To: BlackDog777 who wrote (9916 ) 2/14/2005 3:27:17 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Respond to of 20039 Re: If our government was a fraction as bad as your frequent depictions...you'd be long gone by now. LOL... That's PALEOfascism: a brutal, coercive regime that relies on physical brutalities to compel obedience (Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet, Jim Crow, etc.). America's peculiar brand of fascism relies on "soft persuasion". However, in some cases, the US government might resort to the "old method" --clue:Message 20985336 All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Technocracy and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived. Physical rebellion, or any preliminary move towards rebellion, is at present not possible. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect. In a Technocracy member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated. A Technocracy member lives from birth to death under the eye of the StraighThought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone. Wherever he may be, asleep or awake, working or resting, in his bath or in bed, he can be suspected without warning and without knowing that he is being suspected. Nothing that he does is indifferent. His friendships, his relaxations, his behaviour towards his wife and children, the expression of his face when he is alone, the words he mutters in sleep, even the characteristic movements of his body, are all jealously pondered. [...]Subject 33609