Here are the methods with which you
keep the public at bay
developed most specifically for
the 21st century.
First you must surround them
with an infinite array of accessible distractions
all pleasurable in nature
all seducing them from action.
This will slow them down
and act as their opiate
One fire to kill them down
but hold on, there's a plethora more fires to be lit.
You must fit
for the people-each of them
a grand fantasy
high above
gold and shiny.
It must be far enough that it's not graspable, unattainable
yet close enough in reach
to where it can be touched, seeming possible
Give this to them and they'll lurch perpetually towards it for the rest of their lives.
However, if to our dismay and disarray
they figure these dreams silly before the end of the day
of their lives
you must have an immediate replacement
to ship in
that fits in the same compartment
in which the first dream resided.
You must do this to yield perpetual excitement
and unending devotion to what they think their goals require.
That could be the products or programs we allow them to acquire
off which we become rich.
Let's now ditch
the generalities of our project
and move onto
the particularities of our endeavor.
Our chief end is not in
reality, but rather strictly in images.
The hope that comes in the attachment
people latch onto their dreams
must supersede the dreams themselves.
And dependence to these dreams must never wean
unless they be promptly replaced.
So now that we're faced
with the two grand pillars:
arbitrary hope and the dependence that comes there on
and the distraction to which they cling on
let us now examine
the main tenets which now are to remain:
There's fear and division
and values established firmly, immune to revision
yet only in the public image
(the words of ministers, politicians and leaders)
as we instill a backdrop of complete chaos
hypocrisy, values lost
(This through their entertainment and the incessant
funneling of scandal and betrayal into their mental feed.)
that protrudes into the subconscious of the people
haunting them daily with booming nihilism
thence making them cling even tighter to their particular -isms
thus rendering even more division.
For division is what we fear
Given that we endear
them when they allow us to be in control.
For when they live and love one another
they can live and love without us.
Yet when they fight and cheat and starve each other
in us they trust.
Thus we must
enforce strictly this code of propaganda
of hope in abstract and unreal things
of perpetual distraction
of continual dissatisfaction
with their institutions.
for which we must seem to provide restitution
with one after another rebel brash and brave
trying to overthrow the corruption
secretly the same.
We must keep people isolated
in their groups one and each
making it appear that the others desire intently to hurt them
their whole ways of life besieged.
Yes, we must never do any of this in force
This all the people's own choices
done with none whatsoever remorse.
They must love their servitude.
We must make them addicted
to the continual consumption of dissatisfaction and hate
lurching without end at objectives so great
in nothing but utter vain
as they go about their ways
giving and giving to us until the very end.
With this message, thee I send
to make the world your own
the people I lend
For the people become what they see and hear
Just equate what they hate with what they endear
And their hate will last longer
And our control will grow stronger
I now charge you with the propagandist's manifesto
Take it and implement it. Presto!
For it must come fast and perpetually; wash any original thought down the sink.
For don't you dare...
Don't ever!
allow any of them to think.
