Thursday, November 7, 2024
5108: The Corporate Mind-Set from Lincoln County Watch
By Anna Von Reitz
It
is apparent that the worst enemies that our efforts face come from
within us, in the shape of the deep indoctrination we have all received
from the schools, churches, corporate employers, military service, and
other government interactions we have had.
This
indoctrination is so pervasive, so insidious, and so generally accepted
that most people have a hard time recognizing it when it rears its ugly
head. So I am taking a little time today to outline and describe "the
Enemy" of all free men and women.
What does the Corporate Mind-Set look like? How can we reliably recognize it --- and avoid it?
The Hallmark of the Corporate Mind-Set is competition.
The Corporate Mind-Set assumes that we are all in a competition, individually and as groups of people, too.
As such, we are forced into the position of thinking in terms of out-performing and/or undermining "the competition".
Anyone
who doesn't think the way we do, is "the competition". Anyone who
doesn't appear to belong to our "team" is "the competition". Anyone who
opposes our actions, anyone who doesn't act as a "team player" is the
competition.
In
some cases, anyone who isn't the same color, or who doesn't share our
religious beliefs, or who strongly opposes us on one particular issue
becomes "the competition".
In
extreme cases, it's just the suspicion that someone might not be on
"our side" that is sufficient to brand them as "the competition".
Once this identification of "the competition" has been made, they have to be "beaten" and we have to "win" whatever the cost.
But the irony is, that this is a Mind Set in which everyone loses.
It's a False Option. There is no way to "win" the Us Versus Them Game. Just like you can never "win" a political election.
You
get one CEO or another, but you are never the CEO of your own life, are
you? So you don't win in either case, and neither does anyone else.
The
war-like mentality of the Corporate Mind Set fractures natural
communities into factions, so that we divide and conquer ourselves.
The
members of rival factions then tear away at each other, gossiping about
each other, blaming each other, slandering each other, and acting like
nasty children, tattle-talking about each other, bragging up their own
accomplishments, tooting their own horns, proudly asserting their
superior moral rectitude, and presenting themselves (or their faction)
as being on "the right side" of every issue.
They
tattle-talk to whomever they assume to be in a superior office, which
leads to the second Hallmark of the Corporate Mind-Set: belief in
positional authority.
The governmental and other institutions we are familiar with have all functioned via positional authority.
Authority
is neatly compartmentalized and distributed in a strict positional
hierarchy, with an Executive Officer at the top of the pyramid, and
increasingly less exalted officers arranged in ranks below the CEO, and
all of them standing above the rank and file members of the public ---
at least in their own minds.
This
is the corporate model and it is what we associate with government,
because the only government we have known in our lifetimes has been
provided by foreign Municipal and British Crown corporations that are
organized and function in this fashion.
So we have the spectacle of American Assembly members searching desperately for the CEO in charge, when there is no CEO.
Most
of the time, these people mistake the Coordinator for the CEO, and the
Coordinator is then faced with the temptation of "assuming" the vacant
role of CEO and functioning as a CEO, so that everyone feels reassured
and can hand over their own responsibility and authority to him or her
--- or determinedly resisting the CEO role and making the members of the
Assembly rise to the occasion.
Once
the Corporate Mind Set takes hold, the participants in this foreign
system think it is their "duty" to follow the direction of their CEO and
protect the CEO figure --- so that they can continue to side-step their
own obligation to self-govern.
After
160 years of being told what to do by our British Territorial
Employees, many Americans don't know how to operate their own government
or even think for themselves.
It's hard and it's uncomfortable to take responsibility for themselves and their own government.
At the bottom of it, they don't want to do the work and they don't want to be responsible for making the decisions.
They
want someone else to tell them what to think, how to act, where to go
and what to do and when. They are all too eager to cast the burdens of
the CEO on someone else, and when there is, objectively, no CEO on
offer, they push and struggle to find one or create one.
But
our government is composed of equals, each bearing equal
responsibility, having equal authority. So we don't have CEO's and
ranks of bureaucrats and institutionalized Operations Manuals telling us
what to do and how to do it.
Instead,
we have to accept the challenge to know ourselves and to govern
ourselves as individuals, as counties, as States, as a country.....
As
Americans, we have to use our own faculties instead of relying on a
CEO. We have to use our own ability to gather facts, our own discernment
to sift and winnow those facts, our own ability to reason our way
through things, our own sense of justice.
Then,
we have to come together, as families, communities, counties, State
governments, an entire country..... to promote what is best for everyone
concerned. Laws that protect everyone. Services that benefit everyone.
It's a tall order.
Rules are so convenient and easy and reassuring in their own odd way.
No
white shoes until Memorial Day. Don't walk on the grass. Don't talk
to strangers. Always face East while saluting the flag. Do what your
commanding officer tells you.
Rules
give you the reasonable, but ultimately incorrect idea, that if you
simply follow the rules and obey them, you will be rewarded in some way,
or at least not blamed.
Having
a hierarchy of power standing above you and all sorts of people in
layers of bureaucracy, too, generating rules for you to follow, is part
of what is so comforting and seductive about the Corporate Mind-Set.
As long as you are a good little dweeb and do what you are told, you are safe. Or are you?
You are certainly not free, but are you safe---- really?
No.
You are still responsible for your actions, as certain Nazi soldiers
and bureaucrats found out at Nuremberg. Just following orders and
obeying rules set by someone else is no excuse.
It
turns out that the Corporate Mind-Set leads us not only to war and
divisiveness because as individuals and as groups, we must always be
competing with each other and everyone else --- but the
safety-through-obedience that we assume when we are ensnared in the
Corporate Mind-Set is illusory, too.
The
Corporate Mind-Set is an artificial construct in which we give away our
power (along with, we hope, our responsibility) to someone else, and in
the process, give away our rights as well.
Remember what you have been told: rights come with responsibilities firmly attached to them.
If you have and accept no responsibility, you also have no rights.
When
we see Assemblies engaged in "he said - she said" battles, with groups
of cronies knotted up in opposite corners of their self-created boxing
ring, we know that Assembly has been infected with the Corporate
Mind-Set.
We
know that because in every case the members of the Assembly in question
have allowed the "us versus them" mentality to creep in.
In
every case, someone has knowingly or unknowingly occupied the CEO seat
--- usually the Coordinator, but sometimes the Marshal at Arms or other
official, and they are being protected by their adherents or attacked by
those opposing their leadership.
In every case, they are missing the point that we are all leaders in the American Government. All.
These
people who have carried the baggage of the Corporate Mind Set with them
are unconsciously re-creating the same old monster that they wish to be
free of, because they are falling back into the familiar Corporate
Mindset like a computer operating on default settings.
There is a zombie-like aspect to this. They are doing this on automatic and don't know that they are doing anything wrong.
Somewhere
in the back of their programming, they assume that they are right and
doing things the way they are "supposed" to be done,
according to everything they've ever known.
And
that is precisely the point --- we have never known the freedom and
honesty and simplicity and harmony that is possible with our own
American Government. That's what we need to learn.
We aren't here to recreate the Corporate Model or the Corporate Mind Set, either one.
Ours
is a profoundly different way of organizing and accomplishing the tasks
of government. Instead of the CEO telling us what we have to do and
how to do it, we have Spokespeople expressing our collective will.
Instead of Departments and Agencies, we have Committees.
Instead of authority based on position in a hierarchy, we have functions --- work to do.
Instead of lying and scheming for corporate profit, our motive is to protect each other and our respective individual assets.
In our American Government, it's just me, you, and the chickens.
We
are unified by our common goal which is nothing more or less than the
Common Good, which we hope to achieve by the consistent application of
Good Will and Common Sense.
The
Corporate Government Model seeks to dictate and control and rule over
everyone from cradle to grave. It seeks to farm us out like farm
animals, using our assets for their benefit. It results in war
profiteering and war-like competition, eternally dividing and conquering
and crippling mankind. It operates on corporate profits and corporate
cronyism and embraces special interest groups. Their private corporate
elections are controlled by unelected political parties and determined
by unelected Electors.
Our
American Government promotes the freedom and well-being and actual
security of every American. We don't interfere in your privacy, don't
dictate your health decisions, and don't pretend to be your Nanny. We
educate, we empower, we liberate. We are unified by Nature, by our
common needs, and by our common concerns. We promote the Public
Interest and the Public Good and the Public Law which means we provide
services that everyone needs and everyone has access to, instead of
pandering to lobbyists and special interests. Our Public Elections are
simple affairs that are completely open to eligible candidates who are
not selected by political parties and who are directly elected by the
people they serve.
With these differences clearly in mind, check yourselves.
Have
you fallen victim to your own indoctrination? Are you unconsciously
falling back into the Corporate Mind Set? Are you creating the
same-old-same-old Corporate Mess? Or boldly embracing the American
Government you are heir to?
When
you catch yourself falling back on your indoctrination -- correct it.
If necessary, apologize and admit your mistake(s). And go forward with
renewed determination to restore the American Government as it is meant
to be.
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