There is a fundamental question that haunts the pages of history,
and it is one that has never been addressed in a satisfactory
manner. There are many schools of thought on why and how tyranny rises
in any given society and all of them miss the mark in terms of
explanations, primarily because they all allow their biases to rule
their conclusions and blind them to the deeper aspects of power and
conspiracy. In other words, they are willing to go down the rabbit hole
only so far, and then they deny that the rabbit hole even exists.
The common assumption when it comes to autocracy or oligarchy is
that people are "stupid" and easily manipulated into following
compelling personalities that make promises they never intend to keep.
This is a foolish oversimplification of reality. In truth, the level of
manipulation needed to lure a majority of people into dictatorship is so
complex that it requires an advanced understanding of human psychology.
In our modern era, people cannot merely be ordered to submit at
gunpoint, at least not right away. They must be tricked into
conforming, and not only that, they must be made to think that it was their idea
all along. Without this dynamic of self-censorship and
self-enslavement, the population will eventually rebel no matter how
oppressive the regime. A thousand-year tyranny cannot exist unless the
people are conned into supporting it.
And this is where we find the true key to totalitarianism. It only
thrives because there is an inherent portion of any given society that
secretly loves it and wants it to exist. We might call these people
useful idiots, but it is more than that. They are not completely unaware
of what they are doing; they understand to some extent that they are
helping in the destruction of other people's freedoms, and they revel in
it. Sure, there are elitists and globalists that levy root conspiracies
and seek out more and more control, but they could not accomplish much
of anything without the aid of an army of sociopathic aberrations that
live among us.
This strange and destructive characteristic is ever visible today
in light of the COVID lockdowns and the push for forced vaccinations. It
is clear that there are some people out there that are overly concerned
with the personal health decisions of everyone else. They have become a
cult that ignores all science and logic and demands fealty to their
fraudulent narrative. They do not care about the facts, they only care
that we comply.
Well, as I have said time and time again: We Will Not Comply!
And so begins the epic conflict; a tale as old as civilization
itself. There are two types of people in this world: Those that want to
control others, and those that want to be left alone. But what
motivates the control freaks? Why are they the way they are? Let’s
examine some of the causes...
The fear engine
There are people that are driven by success, by merit, by hope, by
prosperity, by faith, by optimism, by love and by honor. And then, there
are people driven by fear. There are hundreds of various fears, but
only a few ways to react to any of them. Infiltrators respond to fear
with a desperate need to micromanage their environment; they believe
that if they can dictate people and events to a certain degree, they can
eliminate unexpected outcomes and be free of fear. But life does not
work this way and it never will.
The level of influence these people seek is so far beyond them that
it can never be attained. That is to say, they will never be satisfied
until they get more. Their fears will always haunt them because fears
cannot be dealt with from without, they can only be dealt with from
within.
Furthermore, the things they fear often revolve around their own
narcissism and are of their own making. They fear failure, but they
rarely work hard enough to succeed. They fear exposure, but only because
they constantly lie. They fear conflict, but only because they are weak
in body and character. They fear death because they believe in nothing
greater than themselves. They clamor for dominance of their surroundings
because they wrongly believe that they can cheat fate and the
consequences of their own terrible choices.
The safety of the mob
The issue of fear extends into the common mindset of the
totalitarian and how they find safety. The idea of standing on their own
two feet and standing by their principles in the face of opposition is
completely foreign to them. They avoid these situations at any cost and
the notion of risk is abhorrent to them. So, they instead look for a mob
to blend into. This makes them feel safe in obscurity while also
wielding force through collectivist action. They can feel powerful while
at the same time being pitiful and weak.
These people almost always operate through large single-minded
groups that punish any dissension in the ranks, usually with gatekeepers
that moderate the motivations of the hive.
The mob itself is a weapon, its only purpose beyond the comfort of
its adherents is to destroy those people that do not hold the same
beliefs or values as the controllers. There is no defensive purpose to
the mob; it is an assassin's tool; it is a nuclear bomb. And, as we have
seen in every modern dictatorship from the Bolsheviks in Russia to the
Fascists in Germany to the communists in Mao's China, the totalitarian
mob is capable of murdering more people than any nuclear weapon in
existence, all in the name of "the greater good of the greater number."
False piety in place of self-worth
All tyrants believe themselves to be righteous in their cause, even
when they know that their actions are morally abhorrent. I have seen
this dynamic on bold display during the COVID mandates and the vaccine
passports initiatives. Consider for a moment that 99.7 percent of the
population is under no legitimate threat from the COVID virus; they will
not die from it, and in the vast majority of cases they will recover
quickly from it. Yet the COVID cult consistently argues that people who
refuse the mandates, the lockdowns and the vaccines are putting others
at risk, which is why we need to be "forced" to submit.
Most of them know according to the data that COVID is not a threat,
but the narrative gives them an opportunity to apply power through
"moral judgment," and so they lie, and they continue to lie about the
data until they think the lie will be accepted as reality. This is a
common aspect of most cults and of fundamentalist religions that have
gone astray. The habit of adherents to value lies over facts and
evidence not because they are trying to protect their faith, but because
it affords them the chance to feel pious and superior to everyone else.
Those who disagree are labeled heretics, the lowest of the low, the
unwashed terrorists. The anti-mandate crowd is thus stripped of its
humanity and is painted as demonic. The people who want to remain free
become monsters, and the totalitarian monsters become heroes out to save
the world. As the author Robert Anton Wilson once said:
"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly."
The love of a cage
I feel as though I understand this philosophy to an extent, but it
never fails to shock me the way in which people who scratch and scrape
for power over others also seem to love being slaves to the system. I'm
not so sure that it is ironic, as authoritarianism does fulfill some of
its promises of "security" as long as the people involved are willing to
trade away any impulses of liberty. If you do as your told at all times
and serve the system without fail, then there is a good chance you will
be able to hold on to the meager necessities of survival. You will live
a life, though probably not a happy one.
For those that go above and beyond and cast aside all personal
principle in order to further the goals of the system, they might even
enjoy a modicum of wealth beyond their peers. You see, in a despotic
society, the people who are most without honor are the people that get
ahead. They don't need merit, or accomplishment or skills or even
brains; all they have to do is sell their souls and do whatever it takes
to catch the eye of the oligarchy. They don't have to be good at
anything, all they have to do is be evil and for some people that's
easy.
In this way, the system becomes a comfortable blanket that people
can be swaddled in. They wrap themselves in it and luxuriate in its
warmth. They are not concerned with freedom because freedom feels cold
to them. Freedom can be isolating, and the existence of choice is
terrifying. When all your choices are made for you, there is never any
doubt or internal stress. All that is required is that you wake up each
day and obey.
For weak and ignorant people, subservience is a gift instead of a
curse. They believe that a cage is meant to be gilded, not escaped from,
and anyone that seeks escape must be crazy or dangerous. If free people
exist then the slaves are forced to question their own condition and
their own compliance, so everyone must be enslaved to remove any and all
doubt from society. The hive mind is placed above all else.
The defiant and free
The little tyrants that infiltrate humanity probably look at
liberty advocates as some kind of alien creatures from far beyond the
bounds of their universe. They just can't fathom how it is possible for
someone to defy the system, to stand against the mob or the collective,
even when they are outnumbered or when the risk is so high. They assume
that it is a form of madness or a lack of intelligence; for how could
anyone smart think they have a chance of fighting back against the
dictatorship?
Liberty people are individualists by nature, but we also care about
the freedoms of others. There is a common propaganda argument that
individualists are "selfish," but this is not the case at all. It is not
enough for us alone to escape slavery; we will not stand by and watch
others be forced into bondage either. We are willing to sacrifice our
lives not just to save ourselves but to save future generations from
autocracy.
As the vaccine passports and mandates continue to escalate the
totalitarians will find themselves even more bewildered, because each
new mechanism of control will result in even greater impetus for
rebellion, and frankly at this point, it is going to be us, or them.
They will not stop their pursuit of dominion and we will not comply, so
we are at an impasse. Our two tribes cannot coexist on the same
continent, maybe not even the same planet.
The truth is that if voluntarism was a valued ideal then this whole
fight could be avoided. If the collectivist cult was willing to accept
the notion that they can choose to live in a highly micromanaged
environment while others can choose to live independently, then there
would be no conflict. We could easily go our separate ways. But this is
not how totalitarians think: To them, all people are chattel, we are
property to be staked down and reeducated until we see the light. And if
we don't see the light, we are to be done away with and erased.
This is why they are utterly to blame for the war that is coming.
They cannot stop themselves from grasping for our throats and our minds.
They are addicted to supremacy. They are living in a fever dream and
the only drug that cools their veins is total oppression of everyone
around them. I see what is coming next and it is not pretty for either
side, but it will be especially gruesome for the collectivists because
they cannot imagine a scenario in which they lose. They are so certain
of their preeminence and the safety of their self-imposed prisons that
they will see failure as a phantom, a ghost that cannot touch them. They
will implode when they find out otherwise.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
