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unfortunately, the value of these readers lies in their intelligence and not in their
numerical strength, an unhappy state of affairs in a period where wisdom counts for
nothing and majorities for everything.” If not craftily waylaid, this third group of people
stand to acquire some real comprehension of the otherwise carefully hidden from the masses
in plainsight, conspiratorial forces which actually shape their world.
These rebels – referred to as the 'malcontents' by H. G. Wells in his famous book “New World
Order” – can also figure out that the visible rulers whom the public elects with such gravitas
every so often to run their country on their behalf in a momentous celebration of 'democracy'
which in reality only affords the demos the choice between twiddledee and twiddledum in a
carefully choreographed Hegelian Dialectic, are actually not their public servants. To hide the
fact that these elected psychopaths are really still only the errand boys and girls of an invisible
ruling-oligarchy, manufacturing dissent to mislead the energies of the handful of thinking and
conscionable peoples has become a necessary instrument of statecraft.
This deception typically entails manufacturing dissent chiefs who can craftily take their
respective flock, by a circuitous route, to the same pastures as the mainstream public. I.e., the
net impact of their celebrated dissent in derailing the manufactured consent among the
masses being exactly zero. These crafty dissent-chiefs, fortunately enough, are also rather
trivial to identify. Their main modus operandi appears to be to oppose power while still
echoing its core message!
These traffickers in 'truth' – i.e., absurdities – will often truthfully describe the visible
puppetshows and bravely challenge empire on what is already known and overt, such as its
criminal bombings and maiming of other nations. But they will also, for instance as in this war
on terror, also echo one or more of the primemover axioms of empire which ab initio enables
empire's “imperial mobilization”! Namely, that some 'Ali Baba' magically pulled off 911 from his
almighty perch in the Hindu Kush, that Islamofascism is a genuine threat to mankind, that Al
Qaeeda is out to impose its will on the West and is being aided and abetted from Pakistan-Iran
nexus, etc. Because these dissent-artists hector empire in its killing of innocent civilians, they
often attract big audiences among the type-2 category people identified by Hitler, “those who
no longer believe anything;”. According to Hitler, these were formerly type-1 who changed
their allegiances from unquestioningly believing establishment's dogmas, to blindly opposing
them. They now unquestioningly follow their new leaders, the artfully fabricated dissent-chiefs.
But they also attract some type-3, fortunately only temporarily, since fabricated dissent is
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