"Quiet, order
and safety"
The possibilities
of overthrowing the system are minimal.
The traditional
ways, which we know from history, no longer exist.
There are no
external forces.
We have a unique system
that has prevailed worldwide.
The internal
forces which could lead to a change
(social forces,
revolution)
are negligible.
The world is
clearly divided into two parts.
The hungry and the
well fed.
Most of them are
hungry
and therefore unhappy.
The others live in
excessive luxury,
they have become so fat
that they
must run to the
slimming institutes,
and are so anxious to
maintain and
increase their material
wealth,
that they are unhappy
too.
From
the hungry no threat
can
come.
Hunger, disease,
misery, and above all
the complete inability
to understand and
use modern technology
make
them completely
harmless.
In the mutant
environment that we have created
they are not even able
to survive without our help.
They are reduced
to a kind of pet,
like the dog whose
existence depends
on the bone we throw
him.
Neither
should we be
afraid
of the well-fed.
They are
constantly busy.
They use every
second of their lives
chasing after money and
the passive
enjoyment of the
comforts that it offers.
Soon,
their concern with finding a job and
pleasing
their boss will be so great that they
no
longer have time for anything else.
Deprived of any
real education,
with an untrained and
lethargic mind,
they are unable to
react and they are increasingly
immersed in the trash
of the subculture
which the media
constantly offers them.
So in order to
keep them unparticipating and apathetic,
we don't even need to
apply the drugs with which,
we generously provide
them, but chiefly for our
love of profit.
They are lulled
into believing that they are free
and can decide about
their system of government.
We have convinced
them to call this system democracy,
although it is in fact,
the absolute dictatorship
of money and the press.
Some totally
harmless voices of objection
with absolutely limited
local scope are tolerated.
Either because
they offer a harmless distraction,
or because they serve
as proof of the
alleged existence of
freedom.
Now with the
layoffs to come,
we have studied the
possibility that
something goes wrong in
every detail.
First of all, the
layoffs will not take place all together in one night.
They are to come
gradually.
Today, one company
closes a factory, tomorrow another
dismisses 5,000
workers, the next day a third 20,000.
And to make it even
more "palatable"
we let the media
announce in advance:
― "50,000
are threatened with dismissal".
When finally
30,000 are fired,
as had been
pre-decided,
then they will say:
― "Triumph,
thanks to our efforts
and the generosity of Big
Brother,
20,000 jobs have been
saved!".
It is not to our
advantage when crowds of
unemployed suddenly
appear everywhere.
If they all find
themselves unemployed suddenly,
they could organize
themselves and cause us trouble.
"Suddenly",
this is what can hurt.
If you dismiss
them one by one,
they are completely
harmless.
The longer the
period of unemployment
the more humble and
obedient they are.
Take a look around
you.
Do we have only a
few unemployed today?
Do you get the
impression that they were ready to start riots?
On the contrary,
they are totally docile and willing to serve anyone.
They don't want to
get organized.
Their only concern
is to find some job,
regardless what, get a
piece of dry bread, and
they will gratefully kiss
the hand that gives it.