Does it trouble you at all that any group would think you have an obligation to believe in the constituents of its mythology? Yet here we are. I don’t use the term slavocracy lightly. But when one is expected to internalize the ideological hegemony of the corporate state everywhere in his life, the paternalism characteristic of slavocracy is manifest. At the very least, it is imminent—if we don’t resist it.
I don’t believe in subjective things for which there is no evidence beyond the individuals telling me that this is what he believes, even if what he believes is shared by others. Even if there is a book.
This is my rational default. You tell me you were abducted by aliens; I want evidence. You tell me your home is haunted by ghosts, I will need to see for myself—and even then, if I see something, I will suspect it is a trick, or you have put something in my drink.
I don’t believe in Scientology’s construct of the thetan, and I don’t have to. To be sure, if Scientology were the state religion, and those who wished I believed in thetans had the power to compel me to under threat of punishment (in which case they would compel bad faith only), then I will find people, and I may be among them, believing in thetans for the sake of others—for the sake of survival. But compelling belief in subjective things or in things for which there is no evidence is morally wrong and totalitarian. If you want this, you’re an authoritarian.
How did we get to a point where an organization or institution can compel a citizen or an employee to undergo a struggle session the end of which is a new congregant for the church in power?
Can you imagine if Scientology were the corporate state religion and you and I would have to undergo training in Dianetics and be compelled to undergo auditing to clear the tangle of trauma to reveal the thetan—to conjure from us our authentic selves?
You don’t have to imagine something like this. That is the world of DEI. You live in that world. Nobody asked you if this was the world you wanted to live in.
It’s as if we don’t live in a democratic republic with a bill of rights that guarantees us freedom of conscience, speech, press, and association, after all. It’s as if we have no privacy, no presumption of innocence, or the right to remain silent and aloof. It’s as if the constitutional republic we thought we knew as the United States of America was always only a hallucination, a simulation, where the phantoms of freedom were only situational and superficial—convenient to power to perpetuate our unfreedom.
You are not a child in need of being told how to regard others or how to think about the world. You don’t need offices and programs to reform your character and wash your brains when they suspect you’re guilty of wrong-think. Infantilization of the subjects under control is a technique of the slavocracy, or life on a hi-tech estate.
Wear your mask. Come inside. Take your medicine. Don’t call names. Watch your tone. It’s unsafe over there. I don’t like your friends. I am concerned about you. Are you okay? Can I help? I think you need help. Why are you being so difficult? What are you going through? What happened to you?
freedom and reason 