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Aim for the head

Started by Cain, January 31, 2006, 06:48:08 PM

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Cain

"Surrounded by Moslem maniacs on one side and Christian maniacs on the other, the wise Lord Hassan [al-Sabbah] preserved his people and his cult by bringing the art of assassination to aesthetic perfection. With just a few daggers strategically placed in exactly the right throats, he found Wisdom's alternative to war, and preserved the peoples by killing their leaders. Truly, his was a most exemplary life of grandmotherly kindness."
-Uber Strip Schnipp-Schnapp, Weltspielen and Funfwissenschaft, Adam Weishaupt

9/10 out of 10 fights are instantly finished by a strike to the central nervous system, thats to say the head or spine.
- Canadian cop and self defence teacher Darren Laur.

Often the art of Operation MindFuck and Discordian warfare against the external Greyfaces has been described as that of ontological guerrilla warfare.  We are the secret slugs among the cabbage patch of humanity, waging our war of attrition against the forces of destructive order and the cabbages themselves we rely on for our cover?

Have we ever considered a better strategy?  Revolution can be a funny and complex situation.  More often, it occurs from the bottom up, with a vanguard carefully directing it.  But there is also the revolution from above, where those in power force changes down the stages of society often, but not always, to consolidate their own position.  Reforms are put in place, changes are made and what seemed impossible becomes normal...

Instead of ontological guerrillas we need ontological assassins.  Just like the Assassins of al-Sabbah and the later anarchist movements who modelled their tactics on them, causing every prince in Europe to sit less securely on their thrones.  Conversion, confusion...whatever the aim we should be trying for the people at the very top, as much as those at the bottom, if not more so.  Strategy works because of cohesion and in this ever more centralized (yet interdependent) world, that cohesion can be found to be in the hands of very few individuals indeed.  The media becomes another weapon, turning our attack into something widespread, further effecting more people.

A MindFuck here, a tossed Golden Apple there could be made much more effective when attacking nodes, as opposed to the outer fringes of order in society.  An institution, religious group or government based around a charismatic central leader, or group of leaders, is instantly more susceptible, plus it has the added advantage of not working well on Discordians and other decentralized/chaotic groups of people.

We could even get some friend in higher places who see things from our point of view.  Sure, its not like we want to create a Discordian country, unlike some religions I could name *cough*JudaismIslamChristianityHindus*cough*.  But having friends and access never hurt anyone either, as well as some people who actually start thinking for themselves and want others around them to also do that, AND have the resources to do it better than we could ever hope to.

Of course, OM already does this, to a degree.  By aiming for the heads instead of the bodies, we leave a lot less in the way of dying people and ,ÄúDiscordian inquisitions,Äù (though I wouldn't trust any Discordian jihadis with sharp instruments, for their own safety if nothing else).  Learning how to get inside someones head and make them see things another way is a valuable and useful tool that should be put to greater use.  But Discordianism cannot expect any significant change or yuks to come about from low level attacks.  Higher the target, the higher the return.  But I'm just some schmuck who needs to stop reading goddamn military history books so much, so don't take it too seriously.

LMNO


East Coast Hustle

we've obviously been reading the same books.

10/10

BTW, That new Greene book hit the shelves yet?
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

Cain

Quote from: East Coast Hustlewe've obviously been reading the same books.

10/10

BTW, That new Greene book hit the shelves yet?

March was the last I heard.  As soon as its out I get it delivered.  And you'd be right if you're reading The New Global Terrorism by Charles Kegley.  Not an inspired book, but the section on anarchists and terrorism was interesting enough to make me think.

East Coast Hustle

haven't read that one yet, but I DID see it in the Borders in Bangor and make a note to buy it next time I'm there. I think you've mentioned it to me before.
Rabid Colostomy Hole Jammer of the Coming Apocalypse™

The Devil is in the details; God is in the nuance.


Some yahoo yelled at me, saying 'GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH', and I thought, "I'm feeling generous today.  Why not BOTH?"

Cain

Maybe, its abit expensive for what you get though.  Oh no, it was Strategy in the Contemporary World I recommended.

Dags

Quote from: Cain
Learning how to get inside someones head and make them see things another way is a valuable and useful tool that should be put to greater use.

Helping them out of their heads would make room for someone much cooler to live in there.  8)

QuoteBut I'm just some schmuck who needs to stop reading goddamn military history books so much, so don't take it too seriously.

I rent space in my brain for some schmucks; cheap, actually free of charge... now that I think about it.

Anyways, it's more of an insane asylum than a condo :twisted:

- Dags

notes:
1.Researching subversive literature pointed to this >>++<< Maybe aiming to old?
2. In a way / words act / words can kill or heal / build or destroy
3. I just wrote that thinking about something else.
4. I've been reading up on referent theory and use theory in regards to meaning.
5. OK then.

Shibboleet The Annihilator


Irreverend Hugh, KSC

YOU and ME have obviously been training under the same lieutenants. Shit. We could have used you back in the nineties in Belfast. Just saying.
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