3. Moral Monster 
A.
An argument outside of the modernistic sphere of ‘compulsory health protection’, which is used to justify forcing me into a situation of simultaneously giving the government money in taxes, and get harassment and fear in return, is an older, more ancient type of argument - that drug abusers are moral monsters. Those who take drugs are immoral, they have no sense of good or bad, allowed and forbidden, and that means that they are not civilized. They are unpredictable barbarians who must be locked away, if society is to survive.
But what is it that the decent folks fear? What is the image of the ‘death of society’, which would appear, if I am not jailed? Death? Violence? Pain? Fear? They are all here, they are present already, and have existed for centuries, since the beginning of recorded history. There are murderers; rapists; thieves and robbers; there are brutal wars; there are sadistic fathers and sadistic mothers and sadistic children; and there is blood lust which takes over the minds of riot police and makes them beat helpless people. None of the above can in any way be the result of me and my friends smoking pot, or tripping on acid, or even that guy in the park shooting up what he fondly believes to be heroin.
To say that I am one of the millions who sponsor the ‘mafia’ by buying illegal drugs, and thus indirectly cause harm, is to repeat drooling self-righteous hysterics, who base crude logic on false assumptions. I buy illegal drugs because they are not legal. If they were legal I would be buying legal drugs and I would not mind at all sponsoring the state instead of the ‘mafia’ – but I do not have this choice – because of the state. And even if I am indirectly responsible for keeping some mob boss satisfied – since when is such indirect responsibility to be punished by prison? What, like I should be jailed or put into a hospital if I buy fruits without demanding to see documents concerning the working conditions of those who picked it, and the tax paid by those who employed them? Of those who made the t-shirt I am wearing and those who distributed it? If it were a free market I would be able to choose to whom to give my money – but it’s an illegal market, because of the state, so I pay to whoever offers. I don’t wish it to be so – I would much rather prefer to have choice as a consumer. So to first take away the possibility for legal buying of the drugs I use – and then jail me for ‘sponsoring organized crime’ is not only self-contradictory – its as hypocritical as it gets.
Another issue in the matter of the moral monster phenomenon, is that the ‘moral values’, enforced at least on the level of talking by the decent folks, are:
a) not dominant in today’s society. They only pretend that life works according to their ‘moral values’ – it doesn’t. And anyway, they are the first to lie, bribe and slobber over a relative’s child on their lap.
b) these moral values never were dominant., never were really followed. Every generation has a ‘golden age’ in the past when everything was alright, but today everything is wrong. Sad, sad, crazy, crazy monkeys.
When adults try to program children to live by certain rules, they are not telling the children all the facts. Rather, the adults construct a controlled information cocoon around the child, a micro universe, which follows not the rules observable in the every day, adult world, but ‘special good rules’ which exist in the shallow imagination of the adult. The adult follows the delusion, that if he/she lies and confuses and threatens the child enough, if the right method to achieve this is found – then somehow the resulting mixture of mental and emotional crap is the ‘good child’, which will surely grow up into a ‘good person’. Because the adult also maintains a controlled information cocoon around himself as well, to protect his/her miserable attempts at personality from disillusionment, and if the child does not accept such a cocoon, this places in danger the adult’s cocoon. The child must be threatened and cajoled into the lie of the adult, because the lie of the adult depends upon people believing in it.
When the next generation is programmed it is always programmed in the ‘good things’ of the current reality, while the ‘bad things’ are treated as not really existing. The child learns to lie to itself and perceive consciously only the reality insisted upon by the adults, turning itself into one of them. A mess of fear, pain, confusion, desperately attempting to identify itself with its projected role. Desperately to try to be the mask it wears, refusing to accept what is behind it, refusing to accept that such a difference even exists. And whatever was in the beginning behind the mask withers away as the years pass, it rots into dust, ignored by the person, until what is left behind the mask is only foul darkness. Any wonder that no one is prepared to admit there is something behind the mask?
Thus it is a futile, doomed for inescapable psychological reasons, attempt of every dominant generation, to try to re-create through the next generation a world which would be just like the current one, but without the ‘bad stuff’. Decade after decade, a flood of ‘good programming’ information is directed in inadequate manners by mentally and emotionally sick monkeys, at those who must be programmed, and decade after decade there is angered disbelief of the programmers, that the world just does not correspond to their hypocritical guilt-ridden collective dream. It must be, of course, the fault of those, who do not act in the game of pretence, but live by a different logic, in a different reality.
B.
From an ‘information flow’ point of view, society is shaped by:
a) Consciously directed information, with the intent of programming the population to follow a certain set of values, norms and other fictions. Such programming bursts of ‘shape-giving’, ‘simple reality constructing’ information, are produced by the state, the church, the local ‘organization for morality and fatherland’ and in short any institutionalized group of people, who see their calling as being the inheritors, shapers, the controllers of true reality.
b) The independent flows of information, and the random combinations of different competing realities, which create unpredictable ideas and worlds.
Although I personally seem to prefer the ‘random’ information structure, I do not go as far as to say, that the ‘structured’, information is unneeded – I am writing some right now, am I not? I can not imagine a world of ‘random’ information only. But it is exactly through the interplay between ‘random’ and ‘structured’ information, between ‘random’ and ‘structured’ realities, that civilization is being kept alive, is given youth. If the ‘random’ side of the information flow is repressed, there follows a brief glory of a ‘structured’ world, before its inevitable, bloody, horrific death.
As happened to the European civilization in the first half of the 20th century, and the most extreme example of this process – Nazi Germany. Even if it succeeds in existing for more then 20 years without exploding, the ‘ultra-structured’ world of controlled information flows is maintained on one hand by the officials turning a blind eye on the black market which prevents the economy from collapse, and on the other - by a constant parallel underworld of threats, kidnappings, tortures and executions – like in the USSR and many dead and contemporary societies, where only happy, positive stuff is allowed to be shown on the surface.
It absolutely must be remembered, that it’s highly disciplined people, with clear moral values, and inbred loyalty and self-sacrifice, who conducted many of the horrors of the Second World War. ‘Disciplined’, ‘moral’, ‘loyal’ – this is a description of the Nazis. I’ve met in many books a question baffling the authors: how was it possible for the best educated and most disciplined people in Europe – the Germans[1] - to behave like such monsters? I find nothing strange in this. The German system of programming the population was the most efficient one, it created the best possible robots, and they did what they were told to do. No mystery here. That is what you get, if the only reality available is the official state one. Another type of disciplined, courageous, loyal and conservatively moral people is the one consisting of individuals who blow themselves up on bus stops.
A main reason for the reaction of the decent folks against other realities, is that the very fact of existence of another set of values, automatically makes their decent official reality ‘relative’ as in ‘not the supreme and only official reality’. Having the possibility of choice between different truths makes robots very very nervous and prone to unpredictable acts of violence.
There always have been monsters among humans, who behave in horrific fashion – who rape their children, beat their partners, kill for pleasure, humiliate weaker people, etc.. These monsters existed before the war on drugs was invented, they will exist long after the war on drugs has been forgotten. The existence of these monsters is made possible by, among other things, the endlessly perpetuated hypocritical world of a ‘pretend reality’, and the unspoken ‘dark’ sides. Below the official reality of the decent folks is bubbling a dark counterweight abyss, full of forbidden pleasures and horrific nightmares. What the decent folks don’t realize, is that the dark abyss within them exists only because they keep up a pretend reality by constantly lying to themselves. It’s a mental compensating mechanism. Stop lying to yourself, examine honestly what you are, and you no longer will have to exercise all available mental energy to suppress ‘the animal below’, because there is no ‘animal below’, without ‘the hypocrite above’. This is the difference between a mental ‘free market’, and a mental ‘state plan economy’, compensated by a mental black market.
When free market is replaced by state and corporate monopoly, there automatically appears a cruel and primitive black market, to compensate the obvious untruths and therefore inefficiencies of the structured monopoly. There is in such a society on one side an endless official war against the black market, and on the other – everyone gets things really done the black market way.
Inevitably, in any society of more than one type of human psyches, there are overlapping realities, but there must be a liberal market of competing realities, if we are to avoid the cruel primitivism of the black market and the sophisticated sadism of the state officials. This goes for society in general, it also goes for the individual’s mind – if you hide from yourself the ‘bad stuff’ and only see the ‘good stuff’, very quickly hysteria or schizophrenia sets in – as it has indeed set in, in mild, medium, and intense form, in almost everyone. Similar rules I believe apply both to the information management of the individual mind, and of society in general, as society (being a set of beliefs, values, truths and taboos) exist only in the minds of the individuals which inhabit it, and is therefore a projection of the dominant structure of the psyche.
So on one hand, our psyches are programmed by society, on the other – society exists only within our minds. On one hand I am shaped by external forces, on the other – there’s nothing out there. Well – there are other beings like me, who keep communicating between each other patterns of information, which they believe to be the existing reality around them, a belief for which most are prepared to kill and some – to die. They’d rather kill, they’d rather die, then admit that they are ill liars. Proving, of course, that they indeed are very ill liars.
C.
Talking of projections - Civilization is on the brink of collapse not because the structured efforts of the state and decent folks are unable to create their perfect world. Civilization is on the brink, because they – the inhabitants of the dominant dreams - are succeeding far too well, following their own lies to the disasters to which they lead them, with increasingly more effective technologies to translate these inevitable disasters into global mayhem.
When the movements against opium appeared in Great Britain in the 19th century, it being an ‘immoral’ drug, the people fighting the use of opium would say: ‘look what’s happening in China! You get addicts who sell their wives and children just to be able to buy the drug.’ Oooh, my, what an evil drug, tsk, tsk. Well how come a modern junkie in Detroit or Paris doesn’t sell his wife and kids? Its not opium which made 19th century Chinese society into a place where the wife and children are seen as products which can be bought and sold! A fucked up society is fucked up with or without opium. And it’s not smoking cigarettes, which transforms old Cambodian peasants into skeletons, whatever the educational films on TV may say. And it’s not heroin that makes modern Russia what it is today. Or perhaps it was vodka that was responsible for the appearance of the USSR, and beer for the appearance of the Third Reich? And marijuana smoking is responsible for the bloody civil wars in Africa? It is not alcohol or drugs which makes possible the miseries of this world, its just that we allow ourselves to admit to the existence of these miseries only when connected to someone we can despise or pity. Which just shows how pathetic we are.
The current obsession with childhood sexuality, resulting in ‘pedophile tourism’, and child pornography being the dark secret of our synthetic clean society, is the direct result of the hysterical attempts of the mechanized corpses to ensure ‘control’ over themselves and others through lies and emotional violence. They lead a life of evasions, denials, emotional games of domination and humiliation. Refusing to accept that their life and their mask are not the same thing, that they are full of suppressed fear and pain, by ignoring them, they let the fear and pain to secretly take life over, and shape all activities and feelings. Forever wondering “Did anyone see? Did anyone see behind my mask?” And congratulating themselves “No one saw! No one saw behind my mask!”, and then lying to themselves “No mask! No mask exists! This is all that I am – nothing else! Nothing else!”
They see children, with their innocent perceptions and naïve emotions, and they feel strange. They are jealous of the children. But instead of asking themselves ‘why am I not like that any longer? Can I ever do something to be like that for at least five minutes?’ they try neurotically to infect themselves with the innocence of children by physical contact, in the process destroying what they do not have but desperately want. And after a while, they get twisted pleasure just from the fact of destroying a soul, or of getting satisfaction of going through pathetic rituals with soul already destroyed before. And this is not that strange – for what else can a soul which is destroyed itself, desire?
What will happen, if in spite of its inefficiency and absurdities, the machine of the official reality suddenly succeeds in all fields? When the last visible ‘drug abuser’, ‘pervert’, ‘nut case’ and ‘delinquent’ are jailed or hospitalized, there will follow half a decade of forced happy smiling and collective building, before the internal pressures of the primitive robot’s psyche blow the world into smithereens once again.
A.
An argument outside of the modernistic sphere of ‘compulsory health protection’, which is used to justify forcing me into a situation of simultaneously giving the government money in taxes, and get harassment and fear in return, is an older, more ancient type of argument - that drug abusers are moral monsters. Those who take drugs are immoral, they have no sense of good or bad, allowed and forbidden, and that means that they are not civilized. They are unpredictable barbarians who must be locked away, if society is to survive.
But what is it that the decent folks fear? What is the image of the ‘death of society’, which would appear, if I am not jailed? Death? Violence? Pain? Fear? They are all here, they are present already, and have existed for centuries, since the beginning of recorded history. There are murderers; rapists; thieves and robbers; there are brutal wars; there are sadistic fathers and sadistic mothers and sadistic children; and there is blood lust which takes over the minds of riot police and makes them beat helpless people. None of the above can in any way be the result of me and my friends smoking pot, or tripping on acid, or even that guy in the park shooting up what he fondly believes to be heroin.
To say that I am one of the millions who sponsor the ‘mafia’ by buying illegal drugs, and thus indirectly cause harm, is to repeat drooling self-righteous hysterics, who base crude logic on false assumptions. I buy illegal drugs because they are not legal. If they were legal I would be buying legal drugs and I would not mind at all sponsoring the state instead of the ‘mafia’ – but I do not have this choice – because of the state. And even if I am indirectly responsible for keeping some mob boss satisfied – since when is such indirect responsibility to be punished by prison? What, like I should be jailed or put into a hospital if I buy fruits without demanding to see documents concerning the working conditions of those who picked it, and the tax paid by those who employed them? Of those who made the t-shirt I am wearing and those who distributed it? If it were a free market I would be able to choose to whom to give my money – but it’s an illegal market, because of the state, so I pay to whoever offers. I don’t wish it to be so – I would much rather prefer to have choice as a consumer. So to first take away the possibility for legal buying of the drugs I use – and then jail me for ‘sponsoring organized crime’ is not only self-contradictory – its as hypocritical as it gets.
Another issue in the matter of the moral monster phenomenon, is that the ‘moral values’, enforced at least on the level of talking by the decent folks, are:
a) not dominant in today’s society. They only pretend that life works according to their ‘moral values’ – it doesn’t. And anyway, they are the first to lie, bribe and slobber over a relative’s child on their lap.
b) these moral values never were dominant., never were really followed. Every generation has a ‘golden age’ in the past when everything was alright, but today everything is wrong. Sad, sad, crazy, crazy monkeys.
When adults try to program children to live by certain rules, they are not telling the children all the facts. Rather, the adults construct a controlled information cocoon around the child, a micro universe, which follows not the rules observable in the every day, adult world, but ‘special good rules’ which exist in the shallow imagination of the adult. The adult follows the delusion, that if he/she lies and confuses and threatens the child enough, if the right method to achieve this is found – then somehow the resulting mixture of mental and emotional crap is the ‘good child’, which will surely grow up into a ‘good person’. Because the adult also maintains a controlled information cocoon around himself as well, to protect his/her miserable attempts at personality from disillusionment, and if the child does not accept such a cocoon, this places in danger the adult’s cocoon. The child must be threatened and cajoled into the lie of the adult, because the lie of the adult depends upon people believing in it.
When the next generation is programmed it is always programmed in the ‘good things’ of the current reality, while the ‘bad things’ are treated as not really existing. The child learns to lie to itself and perceive consciously only the reality insisted upon by the adults, turning itself into one of them. A mess of fear, pain, confusion, desperately attempting to identify itself with its projected role. Desperately to try to be the mask it wears, refusing to accept what is behind it, refusing to accept that such a difference even exists. And whatever was in the beginning behind the mask withers away as the years pass, it rots into dust, ignored by the person, until what is left behind the mask is only foul darkness. Any wonder that no one is prepared to admit there is something behind the mask?
Thus it is a futile, doomed for inescapable psychological reasons, attempt of every dominant generation, to try to re-create through the next generation a world which would be just like the current one, but without the ‘bad stuff’. Decade after decade, a flood of ‘good programming’ information is directed in inadequate manners by mentally and emotionally sick monkeys, at those who must be programmed, and decade after decade there is angered disbelief of the programmers, that the world just does not correspond to their hypocritical guilt-ridden collective dream. It must be, of course, the fault of those, who do not act in the game of pretence, but live by a different logic, in a different reality.
B.
From an ‘information flow’ point of view, society is shaped by:
a) Consciously directed information, with the intent of programming the population to follow a certain set of values, norms and other fictions. Such programming bursts of ‘shape-giving’, ‘simple reality constructing’ information, are produced by the state, the church, the local ‘organization for morality and fatherland’ and in short any institutionalized group of people, who see their calling as being the inheritors, shapers, the controllers of true reality.
b) The independent flows of information, and the random combinations of different competing realities, which create unpredictable ideas and worlds.
Although I personally seem to prefer the ‘random’ information structure, I do not go as far as to say, that the ‘structured’, information is unneeded – I am writing some right now, am I not? I can not imagine a world of ‘random’ information only. But it is exactly through the interplay between ‘random’ and ‘structured’ information, between ‘random’ and ‘structured’ realities, that civilization is being kept alive, is given youth. If the ‘random’ side of the information flow is repressed, there follows a brief glory of a ‘structured’ world, before its inevitable, bloody, horrific death.
As happened to the European civilization in the first half of the 20th century, and the most extreme example of this process – Nazi Germany. Even if it succeeds in existing for more then 20 years without exploding, the ‘ultra-structured’ world of controlled information flows is maintained on one hand by the officials turning a blind eye on the black market which prevents the economy from collapse, and on the other - by a constant parallel underworld of threats, kidnappings, tortures and executions – like in the USSR and many dead and contemporary societies, where only happy, positive stuff is allowed to be shown on the surface.It absolutely must be remembered, that it’s highly disciplined people, with clear moral values, and inbred loyalty and self-sacrifice, who conducted many of the horrors of the Second World War. ‘Disciplined’, ‘moral’, ‘loyal’ – this is a description of the Nazis. I’ve met in many books a question baffling the authors: how was it possible for the best educated and most disciplined people in Europe – the Germans[1] - to behave like such monsters? I find nothing strange in this. The German system of programming the population was the most efficient one, it created the best possible robots, and they did what they were told to do. No mystery here. That is what you get, if the only reality available is the official state one. Another type of disciplined, courageous, loyal and conservatively moral people is the one consisting of individuals who blow themselves up on bus stops.
A main reason for the reaction of the decent folks against other realities, is that the very fact of existence of another set of values, automatically makes their decent official reality ‘relative’ as in ‘not the supreme and only official reality’. Having the possibility of choice between different truths makes robots very very nervous and prone to unpredictable acts of violence.
There always have been monsters among humans, who behave in horrific fashion – who rape their children, beat their partners, kill for pleasure, humiliate weaker people, etc.. These monsters existed before the war on drugs was invented, they will exist long after the war on drugs has been forgotten. The existence of these monsters is made possible by, among other things, the endlessly perpetuated hypocritical world of a ‘pretend reality’, and the unspoken ‘dark’ sides. Below the official reality of the decent folks is bubbling a dark counterweight abyss, full of forbidden pleasures and horrific nightmares. What the decent folks don’t realize, is that the dark abyss within them exists only because they keep up a pretend reality by constantly lying to themselves. It’s a mental compensating mechanism. Stop lying to yourself, examine honestly what you are, and you no longer will have to exercise all available mental energy to suppress ‘the animal below’, because there is no ‘animal below’, without ‘the hypocrite above’. This is the difference between a mental ‘free market’, and a mental ‘state plan economy’, compensated by a mental black market.When free market is replaced by state and corporate monopoly, there automatically appears a cruel and primitive black market, to compensate the obvious untruths and therefore inefficiencies of the structured monopoly. There is in such a society on one side an endless official war against the black market, and on the other – everyone gets things really done the black market way.
Inevitably, in any society of more than one type of human psyches, there are overlapping realities, but there must be a liberal market of competing realities, if we are to avoid the cruel primitivism of the black market and the sophisticated sadism of the state officials. This goes for society in general, it also goes for the individual’s mind – if you hide from yourself the ‘bad stuff’ and only see the ‘good stuff’, very quickly hysteria or schizophrenia sets in – as it has indeed set in, in mild, medium, and intense form, in almost everyone. Similar rules I believe apply both to the information management of the individual mind, and of society in general, as society (being a set of beliefs, values, truths and taboos) exist only in the minds of the individuals which inhabit it, and is therefore a projection of the dominant structure of the psyche.
So on one hand, our psyches are programmed by society, on the other – society exists only within our minds. On one hand I am shaped by external forces, on the other – there’s nothing out there. Well – there are other beings like me, who keep communicating between each other patterns of information, which they believe to be the existing reality around them, a belief for which most are prepared to kill and some – to die. They’d rather kill, they’d rather die, then admit that they are ill liars. Proving, of course, that they indeed are very ill liars.
C.
Talking of projections - Civilization is on the brink of collapse not because the structured efforts of the state and decent folks are unable to create their perfect world. Civilization is on the brink, because they – the inhabitants of the dominant dreams - are succeeding far too well, following their own lies to the disasters to which they lead them, with increasingly more effective technologies to translate these inevitable disasters into global mayhem.
When the movements against opium appeared in Great Britain in the 19th century, it being an ‘immoral’ drug, the people fighting the use of opium would say: ‘look what’s happening in China! You get addicts who sell their wives and children just to be able to buy the drug.’ Oooh, my, what an evil drug, tsk, tsk. Well how come a modern junkie in Detroit or Paris doesn’t sell his wife and kids? Its not opium which made 19th century Chinese society into a place where the wife and children are seen as products which can be bought and sold! A fucked up society is fucked up with or without opium. And it’s not smoking cigarettes, which transforms old Cambodian peasants into skeletons, whatever the educational films on TV may say. And it’s not heroin that makes modern Russia what it is today. Or perhaps it was vodka that was responsible for the appearance of the USSR, and beer for the appearance of the Third Reich? And marijuana smoking is responsible for the bloody civil wars in Africa? It is not alcohol or drugs which makes possible the miseries of this world, its just that we allow ourselves to admit to the existence of these miseries only when connected to someone we can despise or pity. Which just shows how pathetic we are.
The current obsession with childhood sexuality, resulting in ‘pedophile tourism’, and child pornography being the dark secret of our synthetic clean society, is the direct result of the hysterical attempts of the mechanized corpses to ensure ‘control’ over themselves and others through lies and emotional violence. They lead a life of evasions, denials, emotional games of domination and humiliation. Refusing to accept that their life and their mask are not the same thing, that they are full of suppressed fear and pain, by ignoring them, they let the fear and pain to secretly take life over, and shape all activities and feelings. Forever wondering “Did anyone see? Did anyone see behind my mask?” And congratulating themselves “No one saw! No one saw behind my mask!”, and then lying to themselves “No mask! No mask exists! This is all that I am – nothing else! Nothing else!”
They see children, with their innocent perceptions and naïve emotions, and they feel strange. They are jealous of the children. But instead of asking themselves ‘why am I not like that any longer? Can I ever do something to be like that for at least five minutes?’ they try neurotically to infect themselves with the innocence of children by physical contact, in the process destroying what they do not have but desperately want. And after a while, they get twisted pleasure just from the fact of destroying a soul, or of getting satisfaction of going through pathetic rituals with soul already destroyed before. And this is not that strange – for what else can a soul which is destroyed itself, desire?
What will happen, if in spite of its inefficiency and absurdities, the machine of the official reality suddenly succeeds in all fields? When the last visible ‘drug abuser’, ‘pervert’, ‘nut case’ and ‘delinquent’ are jailed or hospitalized, there will follow half a decade of forced happy smiling and collective building, before the internal pressures of the primitive robot’s psyche blow the world into smithereens once again.
[1] As well as most ‘disciplined’, ‘loyal’, etc., people in East Asia – the Japanese.
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