another sign the machine is rotting

[LHX]

the machine relies on being able to control people

the machine is driving people insane thru entertainment and drugs (of all sorts - mental / physical)

insane people cannot be controlled


thus
the machine contributes to its demise
and
the demise of the machine is imminent

and messy

[The Good Reverend Roger]

the machine relies on being able to control people

the machine is driving people insane thru entertainment and drugs (of all sorts - mental / physical)

insane people cannot be controlled


thus
the machine contributes to its demise
and
the demise of the machine is imminent

and messy

Meh.  That's happened many, many times before.  And The Machine(tm) waits patiently for things to stabilize, and then subverts and dominates the new paradigm.

Historical examples upon request.

[Cain]

Insane people can be controlled...with the right drugs and stimuli.  Also, all these crazy people running about the place are just another excuse for more control from on high.

[Baron Von Stevenstein]

Insane people can be controlled...with the right drugs and stimuli

or they can be rounded up and shot. which has happend before

[Cain]

Yep, but only by people who had as irrational inputs as those who they ordered to be killed.  Its far better to find a use for them, a threat, leverage...as every good leader knows, its fear that controls the people.  Of who is nearly irrelevant, so long as the outcome can be manipulated...

[Baron Von Stevenstein]

so mental slavary?

[Cain]

Nope, just manipulation.  Its predetermined buttons and reactions, press A and get B.  Rarely ever fails either, because its built on a basic element of human nature.  Machiavelli was smart, but that fascist scumbag Carl Schmidt (and by extension, Nietzsche) hit the nail on the head.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Nope, just manipulation.  Its predetermined buttons and reactions, press A and get B.  Rarely ever fails either, because its built on a basic element of human nature.  Machiavelli was smart, but that fascist scumbag Carl Schmidt (and by extension, Nietzsche) hit the nail on the head.

For example, giving them a "choice" between two "opposing" political parties...

[Cain]

Thats one of the old good ones, yeah.  Control the choices was the favourite trick of Henry Kissinger, for example.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Thats one of the old good ones, yeah.  Control the choices was the favourite trick of Henry Kissinger, for example.

Ah, good old Henry...stuck by The Man, til the bitter end.

After The Machine cast Nixon aside, Henry and Dick would wander the halls of the White House, swilling gin and begging the portraits of presidents past for guidance.

Nixon went down, of course, in the end, and Kissinger was left to bitterly curse John Dean, out in the desert.

Needless to say, I have a soft spot for the man.

[Cain]

He understood power incredibly well, which was most of the problem really.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

He understood power incredibly well, which was most of the problem really.

Problem?

TGRR,
Doesn't understand.

[Cain]

He understood power incredibly well, which was most of the problem really.

Problem?

TGRR,
Doesn't understand.

Well, I say problem, you say good times, one normally leads to the other if given time anyway...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

He understood power incredibly well, which was most of the problem really.

Problem?

TGRR,
Doesn't understand.

Well, I say problem, you say good times, one normally leads to the other if given time anyway...

NOBODY is allowed to have fun anymore.

Hell, you get caught with a few grams of smallpox, and they throw you in jail.

What the HELL is going on in this country?

[LHX]

how do any historical examples accomodate the intranet?


also
who are the younger people able to escape the drug-induced insanity coming into replace the current people in power?

reagan got alzheimers
bush look like he crackin down