To truly free ourselves, I believe we have three major tasks ahead of us: 1. we must begin to preach the new religion of freedom; 2. we must gradually disconnect people from ever-abusive mainstream media until we are ready to think for ourselves again; 3. we must prepare for our exodus from urban 'civilization' which has proven to be nothing but a fly trap for our desires. This is a strategy for the very long term. But if we choose to go down this road, we shall make ourselves immune to exploitation.
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At university, I took a course called Introduction to Ecology. I learned that certain species of beetles can live among ants undetected in their colonies. Though very different in form, these parasitical beetles evolved to have a similar scent as their host, and so, can move unseen.
For example, the parasitic highwayman beetle will live among ants and literally steal food from his hosts’ mouths. “Glands around their heads and mouths secrete a mysterious appeasement compound that distracts the hapless worker ant,” researchers explain.
And, “The ants march on, and on, and on, for the good of the collective, while the highwayman is out only for itself.” However, if the fraud is detected, worker ants will try to flip over the invasive beetle, and then tear off its antennae and legs as punishment.
Human beings, too, have learned to exploit one another, but several modes of exploitation wholly evade the justice system. The financial exploitation of an entire people through currency inflation, for example, devalues one’s savings.
Commercial advertising that convinces people to purchase goods and services at a price far exceeding their actual value is another example. And who can resist paying 20$ or more at a fancy restaurant for what is basically a $1 pasta dish?
Above all, cities are the epicenter of human exploitation. Here, men and women have perfected the exploitation of people’s beliefs, their desires, and their gullibility. The city promises us great tastes, sensations, views, and the fulfillment of our dreams — but it all comes at an overpaid price point.
Big cities can easily exploit people to the point where they can no longer afford to have families and are, therefore, forced to embrace the lie of the individualist lifestyle, also heavily promoted by urban propaganda. Families, after all, demand frugal lifestyles, and big corporations can’t profit off of money that isn’t spent.
Television, too, and media in general, lure us in with images of beautiful people whose lives are far more exciting than our own. And then, TV directors slip in political messaging or even emotional abuse to make us feel inferior unless we buy the next feel-better product that we never knew we needed.
But at least we are free, we think. Not unless out of the class of urban exploiters, a distinct new race of people has evolved, a people who, like the highwayman beetle, isn’t in it for humanity’s advancement, but solely for itself? What would the implications of such a parasitical class of humans be for the rest of us?
Imagine, for the sake of argument, that there is a race of men who look and speak just like us, but whose interests lie with the deliberate exploitation of humanity.
Say, hypothetically, that this race of men is mostly interested in ruling the world, and attempts to do so by, for example, harvesting people’s attention, their consciousness, by cleverly exploiting our desires, and our unfulfilled lives?
Imagine this class of people didn’t care about race or religion, nor about culture or tradition, not about the preservation of any conservative ideal, but saw nature itself solely as a business area full of economic opportunity?
In my worst nightmares, such an urban parasite, so driven by global conquest, would learn to attach itself to different peoples, whichever offered the most benefits. If, for example, the Europeans of the colonial age appeared to have a chance at ruling the world, the parasite would inject itself into their societies, undetected, and ‘ride the tiger’, so to speak.
If at another time, the European peoples appeared to have exhausted themselves, but other people, say, the Central Africans and their descendants around the globe, seemed to be having a better shot at winning the world through sheer number and fecundity, the parasite would happily mix with their new host.
In fact, the parasite, betting on all horses at the race, could even pursue its own strategy of replacing its present host — Europeans — with a new host — Africans — by promoting strategic replacement immigration, and by using its media influence to promote one people to positions of power and demote another to poverty.
Here, then, lies a window of opportunity for the old race that has been exploited for so long. If the urban parasite now appears to prefer other people over ours, perhaps we may finally disconnect from the fruitless rat race that has led to nothing but disappointment in life.
Our dreams, needless to say, were never fulfilled. Our wishes were never granted. Only our labor was exploited, and our gullibility. Seeing that the city is where the parasite derives its power, as the beetle in an ant colony, may we not freely choose to dissociate ourselves from the parasitical relationship?
Wouldn’t it be possible to create for ourselves a condition upon which no parasite, present or future, could ever exploit our dreams again, by making ourselves ungovernable in some way? Does the answer lie in leaving the big cities, leaving modernity behind, and returning to the lands where we may sustain ourselves without usury and taxation?
To truly free ourselves, I believe we have three major tasks ahead of us:
we must begin to preach the new religion of freedom;
we must gradually disconnect people from ever-abusive mainstream media until we are ready to think for ourselves again;
we must prepare for our exodus from urban ‘civilization’ which has proven to be nothing but a fly trap for our desires;
This is a strategy for the very long term. But if we choose to go down this road, we shall make ourselves immune to exploitation.
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