Gun and Boot Dialectics
I have a blog post on this (minds.com/Gendo_Ikari/bl…)
But I'll give a "quick" run down on the ideas that I'm presenting here.
How do you want to control a population? Do you want to use the Boot of society? Or the gun of the State?
I have a blog post on this (minds.com/Gendo_Ikari/bl…)
But I'll give a "quick" run down on the ideas that I'm presenting here.
How do you want to control a population? Do you want to use the Boot of society? Or the gun of the State?
The boot: this is using societal controls to steer a population to a desired ideological end point. It's building a hegemony around all of the cultural institutions and pushing your position at all times. The left is very good at this (2)
The gun: it's the state. It's overt power, which is both bad and good. Good, cause it's effective. Bad cause it gives people a rallying point to fight against. The Gun should be used last, it should not be a 1st resort. and I'll explain why (3)
Society is like a pressure cooker, if it has no exists it becomes a bomb. The 1st amend and co are those release values. You can control people by allowing them to believe that they are being heard to get them to be complacent. If you get people to police each other (4)
then you've shifted the blame from your own center of power to the general populace. You can manipulate and control society from a far, without having to draw attention to yourself as you guide society to a desired end. (final)
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