07-03-2022, 01:46:06 AM
The Director is about to give a speech, so take your attention and pay it!
...ookay then. Fuck. Alright. Here we go. Sspeech. Yep. Sspeech. Keep in mind what audience floran iss sspeaking to in thiss context, thankss. Iss for like, one of thosse sseminarss.
Sso, today we're talking about replaceability! You are all replaceable. You are unique, but you are replaceable. Thiss ssoundss contradictory, but iss true. It'ss one of the great liess of ssociety that individualissm iss a real thing. In practice, individualissm iss jusst a different type of collectivissm. It encouragess people to "sstand out" from "the crowd", but in practice, doing that meanss not being an individual.
There'ss the old thought-terminating cliche, "if everyone'ss sspecial no one iss". It'ss normally ussed to inssult people who want to acknowledge ssome group or another as being hurt by ssome policy. But in reality, thiss iss not what individualissm LEADSS to, thiss iss what iss fundamentally true. There iss no ideology short of ssolipssissm which ssayss that your uniquenesss iss unique. You are replaceable. No matter how good you are at what you do, it doessn't matter, becausse even if you're the besst at it, ssomeone elsse could ALSSO do what you do. Thiss iss how it workss.
As a dictator, you need to remember thiss. Now, as an asspiring dictator, you are probably not wired to fully accept thiss. That makess it more important to undersstand. You need to take away thiss from thiss talk. You are, at leasst in the eyess of everyone elsse, interchangable with any given number of other people. You in your own eyess are great and powerful. Thiss might be true! But you need to accept that other people will tend to ssee you not as particularly different from anyone elsse. Thiss iss why the cult of perssonality iss sso fundamental, and thiss iss why you should grow it. Make your followerss think that you ARE NOT replaceable. You'll never get your inner circle fully on board with thiss, but you can keep them in line with threatss and bribess. Terror buildss a cult of persssonality, sscapegoating buildss one. Build one, and you'll have apologisstss for your regime long after you're dead, if you should end up dead. No one rememberss Pol Pot possitively. That iss what you need to know.
Uhh next time, we talk about the wayss to ssilence disssent through both-ssidessing!
Any thoughtss, quesstionss?
...ookay then. Fuck. Alright. Here we go. Sspeech. Yep. Sspeech. Keep in mind what audience floran iss sspeaking to in thiss context, thankss. Iss for like, one of thosse sseminarss.
Sso, today we're talking about replaceability! You are all replaceable. You are unique, but you are replaceable. Thiss ssoundss contradictory, but iss true. It'ss one of the great liess of ssociety that individualissm iss a real thing. In practice, individualissm iss jusst a different type of collectivissm. It encouragess people to "sstand out" from "the crowd", but in practice, doing that meanss not being an individual.
There'ss the old thought-terminating cliche, "if everyone'ss sspecial no one iss". It'ss normally ussed to inssult people who want to acknowledge ssome group or another as being hurt by ssome policy. But in reality, thiss iss not what individualissm LEADSS to, thiss iss what iss fundamentally true. There iss no ideology short of ssolipssissm which ssayss that your uniquenesss iss unique. You are replaceable. No matter how good you are at what you do, it doessn't matter, becausse even if you're the besst at it, ssomeone elsse could ALSSO do what you do. Thiss iss how it workss.
As a dictator, you need to remember thiss. Now, as an asspiring dictator, you are probably not wired to fully accept thiss. That makess it more important to undersstand. You need to take away thiss from thiss talk. You are, at leasst in the eyess of everyone elsse, interchangable with any given number of other people. You in your own eyess are great and powerful. Thiss might be true! But you need to accept that other people will tend to ssee you not as particularly different from anyone elsse. Thiss iss why the cult of perssonality iss sso fundamental, and thiss iss why you should grow it. Make your followerss think that you ARE NOT replaceable. You'll never get your inner circle fully on board with thiss, but you can keep them in line with threatss and bribess. Terror buildss a cult of persssonality, sscapegoating buildss one. Build one, and you'll have apologisstss for your regime long after you're dead, if you should end up dead. No one rememberss Pol Pot possitively. That iss what you need to know.
Uhh next time, we talk about the wayss to ssilence disssent through both-ssidessing!
Any thoughtss, quesstionss?
I am the They who says it!