The average voter is a moron. He believes what he reads in newspapers, feeds his imagination and lulls his repressions on the cinemas, and hopes to break away from his slavery by football pools, cross-word prizes, or spotting the winner of the 3.30.
He is ignorant as no illiterate peasant is ignorant; he has no power of independent thought. He is the prey of panic.
But he has the vote.
The men in power can only govern by stampeding him into wars, playing on his fears and prejudices until he acquiesces in repressive legislation against his obvious interests, playing on his vanity until he is totally blind to his own misery and serfdom.
The alternative method is undisguised dragooning.
In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.
This desperate resort to archaic weapons is the heritage of hypocrisy. The theories of Divine Right, aristocratic superiority, the moral order of Nature, are all to-day exploded bluffs. Even those of us who believe in supernatural sanctions for our privileges to browbeat and rob the people no longer delude ourselves with the thought that our victims share our superstitions.
Even dictators understand this. Mussolini has tried to induce the ghost of Ancient Rome to strut the stage in the image of Julius Cæsar; Hitler has invented a farrago of nonsense about Nordics and Aryans; nobody even pretends to believe either, except through the “Will-to-believe.”
And the presence is visibly breaking down everywhere.
They cannot even be galvanised with spasm of pseudo-activity, as still occasionally happens with the dead toads of superstition…
This was from a pamphlet he distributed on the streets, and I’m not going into the problems that may or not, are or aren’t, in the whole thing, but this post seems relevant, lucid, and veritable.
We’ve all fallen for some media/governmental wtfery, myself included. The issue is correcting it.
From a historical point, I found it immensely interesting. I went to the author’s wiki and was equally fascinated he came to the USA to paint, during the first world war, posisitioned himself as pro Germany, while spying for the UK, all the while.
A lot of people have a lot of miscommunication about him, including me, because I’ve always been under the impression that his spying wasn’t of any importance. And maybe it wasn’t, but that send worth investigating, if I ever have time
Aside, I’m interested to know what sort of anarchy the pamphlet is advocating, or the closest fit.
https://hermetic.com/crowley/the-scientific-solution-of-the-problem-of-government/index
He is ignorant as no illiterate peasant is ignorant; he has no power of independent thought. He is the prey of panic.
But he has the vote.
The alternative method is undisguised dragooning.
In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.
This desperate resort to archaic weapons is the heritage of hypocrisy. The theories of Divine Right, aristocratic superiority, the moral order of Nature, are all to-day exploded bluffs. Even those of us who believe in supernatural sanctions for our privileges to browbeat and rob the people no longer delude ourselves with the thought that our victims share our superstitions.
Even dictators understand this. Mussolini has tried to induce the ghost of Ancient Rome to strut the stage in the image of Julius Cæsar; Hitler has invented a farrago of nonsense about Nordics and Aryans; nobody even pretends to believe either, except through the “Will-to-believe.”
And the presence is visibly breaking down everywhere.
They cannot even be galvanised with spasm of pseudo-activity, as still occasionally happens with the dead toads of superstition…
This was from a pamphlet he distributed on the streets, and I’m not going into the problems that may or not, are or aren’t, in the whole thing, but this post seems relevant, lucid, and veritable.
We’ve all fallen for some media/governmental wtfery, myself included. The issue is correcting it.
From a historical point, I found it immensely interesting. I went to the author’s wiki and was equally fascinated he came to the USA to paint, during the first world war, posisitioned himself as pro Germany, while spying for the UK, all the while.
A lot of people have a lot of miscommunication about him, including me, because I’ve always been under the impression that his spying wasn’t of any importance. And maybe it wasn’t, but that send worth investigating, if I ever have time
Aside, I’m interested to know what sort of anarchy the pamphlet is advocating, or the closest fit.