The solution to everything: slavery to the StateJon Rappoport The incurably nave believe the State is beneficent. The government is kind. The government knows what to do. The government will solve societys ills if we let it. Of course, the government, in the form of NSA, is spying on everybody all the timebut you see, thats not really the government. Its a rogue element. Sure it is. And rainbows will appear at any moment and the people of Earth will experience a galactic frequency that eradicates all impulses toward conflict. To put it another way, people see what they want to see. Ahem, when I say government, I dont mean the CIA or the Pentagon or the FDA or the Presidents national security team, or fraudulent federal scientists, or the whole lot of venal people in Congress, or corrupt prosecutors and judges or invasive bureaucrats or paper-pushing money-sucking desk jockeys. Of course not. Government is an idea in the mind of God. And when you think about it, the NSA watches over us to make sure we stay on the path of righteousness. Its absurd to be suspicious of the State. The authors of the Constitution, who tried to limit central authority, were a bunch of paranoids. We need more government, not less. As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only doing their duty, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. (The Lion and the Unicorn, 1941) Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by our side. (Notes on Nationalism, 1945) A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. Then, again, every major change in policy demands a corresponding change of doctrine and a revaluation of prominent historical figures. (The Prevention of Literature, 1946) But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plentys figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. (1984, chapter 4) Dont you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. (1984, chapter 5) But you see, these are all old Orwell remarks. Now we have a different kind of State. Itsgovernment. Yes. The State isnt government. Aha. The State exists in places other than America. In America, we have government. Yes, thats right. Two different animals. One is repressive, and the other is earnest. (More rainbows for the sentimentalists.) Here are quotes about the State from Aldous Huxleys 1932 novel, Brave New World: Till at last the childs mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the childs mind. And not the childs mind only. The adults mind tooall his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decidesmade up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions! (Chapter 2) Every one belongs to every one else. (Chapter 3) Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder these poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. (Chapter 3) Everyone works for every one else. (Chapter 5) Dont you wish you were free, Lenina? But again, Huxleys remarks are about the aspirations and victories of the State, which doesnt exist in America. Never has. Jon Rappoport is the author of two explosive collections, The Matrix Revealed and Exit From the Matrix, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free emails at www.nomorefakenews.com 