master the weapons of the enemy and use them against them

jack says it’s important for all free-thinking and logical people to understand the weapons of the enemy.

I have discussed them at length in my previous posts and find that a good-working knowledge of their mechanisms coupled with an ability to use them myself has helped me suffer fools if not gladly, at least for shorter durations.

Hypocricy, Indignation, Bold-faced Lies, Flippency & the Joke.

A dismissive snort and ‘you would think that’ has helped me to silence bigotry. Accusing neocons of homosexuality or pedophelia and claiming an authentic source of intellegence has shifted conversations from a debate of issue and policy to the defence of an indiviual. Characterizing a position as ‘fearful’, ‘niave’ or ‘timid’ has been far more effective than reason.

On the whole I recommend that these tools be used sparingly. Prolonged exposure and a reliance on them impares the musclarity of ones character and the clarity of his vision.

Jack did not think of these things himself – they were first presented to him by the Christian Philosopher, C.S. Lewis and are more eloquently discribed in ‘The Screwtape Letters’, official playbook of the Bush administration

The Joke: any foul, liablous, racist, decietful and hateful comment or action can be made under the guise of ‘just being a joke.’ Make no mistake, everyword is intended and meant to be a slap in the face the claim that it is humour is simly to avoid the consequences.

Flippency: take for example a comment like Stop spending money like a drunken Kennedy. To make a joke requires a degree of wit, a quick intellegence, etc. Flippency is less effort and easier for people of limited intellegence. Flipency is realy just snide comments delivered with venom. The intention is to imply the joke has already been made and everyone is in on it.

Using either of these techniques affords many chances to be offensive and condecending with out accepting the risks of making insults openly. As mentioned before, those who find themselves lured by the right-wing neo-conservtive rhetoric do so for the chance to feel ‘strong’ or ‘edgy’ or some other non-sence. To be plain, the big black boots make them feel better about themselves.

at first jacK only employed them as a way of making a point and to demonstrate how they worked but soon he discovered their power to seduce…

It can be a lot of fun ripping into someone when you are unfettered by such considerations as truth or decency but the effect is toxic. Toxic in a way that builds up in your body and has a cumlative effect on your soul.

You can only pretend to be a thing for so long before finding, as Kevin Costner once said: _‘at the behest I became what I beheld and am content that I have done, yadha, yadha, yadha.’_or more to the point – you are what you say and do, there is no pretending. You can’t call ‘game-on’ or ‘game-off’ and revert to your ‘true self.’

Take the example of a certain vulgar, mysoganinstic, bigotted radio show host who has claimed ‘I’m not really like this, it’s just an act’ -well sorry Charlie, it dosn’t work that way.

Still, it is important to understand how they play the game and how they are best countered. They are best countered with immeadiate and direct action.

Fists are best – but not allways practical. It is important not to argue, not to engage but to control the situation – the way cops do: as soon as you allow someone to start talking you begin to lose. Shut them down quickly and bluntly. that’s a load of shit, and your an fucking idiot for saying it.

In the end though it is necessary to transcend ideology and embrace true balance. Not right or left but logical & active.

neo-cons are belligerent by choice, they make loud and abrasive, facile statements inorder to provoke people of more reasonable demeaner. When someone responds as expected to such provocation they suddenly huddle in hurt indignation and cry about how they are the victims of intolerence, censorship…yahda, yadha, yadha

Think of the examples – affirmative action? Suddenly a couple hundred years of oppression has been reversed and white males just can’t get ahead, lo the misfortune that has come unto them. Why they’re the victims of racism.

What is truly tragic – or maybe it’s funny, is how effective this B.S. is. Perfectly rational, sensitive and good-hearted people will fall all over themselves trying to mitigate their reactions, they’ll ‘agree to disagree’ or try to persuade the belligerent cry-babies by looking at it from their point of view, excuse inappropriate behaviour by raising the issues of the ‘inciting incidents’ in the fool’s back-ground (and an all-too privledged back-ground it usually is though they will claim to have been raised on baloney by hard-working parents too-proud to depend on public assistance programs.

So remember be a rude, insulting, hypocrit and a liar. Make every attempt to provoke the enemy – then cry you are being victimized, oppressed, censored, what-ever when the appropriate response seems forthcoming.

why bother using anything like the truth, logic or argument to persuade people?

It is far easier and more effective simply to lie. Argument simply serves to make a person think and the enemy does not want to encourage that, oh no. Better to make them feel a position is ‘strong’, ‘righteous’ or ‘controvercial’ – actual thinking leads to an end the enemy would not encourage.

Remember the ‘weapons of mass destruction?’

~observe now as I employ this tool against a rather shrill and tedious conservative harpy I just discovered on this site. twisted sister