AGAINST THINKING
- controlling schooling so it's homogenized pro-empire, psychologically parochial, training citizens to be good selfish anodyne consumers, crushing real curiosity replacing it with obsessive compulsive ephemera, stigmatize wrongthink (like socialism, dissent, disloyalyy) early and often so the individual's reaction when triggered is felt, never reasoned out
#7 EMBEDDING THE WE
- groupthink is best when it's unconscious. unconscious means path of least resistance. path of least resistance means feeling natural, objectively correct, in the right, included. self and national identity blended into "we" by mythologizing the past while obfuscating real history, conditioning pride in empire and personal 'felt' association with its outcomes
#8 INSTILL LOVE/NEED FOR A CARCERAL LIFE
- empire wants the citizen productive, exploited, responsive to direction, committed to internalized small scale ambition, terrified of unknowns and uncertainties, naive and rooted by faith in the goodness of the homeland. turn fear of authority into love of authority, faith in authority, unconscious ties to place and prescription. All that kind of lasagne...