The stifling of any rebellion in advance must not be taken violently - Archaic methods like Hitler's are clearly out of place - It is enough to create a collective conditioning so strong that even the idea of rebellion no longer comes to the minds of men - The ideal would be to train individuals from birth by limiting their innate biological capacities...
Then we would continue the conditioning by drastically reducing the level and quality of education to bring it back to a form of professional integration - The uneducated individual has only a limited horizon of thought and the more his thought is limited to material, mediocre concerns, the less he can revolt - We need to make access to knowledge more difficult and let the elitists dig the gap between the people and science, letting information aimed at the general public anesthetize any subversive content. Especially no philosophy. Here again, we need to use persuasion and not direct violence: we will massively broadcast, via TV, stupid entertainment, always pricked by the emotional, instinctive. We will occupy the mind with what is vain and playful. It's good with chatter and nonstop music to prevent the mind from the question of thinking.
We put sexuality first in human interest.
As a social anesthesiologist, there is nothing better. In general, we will ensure that the seriousness of existence is forbidden, making a mockery of everything of high value, maintaining a constant excuse of lightness; that the euphoria of advertising, of consumption, becomes the standard of human happiness and the model of freedom.
Thus, conditions will induce such an integration of self that the only fear (which will have to be maintained) will be exclusion from the system, and thus not having access to the material conditions necessary for happiness.
The mass man, thus produced, must be treated as he is: a product, a calf, and must be monitored as a herd should be.
Anything that will allow his lucidity, his critical mind, to fall asleep is socially good; anything that threatens to wake him up must be fought, ridiculed, stifled....
Any doctrine that challenges the system must first be named as subversive and terrorist and then those who support it must be dealt with accordingly.
Günther Anders
P.S..
Text appeared on social media, could not trace it or find the original link. However, the ideas are certainly interesting and thought-provoking in the light of today's times.
J.Š. 13.12.2021
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