Survival Lesson # 3: Never allow the Ruling Class to humiliate you into believing artificial realities
Survival Lessons to save the Surviving Class #RulingClass [updated 09 27 2023]
I start each of these Survival Lessons with a reference to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four novel. The Ruling Class in the novel not only sought complete control over its subjects. It also sought to destroy their human spirits. Subjects with no human spirit are ever pliable to whimsical Ruling Class needs. Subjects with a destroyed human spirit will never be a challenge to the authority of the Ruling Class.
Humiliation is a very powerful tool of the Ruling Class.
Theodore Dalrymple is an English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of African countries as well as in London. For him….
Theodore Dalrymple
“Political correctness is communist [Ruling Class] propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist [Ruling Class] propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness [Enabling Class propaganda], it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Before Dalrymple was George Orwell. In his Nineteen Eighty-Four novel, a subject (Winston) of the Ruling Class (Big Brother) is humiliated into believing the equation of 2 + 2 = 5. This humiliation was a test that Ruling Class whims were in control of every aspect of a Winston’s thinking and every framework through which he constructed reality. The Ruling Class policies dominated. “Objective reality" only existed if it extended Ruling Class power.
Here are some humiliation points imposed by the modern Ruling and Enabling Classes upon the Surviving Class:
Biological females and males are the same.
Skin color alone can define one as a racist.
Face masks offer only positive health effects without negative health & societal effects.
Social justice demonstrations do not spread COVID, unlike church gatherings.
COVID infected immigrants do not spread the virus across the US.
Anyone who votes against the Ruling Class is a deplorable, irredeemable and possibly insurrectionist citizen.
The United States is a systematically racist country.
New voter integrity laws are actually voter suppression.
Global warming is primarily caused by man and is settled science.
Any form of managed or controlled immigration is racist.
Non-citizen immigrants deserve more government benefits than homeless US citizens.
Western culture has a history of evil that needs to be punished, purged and phased out.
Men are naturally misogynistic.
Enabling Class media and Big Tech are unbiased in their application of censorship.
Crime is justifiable as a form of reparations.
Pre-teen children can made decisions to have themselves surgically and chemically mutilated in quest for trans-sexual identity.
And perhaps the most obvious attempt at humiliation is the idea that the Ruling Class is selfless, and its decisions are made for the benefit of the societies it governs.
The Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the English novelist George Orwell and Chinese strategist Sun Tzu had this to say. All three were very familiar with authoritative Ruling Classes:
Solzhenitsyn: “Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
Orwell: “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Sun Tzu: “The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
This survival lesson is about not allowing yourself to be humiliated into accepting Ruling Class 2 + 2 = 5 artificial realities. The human spirit has a chance of surviving in truth, a 2 + 2 = 4 reality.