The Two Step Con

SEE HERE You may not have thought about it. The goal of government as C.S. Lewis says in his famous inaugural address at Cambridge in 1954 de descriptione temporum:
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In all previous ages that I can think of the principal aim of rulers, except at rare and short intervals, was to keep their subjects quiet, to forestall or extinguish widespread excitement and persuade people to attend quietly to their several occupations. And on the whole their subjects agreed with them. They even prayed (in words that sound curiously old-fashioned) to be able to live "a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty" and "pass their time in rest and quietness".
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See what the traditional goal of a good society is. "... to live "a peaceable life in all godliness and honesty" and "pass their time in rest and quietness". ...


Lewis goes on to say:"But now the organisation of mass excitement seems to be almost the normal organ of political power. We live in an age of "appeal if drives", and "campaigns". Our rulers have become like schoolmasters and are always demanding "keenness". And you notice that I am guilty of a slight archaism in calling them "rulers". "Leaders" is the modem word. I have suggested elsewhere that this is a deeply significant change of vocabulary. Our demand upon them has changed no less than theirs on us. For of a ruler one asks justice, incorruption, diligence, perhaps clemency; of a leader, dash, initiative, and (I suppose) what people call "magnetism" or "personality"."
Notice in particular the phrase: "... But now the organisation of mass excitement seems to be almost the normal organ of political power. ..." After all, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. But I forgot the two step: 1) Create or exploit a crisis (now when you create it you must obfuscate the fact that it was you who created it in the first place, so make it very complicated and blame it on an appropriate victim class. i.e. big business, greedy insurance companies, tobacco companies, evil oil corporations, terrorists, ... whatever works. Then 2) use it as a pretext to generate a "solution" which doesn't have to solve the problem just say it does, and then if it get worse just say, they were greedier or more evil than we thought. Well we have just such an institution. It has grown ever more corrupt with time and now it takes several million dollars to get admitted to the club.
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