hus, we can see that as a species we have a very strong tendency – I would say due to how we are raised, rather than what we are – to justify our immoral actions through appeals to morality, which is the mind-bending corruption that always threatens to drown the world in blood.
Also, as we can see in the above example, in essence we justify our actions according to moral principles because we want to commit
immoral actions.
Because we want to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, we must pretend that we are the innocent victims of an unprovoked attack.
In other words, the end is evil; the means is false ethical “justifications.” In this way, the power of morality is enslaved to the service of evil. Morality thus has such astounding power not only because it creates our capacity for virtue, but also because it creates our capacity for evil.
It truly is a double-edged sword. Evil is impossible without moral justification. This is why endless propaganda is heaped upon the breaking minds of children by the state in terms of education, by religion in terms of indoctrination, and by families in terms of hypocritical moral “instruction.”
The reason that philosophy is so essential is that if we don’t use it, it is used against us in the service of evil to enable the murder and enslavement – literally – of billions.
There is a gun in the room called “ethics,” and either we take it up and fight for our freedom, or we surrender it to evildoers and remain their prisoners forever.
WARNING SIGNS
One of the greatest warning signs of an impending attack is hearing a compelling “moral mythology” spilling out from someone’s lips.
For instance, it is impossible to listen to Hitler’s ranting oratory about the evils of the Slavic and Jewish races, and the need for defence of the Fatherland without understanding that these “moral” theories were the real weapons that he wielded – the true motive power of the war machine he launched across Europe, North Africa and Russia.
In the same way, when you hear Americans saying: “Here we were, as a country, minding our own business, when out of the blue, these goddamn Muslims attacked us for no reason!” you know that these words are mere preludes to evil.
These kinds of fantasy tales are what truly slips the “safety” off on the revolver. The immortal line from Hanns Johst's play Schlageter (first performed for Hitler's birthday in 1933): “Wenn ich Kultur höre ... entsichere ich meinen Browning!” (‘When I hear “culture,” I release the safety catch on my Browning [revolver pistol]!’) – resonates because it contains a fundamental truth.
“Culture” is a necessary prerequisite for violence.
In other words, violence – particularly institutional violence – requires
false moral justifications – that culture is, in its essence, a set of ethical mythologies.
ETHICAL MYTHOLOGIES
Ethical mythologies are moral fairy tales created and inflicted through repetition, social praise and attacks, which are useful to those in power because they justify the extension of their power over the individual. The table below lists some common social mythologies of the Western world, and the translation of those theories into practice.
Myth Moral Result
The Great Depression was the result of free- market capitalism.
Without government control of the economy, massive disasters result.
Increased government control over the economy.
The free market system was only saved by the start of World War II.
The free market profits from the murder of millions.
Increased government control over the economy – particularly the “evil corporations.”
Without government schools, children – particularly poor children – would remain uneducated. Societies as a whole – particularly parents – care nothing about poor children – only the government does.
Near-total control over the indoctrination of children for almost 15 formative years.
Democracy is the ideal political system.
You control the government.
The government controls you.
The Civil War in the United States was fought to free the slaves.
Private citizens and the free market profited from slavery; only the government could free the slaves.
Massive increases in the power of the federal government.
If Western
governments had not fought Nazism, we’d all be speaking German right now.
Governments are essential for protecting freedom.
Governments destroy freedom.
Governments must control the money supply; otherwise there would be wild economic instability.
The government has your best interests at heart; voluntary private interactions are
exploitive.
Wild economic instability, massive national debts and endless inflation.
Governments must intervene to provide medical care for their citizens.
Doctors will rob you blind. You will die of disease in the gutter.
Massive increases in the price of health care, utter dependence upon the State in medical matters.
As we can see, all of these cultural mythologies are put forward prior to massive expansions of state power – in fact, the net increase in violence that results from expanded state power is only possible because these moral “justifications” are put forward.
When you examine culture in its essence, it is an endless series of false and destructive moral positions inflicted upon children through repetition, social ostracism, and teacher, peer and parental hostility. Culture is a form of slave programming wherein knee-jerk emotional defences are inflicted upon the natural personality, which cause people to automatically cough up moral justifications for their enslavement – without thought, without evidence, without rationality, without basis – and to their endless detriment.
CULTURAL PROGRAMMING AND PREDICTABILITY
When you bring up the coercive nature of government to your fellow citizens, the responses that you will receive are utterly predictable. “Taxation is force,” you say – and hear the exact same arguments back, every single time:
• It’s not force because we get to vote!
• It’s not force because we have the choice to leave!
• It’s not force because no one has ever pointed a gun in my face! • It’s not force because I’m happy to pay! – etc.
Culture is nothing more – or less – than a series of moral lies told to children, the purpose of which is to get them to happily lick the boots of their oppressors.
If slaves perceive themselves as the equals of their masters, the relationship becomes simply one of physical dominance – which the masters can never win, since by definition they must be greatly outnumbered by their slaves (otherwise, being a master would scarcely be economically productive!).
destruction, when a knight could never stand against ten determined peasants, and a slave-owner had to sleep at some point.
Thus physical dominance alone cannot be used to create and maintain a slave population. Certainly, the threat of physical violence is always
required, but it must be approved of by the slaves in order to remain economically efficient and effective.
Culture is an economically-convenient set of ethical fictions that lower the total cost of ownership for using force against innocent individuals. It is, fundamentally, what creates and enables hegemonic and hierarchical power structures.
Thus you must get the slaves to believe amongst themselves that slavery is:
1. Not in fact slavery. 2. For their own good. 3. A moral ideal.
4. And that all possibilities other than slavery would result in endless evil and destruction.
Such is the power of morality that if you can program children to revere slavery as a moral ideal, they will never even think of becoming free. Define freedom as “slavery,” and slavery as “freedom,” and not only will your slaves never even think of becoming free, but they will in fact attack any other slave for even talking about freedom.
It is the base tragedy of our species that the power of morality is only truly understood by those who use it in the service of evil.
SLAVE-ON-SLAVE VIOLENCE
Owning slaves only works if you do not have to bother yourself too much about controlling your slaves – since that is time-consuming, expensive, and threatens the profits.
No, slavery is far more profitable – in fact, it only can be profitable – if, instead of having to expend time and energy attacking your slaves, you can program the slaves to attack each other.
And this is the purpose of “culture.”