The System’s Neatest Trick - Ted Kaczynski

Created: 2021-08-12T08:19:56-05:00

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Mainstream media is essentially the approved opinion toward society of the elite.
The system seeks equality not because it cares, but because the fighting reduces its ability to exploit producitivty from the populace.
Crimes happen and are covered up but are not ideals of the system
People feel a need to rebel but do not know what to target; the system provides a list of approved topics to rebel against
Feminism supported to make women profitable, but further ideals discarded and suppressed. Fringe ideology is only acceptable to the point it helps the powerful.
Rebels are allowed as long as their target is something the system wants rid of, or something which is meaningless. Preferably rebels are clueless and unable to think for themselves so they avoid doing any real damage.

Integration propaganda: internalizing fear, instilling the need for the self to adapt itself to what the system needs
Agitative propaganda: eliciting reactions from people, laundering consent to move overton window for integrative propaganda
The conflict of propaganda schools leads to imperfect control over the population.

The System's goal is not brutality or the expression of anger. As far as police work is concerned, the System's goal is to compel obedience to its rules and to do so with the least possible amount of disruption, violence, and bad publicity. Thus, from the System's point of view, the ideal cop is one who never gets angry, never uses any more violence than necessary, and as far as possible relies on manipulation rather than force to keep people under control. Police brutality is only another disease of the System, not part of the System.