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<xml><p> CELINE'S LAWS
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by <ent type='ORG'>Hagbard</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Celine</ent></p>
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<p> As every thinking person has noticed, our national life has
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become increasingly weird and surrealistic. The waiting lines at
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banks and post offices are growing longer all the time, even
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though demographers tell us US population is no longer rising.
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The street signs more often than not say WALK on the red and
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<ent type='PERSON'>DON</ent>"T WALK on the green. You can't get a plumber on the
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weekends. Nobody has been able to explain the cattle mutilations
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yet. Every survey shows that the price of consumer goods, the
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number of violent crimes, and the eerie popularity of THE GONG
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SHOW are ominously accelerating.
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I believe I have found the explanation these distressing
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trends. Needless to say, I cannot present, in a short article,
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all the evidence which I have accumulated in three decades of
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careful metasociological research; that will have to await the
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publication of my three-volume study, "Why Everybody Is Going
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Bonkers." Here I can only mention the thousands of depth
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interviewws, the innumerable flowcharts and helix-matrix
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equations, the vast files of computer readouts, the I CHING
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divinations, and other rigorous scientific techniques used in
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developing what I modestly call Celine's Laws of Chaos, Discord
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and Confusion.
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Celine's First Law is that <ent type='ORG'>National Security</ent> is the chief
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cause of national insecurity!
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That may sound like a paradox, but I will explain it at one.
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Every secret police agency must be monitored by an elite corps
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of secret-police-of-the-second-order. There are numerous reasons
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for this, but three are especially noteworthy.
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NATIONAL SECURITY IS THE CHIEF CAUSE OF NATIONAL INSECURITY!!!
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*******************************************************************************</p>
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<p>1). Infiltration of the secret police, for the purpose of
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subversion, will always be a prime goal of internal
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revolutionaries. This is an ordinary part of the spy-counterspy
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game. There is nothing <ent type='ORG'>Weather Underground</ent> would like better
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than having a few agents in the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> or <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>, for the same reasons
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that the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> or <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> would like to have a few agents in Weather
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Underground.</p>
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<p>2). Such infiltration will also be a prime goal of hostile
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foreign powers, for the same reasons.</p>
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<p> Please note that these are simple facts of the secret-police
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game, well-known even to the general public, the subject of many
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ingenious plots in popular spy films, and not particularly
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alarming...yet. Nonetheless, the seeds of Chaos, Discord,
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Confusion, and <ent type='ORG'>Paranoia</ent> are already here, for the simple reason
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that once a human being develops the habits of worry and
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suspicion, he or she finds increasing justifications for more
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worry and more suspicion. For instance, <ent type='PERSON'>Richard</ent> Q. (not his real
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initial), one of my interview subjects, became concerned, after
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ten years in the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>, with the possibility of infiltration by
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"extraterrestrial" agents. He was eventually retired when he
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began to claim that demons in the form of dogs wanted him to
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assassinate <ent type='PERSON'>Laverne</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Shirley</ent>. </p>
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<p>3). Secret-police officials acquire fantastic capacities to
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blackmail and intimidate others in goverment.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Stalin</ent> executed three chiefs of his secret police in a row,
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because of this danger. One of my informants claims that every
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president since the <ent type='ORG'>National Security</ent> Act was passed in 1947 has
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learned how to have sexual intercourse without making a single
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audible sound, because of the possible electronic eavesdroppers.
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As <ent type='PERSON'>Nixion</ent> says so wistfully on the <ent type='EVENT'>Watergate</ent> transcripts, "Well,
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<ent type='PERSON'>Hoover</ent> performed. He would have fought. That was the point. He
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would have defied a few people. He would have scared them to
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death. HE HAS A FILE ON EVERYBODY!" <special>Caps added</special>. Thus, those
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who employ secret-police organizations MUST monitor them th be
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sure they are not acquiring too much power.
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In <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States today, the <ent type='PERSON'>superelite</ent> that monitors the
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<ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> is the <ent type='ORG'>National Security</ent> Agency. ( And a group called "The
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<ent type='ORG'>Store</ent>" monitors the <ent type='ORG'>NSA</ent>).
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Here is where a sinister infinite regress enters the game.
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Any such elite, second or third order secret-police agency must
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be, according to the above pragmatic and necessary rules, subject
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to infiltration by native subversives or hostile foreign powers,
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or to acquiring "too much power" in the opinion of its masters.
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(It may even be subject, if <ent type='PERSON'>Richard</ent> Q. was correct in his
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anxieties, to extraterrestrial manipulation). And so, it, too,
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must be monitored by a secret police of the third order.</p>
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<p> But this third-order secret-police (such as Nixon's notorious
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"plumbers", or more currently, "The <ent type='ORG'>Store</ent>"). is also subject to
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infiltration or to acquiring too much power...and thus, with
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relentless logic, the infinite regress builds. Once a goverment
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has n orders of secret police spying on each other, all are
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potentially suspect, and to be safe a secret police of order n+1
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must be created. And so on, forever.</p>
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<p>******************************************
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* THUS WHO EMPLOY SECRET *
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* POLICE MUST MONITOR THEM TO *
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* BE SURE THEY ARE NOT ACQUIRING *
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* TOO MUCH POWER. *
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****************************************** </p>
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<p> In practice, of course, this cannot really regress to
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infinity, but only to the point where every other citizen, or
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until the funding runs out, whichever comes first.</p>
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<p> <ent type='ORG'>National Security</ent> in practice, then, must always fall short of
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the logically ideal infinite regress which we have shown is
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necessary to the achievement of its goal. In that gap between
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the ideal of "One nation under survillance, with wiretaps and
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mail covers for all" andthe strictly limited real situation of
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finite funding, there is ample encouragement for <ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>as of all
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sorts to flourish. In short, every government that employs
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secret-police agencies must grow more insecure, not more secure,
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as the strength, versatility, and power of the secret-police
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agencies grow.
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For instance, a certain left-wing nation which has employed
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secret-police agencies for 61 years has now reached the point
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where the leaders are terrified of painters and poets. In
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another, right-wing nation infested with secret-police agencies,
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several purges have been caused by three practical jokers who
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regularly call middle-rank officials on the phone and talk in
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what appears to be a code. The secret police, of course, are no
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fools, and are aware that this might be what it in fact is, a
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form of anarchist humor; but they can't be sure.</p>
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<p> What usually happens in such cases is this: an official
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receives one of these mystery calls, saying perhaps "Pawn to
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queen rook five. No wife, no horse, no mustache. A boy has never
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wept nor dashed a thousand kim." He knows immediately that
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surveillance upon him will be increased tenfold. In the next few
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days, while memories of all his mistakes, small bribes,
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incautious remarks, and other incriminating events haunt his
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imagination, he observes the increased surveillance, and begins
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to suspect even the most loyal of his subordinates of watching
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him with eyes that miss nothing and to give a sinister
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interpertation to everything. Within ten days, he usually
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attempts to contact a foreign goverment to seek political
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sanctuary, and the secret-police net closes on him.</p>
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<p> By the same process of worry leading to more worry and
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suspicion leading to more suspicion, the very act of joining a
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ecret-police organization will eventually turn a man or woman
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into a clinical <ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>; in layman's terms, "bananas" or "wigged
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out." THE AGENT KNOWS WHOM HE IS SPYING ON; BUT HE NEVER KNOWS
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WHO IS SPYING ON HIM! Could it be his wife, his girl friend, his
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secretary, the newsboy, the <ent type='ORG'>Good Humor</ent> man?
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For these reasons, secret-police agents develop elaborate and
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complex theories to account for what is actually going on.
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According to one of my tables of data, there isn't a single
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theory held by professional conspiracy buffs which isn't also
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believed by many members of our various secret-police agencies.
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In fact, the exact percentages of believes in these extravagant
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scenarios are quite similar among a group of 1000 <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> agents and
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a control group of 1000 readers of the underground press, as
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shown in table 1.</p>
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<p>Table 1. True Believes in various Conspiracy Theories Among <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>
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Agents and Underground-Press Readers.
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:: :: :: UNDERGROUND PRESS ::
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::CONSPIRACY THEORY :: <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> :: READERS ::
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::The <ent type='ORG'>Yankees</ent> (Eastern :: :: ::
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::millionaires) run :: 25% :: 30% ::
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::everything :: :: ::
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:: The <ent type='ORG'>Cowboys</ent>(Western :: :: ::
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:: millionaires) run :: 25% :: 15% ::
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:: everything :: :: ::
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:: It's the result of :: :: ::
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:: civil war between :: 23% :: 17% ::
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::<ent type='ORG'>Yankees</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Cowboys</ent> :: :: ::
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::It's the 33 degree :: :: ::
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::It's <ent type='ORG'>the Rock</ent> n Roll :: :: ::
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:: Empire :: 2% :: 2% ::
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<p>a). Source: Gallup, Roper, and <ent type='ORG'>Hogtied</ent>, "WHO'S WATCHING WHOM"
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(<ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>, DC: US Goverment Printing Office, 1979), p. 432.</p>
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<p>b). All figures are percentages. Figures do not add to 100, for
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a variety of reasons. For a list of them, please send 25 cents
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and a list of suspicious persons in your neighborhood to the US
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Dept. of Bedding, <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> DC 20001.</p>
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<p>c). Includes those who blame it all on the <ent type='NORP'>Bavarian</ent> Illuminati;
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those who hold a <ent type='GPE'>multiconspiracy</ent> theory (e.g., the Lesbian
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Vegetarians are allied with the <ent type='ORG'>Yankees</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Bilderbergers</ent> against
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the <ent type='ORG'>Cowboys</ent>, the TV Networks, and the Cattle Mutilators); those
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who believe it is all part of the <ent type='EVENT'>UFO</ent> Cover-Up; and those who
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claim that demons in the form of dogs told them it's connected
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somehow with the alligators in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>'s sewers.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</p>
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<p>************************************
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* IN <ent type='GPE'>RUSSIA</ent>, THE GOVERMENT IS *
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* TERRIFIED OF PAINTERS AND POETS! *
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<p> Now, Table 1 clearly gives a picture of a rather schizzed-out
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nation. This is the result of the impossible infinite regress
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and its resultant of worry leading to more worry.
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Furthermore, if there is a secret police at all, in any nation
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you care to imagine, every branch and department of that
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country's government becomes suspect, in the eyes of cautious and
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intelligent people, as a possible front or funnel to the secret
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police. (That is, the more shrewd citizens will recognize that
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something titled a branch of the <ent type='ORG'>HEW</ent> or even <ent type='ORG'>PTA</ent> might actually
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be run by the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>). Inevitably, the government as a whole, and
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many nongovernmental agencies, will be regarded by reasonable
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persons with fear and trepidation. Proverbs like "One can't be
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too careful these days" and "Better safe than sorry" become a
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kind of sinister folk wisdom.</p>
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<p> But further yet: any government which already has a secret
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police (and a secret police monitoring the secret police, etc).
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will become alarmed on observing that its more hip and
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intelligent citizens now regard it with loathing and misgivings.
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The government will therefore increase the size and powers of the
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secret police. This is the only rational move, within the
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context of the secret-police game.</p>
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<p>******************************
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* SOMETHING PASSING AS A *
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* BRANCH OF <ent type='ORG'>HEW</ent> MIGHT BE A *
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* <ent type='ORG'>FRONT</ent> FOR THE <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>! *
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<p> (The only alternative was once suggested sarcastically by
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playwright <ent type='PERSON'>Bert Brecht</ent>, who said, "If the government doesn't
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trust the people, why does'nt it dissovle them and elect new
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people?" No way has yet been invented to elect a new people; so
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the police state will instead spy on the existing people even
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more vigorously).
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This, of course, creates additional <ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>a in both the
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governors and the citizens, because a suffciently pugnacious
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secret police will eventually "have a file on everybody,"
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including its own creators. This leads to another infinite
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regress: the more people will loathe the government, the more
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power will be given to the secret police.
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Thus, whether any of the hypothetical conspiracies mentioned
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earlier really exist or not, a system of clandestine goverment
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inevitably produces, in both the rulers and the ruled, a mood of
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<ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>a in which such conspiracy theories flourish.
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This escalating sense of suspiciousness is accelerated by the
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fact that every secret-police organization engages in both the
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collection of information and the production misinformation.
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That is, you score points in the secret-police game both by
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hoarding signals (information units)---that is, by hiding facts
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from competitive players---and by foisting false signals (fake
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information units) on the other players. This creates the
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situation which I call Optimum Fuckup, in which every participant
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has rational (not neurotic) cause to suspect that every other
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player may be attempting to deceive him, gull him, con him, dupe
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him, and generally misinform him. As <ent type='PERSON'>Henry Kissinger</ent> is rumored
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to have said, "Anybody in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> these days who isn't
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<ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>d is crazy!"
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One could generalize the remark: anyone in <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States
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today who isn't <ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>d must be crazy!!!</p>
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<p>**********************************
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* "IF THE GOVERMENT DOESN'T *
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* TRUST THE PEOPLE, WHY DOESN'T *
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<p> The deliberate production of misinformation (or, as
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intelligence agencies more euphemistically call it,
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disinformation) creates a situation profoundly disorienting to
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the philosopher, the scientist, and the ordinary <ent type='PERSON'>Joe</ent> who wants to
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know the best time to go to the bank. The desire to discover
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"what-the-hell-is-really-going-on" (the definition of science
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offered by physicist Saul-Paul Sirag) is totally incompatible
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with the circulation of disinformation; we all need to know, at
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least roughly, what the hell is really going on if we are not to
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stumble around like blind robots colliding with things we weren't
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told were there.
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Maybe the UFO's really exist---or maybe the whole <ent type='EVENT'>UFO</ent>
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phenomenon is a cover for an intelligence operation. Maybe there
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are black holes where space and time implode---or maybe the
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entire black-hole cosmology was created to befuddle and mislead
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<ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> scientists. Maybe <ent type='PERSON'>Jimmy Carter</ent> really exists---or maybe
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he is, as the National Lampoon claims, an actor named Sidney
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Goldfarb specially trained to project the down-home virtues that
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the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> people nostalgically seek. Perhaps only three men
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at the top of the <ent type='ORG'>National Security</ent> Angency REALLY know the
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answers to these questions---or perhaps those three are being
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deceived by certain subordinates (as <ent type='PERSON'>Lyndon Johnson</ent> was deceived
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by the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> about <ent type='GPE'>Vietnam</ent>) and are as disoriented as the rest of
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us. Such is the logic of a Disinformation Matrix.
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Personally, I find it easier to believe in UFO's than in black
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holes or <ent type='PERSON'>Jimmy Carter</ent>; but that may just indicate the damage to
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my own brain caused by <ent type='ORG'>the Optimum Fuckup</ent> of the Disinformation
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Matrix.
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According to a recent survey 19 per cent of the population
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believe the moon landings were faked by <ent type='PERSON'>Stanley Kubrick</ent> and a
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gang of special effects experts. Perhaps these archskeptics are
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the sanest ones left among us. Who among the readers of this
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file has a security clearance high enough to be ABSOLUTELY sure
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that these ultra<ent type='PERSON'>paranoi</ent>ds are wrong?</p>
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<p> This general tendency toward chaos discord, and confusion,
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once a secret police has been established, is complicated and
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accelerated by Celine's Second Law, to wit: "Accurate
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communication is only possible in a nonpunishing situation."
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This is a very simple statement of the obvious, and means no more
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than that everybody tends to lie a little, to flatter or to
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protect themselves, when dealing with those who have power over
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them, especially the power to punish. (this is why communication
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between parents and children is notoriously befoolzled).
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Every authoritarian structure can be visualized as a pyramid,
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with very few at the top and very many at the bottom, as in the
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flowchart of any corperation or bureaucracy. On each rung,
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participants bear a burden of nescience in relation to those
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above them. That is, they must be very, very careful that their
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natural sensory activities as conscious organisms---the acts of
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seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, drawing inferences
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from perception, etc.---be in accord with the wishes of those
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above them. This is absolutely vital; job security depends on
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it. It is much less important---a luxury that can easily be
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discarded---that these perceptions be in accord with actual
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reality.</p>
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<p>*************************
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* COMMUNICATION IS ONLY *
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* BETWEEN EQUALS. *
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*************************</p>
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<p> For instance, in the <ent type='ORG'>FBI</ent> under J. Edgar <ent type='PERSON'>Hoover</ent>, the agent had
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to develop the capacity to see godless communists everywhere.
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Any agent whose perceptions indicated that there were actually
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very few godless communists anywhere in this country wold
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experience what psychologists call cognitive dissonance: his or
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her reality grid was at variance with the official reality grid
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of the pyramidal authority structure. To talk about such
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divergent perceptions at all would be to invite suspicions of
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eccentricity, of intellectual wiseacreing, or of being oneself a
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godless communist. The same would apply to any Dominican
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Inquisitor of earlier centuries who lacked the capacity to see
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witches everywhere. In such authoritarian situations, it is
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important to see what the authorities see; it is inconvenient,
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and possibly dangerous, to see what is actually there.
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But this leads to an equal and opposite burden of omniscience
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on those at the top, in the Eye of the authoritarian pyramid.
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All that is forbidden to those at the bottom---the conscious
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activities of perception andand evaluation---is demanded of the
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master classes, the elite and the super-elite. They must attempt
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to do the seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling, thinking,
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and decisionmaking for the whole society.
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But a man with a gun (the power to punish) is told only what
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his target thinks will not cause him to pull the trigger. The
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elite, with their burden of omniscience, face the underlings,
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with their burden nescience, and receive only the feedback
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consistent with their own preconceived notions. The burden of
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omniscience becomes, in short, another and more complex burden of
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nescience. Nobody really knows anything anymore, or if they do,
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they are careful to hide the fact.
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As the national security paradigm approaches (or attempts to
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approach) the ideal infinite regress of spies-spying-on-spies-spying-on-spies, etc., the resultant general trepidation causes
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all persons to hide anything they know (if it differs from the
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official reality), not only from their superiors, but from peers
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and inferiors as well. Anybody, after all, might be part of the
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nth-degree secret police. "One can't be too careful these days."
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The burden of nescience becomes omnipresent. More and more of
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reality becomes unspeakable.
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But as Freud noted, that which is objectively repressed
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(unspeakable) soon becomes subjectively repressed (unthinkable).
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Nobody likes to feel like a coward and a liar constantly. It is
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easier to cease to notice where the official reality grid differs
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from sensed experience. Thus <ent type='PERSON'>Optimun Fuckup</ent> gradually becomes
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<ent type='ORG'>Terminal Fuckup</ent>, and rigiditus bureaucraticus sets in; this is
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the last stage before all brain activity ceases, and the society
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is intellectually dead.
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Celine's Third Law is like unto the first two, and holds that
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AN HONEST politician is a national calamity.
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At first glance, this seems preposterous. People of all
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shades of opinion agree that at least on the axiom that we need
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more honest politicians, not more crooked ones. Please remember,
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however, that people of all shades of opinion once agreed that
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the <ent type='LOC'>Earth</ent> is flat.
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Your typical dishonest politician (<ent type='ORG'>bocca grande</ent> normalis) is
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interested only in enriching himself at the public expense, a
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goal he shares with most of his fellow citizens, especially
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doctors and lawyers. This is normal behavior for our primate
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species, and society has always been able to endure and survive
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it.
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* NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, OR IF *
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* THEY DO, THEY ARE CAREFUL TO *
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* HIDE THE FACT! *
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********************************</p>
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<p> An honest politician (<ent type='ORG'>bocca grande</ent> giganticus) is far more
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dangerous. He or she is <ent type='ORG'>sincerley</ent> commited to bettering society
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by political action. In practice, that means by writing and
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enacting more laws. Indeed, many groups of idealistic citizens
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publish rating sheets on politicians every year, and those who
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have created more laws are estimated as having higher value than
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those who are frequently absent when bills are voted upon. The
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assumption is that adding more laws to statute books is a
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positive achievement, like adding more money to our paychecks or
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more art works to a museum.
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A little thought, however, shows that this assumption is not
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tenable. Every law creates a whole new criminal class; for
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instance, when marijuana was illegalized in 1937, several hundred
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thousand formerly law-abiding citizens became criminals
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overnight, by Act of <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. As more and more laws are passed,
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more and more citizens become criminals. The chief cause of the
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rising crime rate is the rising number of laws being enacted. An
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honest politician, who keeps his nose to the grindstone and
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enacts several hundered laws in the course of his career, thereby
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produces as many as several million new criminals. </p>
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<p> It is furthermore mathematically demonstrable that the more
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laws there are, the more restrictions there are on the freedom of
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the individual. If there were, say, only three laws in a given
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society---e.g., Thou shalt not kill; thau shalt not steal; thou
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shalt not lie or defraud---there would be only three restrictions
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on freedom, which all rational persons would accept as obviously
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necessary to the maintenance of order. When there are several
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hundred thousand restrictions on freedom, most of which are felt
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as extremely irksome by large segments of the populace.
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In fact, it would take a brigade of lawyers several weeks,
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minutely examining your affairs, to determine if you are a
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criminal. Certainly, no ordinary citizen has the time or
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research facilities to discover if he or sshe is in violation of
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one out of skillions of laws currently on our statute books. In
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many cases, two lawyers consulted independently will give
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opposite opinions about whether or not a given course of action
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is in violation of the statutes.
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And new laws are being enacted all the time. Obviously,
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unless there is a sudden paper shortage, the number of laws on
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the books will eventually reach the point satirized by T.H.White,
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in which "everything not prohibited is compulsory." It would
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then probably only take a few years or decades more for a cadre
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of honest politicians diligently writing even more laws to reach
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the complementary point where "everything not compulsory is
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prohibited."
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*********************************
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* EVERY LAW CREATES A WHOLE *
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* NEW CRIMINAL CLASS OVERNIGHT! *
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*********************************</p>
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<p> At that stage the nightmare world of Orwell's 1984 will be
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achieved. Crooked politicians, merely interested in the normal
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human activity of making themselves rich and comfortable, could
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never create that ultimate horror; but honest and idealistic
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politicians bring us closer to it every day, with every new law
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they enact.
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These three generalizations---that national security produces
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national insecurity; that authoritarianism produces
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miscommunication and eventual idiocy; and that honest politicians
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are a plague upon society---will be found to fully explain the
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Decline and Fall of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, the Decline and Fall of the British
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Empire, and the Decline and Fall of any country you care to name.
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They are as universal as Newton's laws of motion and apply to
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ALL cases. Of course, the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Sociological Association says
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I am mad. Mad, am I? They said <ent type='ORG'>the Wright Brothers</ent> were mad.
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They said Edison was mad. They said Baron <ent type='PERSON'>Frankenstein</ent> was
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mad...</p>
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<p><ent type='ORG'>HABARD</ent> CELINE was trained in contract law and naval engineering
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but claims he acquired his real education playing the piano in a
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whorehouse. He is captain of the world's largest yellow
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submarine, the <ent type='PERSON'>Leif Erikson</ent>, and president of Gold and Appel
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Inc., an import-export firm that has frequently aroused the
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suspicions of law enforcement agencies ("137 arrests and no
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convictions," <ent type='ORG'>Hagbard</ent> brags). Some claim that he is a master of
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disguise and has successfully passed himself off under such
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alternative identities as <ent type='PERSON'>Howard Cork</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Carl Cory</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Hugh Crane</ent>,
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Clutch Cargo, Captain <ent type='PERSON'>Nemo</ent>, etc., and has appeared in countless
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epics and sagas.
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I am mad. </p>
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<p> Another file downloaded from: NIRVANAnet(tm)</p>
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<p> & <ent type='ORG'>the Temple</ent> of the Screaming Electron 415-935-5845
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Just Say Yes 415-922-2008
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Rat Head 415-524-3649
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<ent type='ORG'>Cheez Whiz</ent> 408-363-9766</p>
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<p> Specializing in conversations, obscure information, high explosives,
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arcane knowledge, political extremism, diversive sexuality,
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insane speculation, and wild rumours. ALL-TEXT BBS SYSTEMS.</p>
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<p> Full access for first-time callers. We don't want to know who you are,
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where you live, or what your phone number is. We are not Big Brother.</p>
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<p> "Raw Data for Raw Nerves"</p>
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