"The indoctrination effect, regarding the individual, is to
make him think he no longer has an independent existence. Those who
still have functioning minds are taught that 'the individual' was a
concept that had a use at an earlier stage of evolution, when modern
systems and structures were still developing---but 'individual' became
an accurate synonym for 'criminal' when benign super-government took
over..." (The Underground, Jon Rappoport)
October 2, 2071, the Center of Centers, United Europe. Citizen G1435-X
was brought into a secret conference room in the Department of
Re-Education, Special Branch.
His interviewer held the title of Mental Health Representative of the
People Level 14, or MHR. This is an excerpt from their conversation:
MHR: Are you aware of the size of the United Europe Government?
Citizen: I know that almost everyone I meet works for the Government in some capacity.
MHR: If you include corporations, which of course are in partnership
with Government on many levels, the figure approaches eighty percent of
the population.
Citizen: And there are the computers and robots, too.
MHR: The correct name is Machines for the Illumination of Everyone.
Citizen: What do you want from me?
MHR: That's the whole point. There is no you.
Citizen: How can that be true? I'm sitting here.
MHR: No, that is an illusion. For convenience sake, an assumption is
being made: 'I am I and you are you.' It facilitates this
conversation. But in truth, we are one. We are in accord. We know the
same knowing.
Citizen: Gibberish.
MHR: It would sound like gibberish to a disaffected part of the whole. A
disaffected part, which is 'you,' simply needs to surrender. Then you
will cease to be a diseased illusory series of thoughts.
Citizen: And this is official Government policy?
MHR: Of course. The culmination of all Government is the shared cosmic body. Another term for it is Universe.
Citizen: At one time, limited government was instituted to protect the freedom of the individual.
MHR: You mean at one time, an illusion was instituted to protect another illusion.
Citizen: I'm still me.
MHR: Against the entirety of Government? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?
Citizen: Where are you from? Where were you born? Where did you grow up?
MHR: These are all irrelevant questions. Even asking them is a
violation of the law. They lead to making elitist distinctions favoring
some over others.
Citizen: I'm not asking others. I'm asking you.
MHR: You're assuming there was a time when I thought of myself as an individual.
Citizen: Didn't you?
MHR: There are errors. People commit errors before necessary corrections are made.
Citizen: You're evading my question.
MHR: Why do you hate everyone?
Citizen: I don't.
MHR: You must.
Citizen: Why?
MHR: Because you refuse to merge with them.
Citizen: Merge? What does that mean? It's a word that's been twisted
in the new language all of you speak. The phony language. Merge?
MHR: Oppositional Defiance Disorder. Language Aversion Disorder.
Illusion Disorder. Individualist Disorder. You're suffering from a
host of mental illnesses.
Citizen: France, Germany, England, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain. Do you remember those terms?
MHR: Of course I do. It's part of my job. They're on the Forbidden Words List. Only deranged persons insist on using them.
Citizen: What about the word 'money'?
MHR: Also forbidden. The correct term is 'credit' or 'allocation'.
Citizen: What about 'freedom'?
MHR: That is a technical term. It specifically refers to alternatives
methods of problem-solving a machine can opt for. It has no other
meaning.
Citizen: You're joking.
MHR: I assure you, I'm not. You undoubtedly believe the sentence, 'An
individual has freedom' actually means something. But it was never more
than a piece of propaganda.
Citizen: You have everything backwards.
MHR: You're going to be entered in a program of re-education.
Citizen: It won't work.
MHR: You're not the first person to tell me that. You'll discover, in
the coming months, what 'greater good' means. You'll also experience
the joy of Oneness for All.
Citizen: How are going to manage that?
MHR: We're going to connect your brain with the Kurzweil computer. You'll download trillions of data that reveal the truth.
Citizen: Which is?
MHR: You and every other person in Europe are identical. You are, so to speak, copies of each other.
Citizen: And if I refuse to accept that?
MHR: You won't have any data to the contrary.
Citizen: What?
MHR: The information we insert will crowd out whatever else is present
in your mind. Think of what you now 'know' and believe as a lake. We
will empty that lake into a huge ocean. Soon the lake will be
invisible. For all intents and purposes, it will have disappeared.
Citizen: Suppose the opposite happens? Suppose the lake swallows the ocean.
MHR: Impossible. We will search out every word you use and provide new
meanings. Proper meanings. Then you will think and speak according to
the law.
Citizen: Do you believe I'm the only individualist in Europe? There is a rebellion underway.
MHR: Under what name? What is your organization?
Citizen: There is no organization.
MHR: That's absurd. You would have to have an organization.
Citizen: Not true. That's why you have a problem. If there were an
organization, you could co-opt it. You could infiltrate it. You could
offer it special favors. You could set it against other organizations.
MHR: The word 'rebellion' means an organized opposition...
Citizen: In your language it does. You think all human activity takes place in groups. But you're wrong.
MHR: How could we be wrong? We control language.
Citizen: You control your language. But many individuals don't accept your definitions.
MHR: There is only one language.
Citizen: Your language pertains to groups. But this rebellion, as I just said, has nothing to do with groups.
MHR: I don't like where you're going with this.
Citizen: Remember the French language? There are people who still speak it.
MHR: 'French' is a forbidden word.
Citizen: Keep telling yourself that. Remember a city called Vienna? Or Stockholm?
MHR: You're not supposed to know those words.
Citizen: But I do.
Vouloir, c'est pouvoir.
MHR: That language is outlawed.
Citizen: It loosely means, if you want something, you can get it.
MHR: I know what it means.
Citizen: So you speak French.
MHR: I have to, in order to know what is illegal.
Citizen: Do you remember the French writer, Albert Camus? And his essay,
The Rebel?
MHR: The word 'rebel' is absolutely forbidden. It has no meaning.
Citizen: I beg to differ.
MHR: Rebellion equals mental disorder. The disorder is real. The
rebellion is merely a form of compensatory behavior, a pretense.
Citizen: You think you've established a United Europe composed of androids, but you haven't. That's
your pretense.
MHR: There is only one genuine human impulse: to do good for others. And the State owns that impulse.
Citizen: Do you know what you're saying? How absurd it is?
MHR: The State must own it, in order to make sure the future is directed as it should be.
Citizen: So the State is defined as that entity which maintains all that is good.
MHR: Of course. How could it be any other way?
Citizen: Let me make an inference here. If the day dawns when all
citizens adopt the new language, you will be able to forget the history
you know: the old languages, the old cultures, the old cities. You'll
be able to forget the past.
MHR: Theoretically, yes.
Citizen: Will it make you happy to forget it, to let go of it?
MHR: Of course.
Citizen: I don't think so. I think you want to be one of a small number
of elite people who remember everything. I think you cherish the
past. You want to possess it.
MHR: How dare you say that.
Citizen: You'll be the rare person who can read Shakespeare, Goethe,
Homer, Dante, Yeats. You'll be a scholar in an invisible university.
MHR: I serve the cosmic body of the State.
Citizen: You serve only yourself and a few others. You want individuality, but you want to deny it to the rest of us.
---end of interview excerpt---
Apparently, at this point, MHR experienced an episode of some kind.
Acutely elevated blood pressure, a burst vessel, a heart attack. The
record is unclear...
Sources report that his interview with Citizen G1435-X was preserved in a
secret archive, to be read by government leaders and understood as a
cautionary tale...
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