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Chapter 7 : LAW AND CIVILIZATION
The other major area of regulation in the master-slave system of civilization is through government in the form of the law. Law represents the rules of conduct for the domesticated human animals. The masters, those who determine the laws of the time, act outside of the law. They do whatever they can get away with in order to achieve their ends. The laws are not intended for them. They are intended to ensure optimal functioning of the civilization system so as to enhance production by the domesticated human animals. Period. From the beginning of civilization until today it has been so.
The key concept, which is difficult for a domesticated human animal to understand, is that the zookeepers recognize that there is no-one in a higher power position than them. The only thing that stops them from doing whatever they please at any time is that they may be unable to get away with their whims. Even the domesticated humans have their limits of what they can produce or abuse that they will tolerate.
In addition, although to some significant degree the masters do work together to consolidate their positions of power, they are engaged in an endless struggle for dominance among themselves. This inevitably leads them to look for ways to undermine their rivals, which might at times be through public censure in the form of the law. Realistically, however, they have means of ensuring different and less punishment for themselves. But those who have reached the highest echelons of power remain immune, so long as they stay at that level.
After ten thousand years of civilization, the legal system has been able to adapt to the changing reality that it has created. The hunter and gatherer option has steadily diminished as a realistic consideration and, with the passage of time, the domesticated humans have become more and more accustomed to life in the cage. Those who truly could not tolerate it were eliminated. Those who remain can generally not imagine life outside of the cage and so while they complain, they have become its defenders.
Due to this, the strong measures that used to be required to break the wills of the semi-domesticated humans have largely become unnecessary. Most people just do what they are told and hope not to get into any trouble. Even those who do rebel still operate within the system, simply striving to get a bigger share at mealtime in the cage.
As the wild human spirit has been sequentially broken from generation to generation, it has become possible to allow the slaves to have 'rights' and 'freedom'. When the master knows that the dog will not run away or bite his hand but has become codependent, the need for the whip and the chain diminish.
The deadness of the majority becomes the most powerful tool of all to suppress human animality. Although getting only scraps off of the table, the slaves will destroy fellow slaves who threaten the stability of the system. The masters find less and less need to police the slaves as the slaves now do it themselves. The masters are now so secure in their positions that they even use their opponents as an entertainment resource to be utilized to generate more gold for themselves. Their trump card is that they know that everyone fundamentally buys into the cage system and that no one promotes an agenda outside of the cage. Therefore, everyone can be and is bought.
If legal systems existed to ensure the respect for the natural laws of life, they would have as their first action the dismantling of civilization itself. The very nature of the laws of civilized societies are codes of conduct created to maintain an unnatural system, the system of domesticated humans.
Inevitably, the conduct desired is such that inhibits their natural animality and instead turns them into obedient servile creatures. One only has to enter into a court of law to observe the typical demeanor of the judge, the face of the law, speaking down to the others in the room. The intelligent lawyer or court contestant quickly learns to behave towards the judge in a submissive manner if it wishes to win in this forum.
The legal system is set up so that individuals 'do not take the law into their own hands'. Ostensibly, this approach was developed to protect the weak and to guarantee a fair trial to all. Anyone who has had anything to do with the judicial system appreciates that justice and fairness have nothing to do with the law. Individuals should not 'take the law into their own hands' so that individuals do not allow themselves the idea that they could actually do anything important in their own lives themselves and certainly not without the sanction of the masters or society (society now being the mass of human animals complicit with the masters' agenda). The annihilation of the individual is paramount to the maintenance of the caged system.
Part of the important transformation that has taken place through civilization is the rise of the large group. Our species has always functioned as herd animals, which has been a very important factor in our ability to be domesticated in the first place. However, as stated earlier, the group used to be made up of individuals sharing one's genetic material and was so small in size that individuals did have a real impact upon the group's behavior. In today's immense societal groups, the individual becomes completely insignificant and is an impotent and dispensable item.
The more the individual considers oneself in this manner, the more effectively the masses of individuals can be manipulated off of their genetic agenda and encouraged to accept unhealthy values.
The law acts to look after the 'common good' (i.e the maintenance of the status quo) and, with the real power of physical force behind the laws, individuals are trained to think of their actions from this perspective first of all. Therefore, instead of thinking what is best for me and the well-being of my genetic material, I develop an internal censor which teaches me to only allow ideas that might be acceptable for the common good. The ability to even consider one's own needs and best interests is gradually eradicated, and the cult of selflessness and collectivism flourishes. What religion has encouraged the law enforces.
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