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To: Machaon who wrote (12232)	3/5/2002 4:56:14 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

A Technocracy member is required to have not only the right opinions, but the right instincts. Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Laissezfaire. If he is a person naturally orthodox (in Doubletalk a goodthinker), he will in all circumstances know, without taking thought, what is the true belief or the desirable emotion. But in any case an elaborate mental training, undergone in childhood and grouping itself round the Doubletalk words crimestop, blackwhite, and doublethink, makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatever. A Technocracy member is expected to have no private opinions and no respites from enthusiasm. He is supposed to live in a continuous frenzy of hatred of foreign enemies and internal traitors, triumph over victories, and selfabasement before the power and wisdom of the Technocracy. The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Bin Laden Hate, and the speculations which might possibly induce a sceptical or rebellious attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline. [...] For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be for ever averted --if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently-- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity. ______________________ Excerpted from: Subject 33609