Keeping Your People Down

An alternative approach, also very popular with meglomaniacs from all four corners of the world, is to convince the opressed that opression is what they actually want. In practice, this method can be so effective that the people will even fight to defend their opressed state. If you yourself are planning to instigate your own dictatorial oligarchy then all you need to do is follow these simple rules:

• Control the Media.But make it look like it still has autonomy. Create several alternative media sources and make them all appear to have different viewpoints, ideally get the various newpapers, radio stations and TV networks to publically argue and compete. It is vitally important that the content of the media is complete drivel, and that no arguments take place regarding any important governmental descision. If need be, create some minor political-sounding debate for them to argue about. A recent example of this is the European Parliment, and how they want to alter the British Sausage; whilst being a totally banal and pointless argument, it serves to keep the public thinking about something else.
• Separate Politics From Everything Political. Of course in reality it is impossible to separate Politics from anything - everything is political. However, by careful arrangement you can create the impression in peoples minds that politics is a separte subject to freedom and hapiness. The best way to do this is to...
  
• Divert The People's Attention. This is the most important part of any sucessful dictatorship. Give the peasants something to think about apart from their freedom and your fascist actions. Sport is probably the most fashionable way to achieve this. Increase the sports coverage in the media. Ensure that no-one can ever actually win everything. Who cares about curfews with Liverpool v Arsenal on the TV ?
• Create New Ideals.Marketing people are the dictators friend. Use them to ensure that everyone is permanently feeling inadequate by showing them impossible images of unobtainable lifestyles, full to the brim with the latest consumer goods.
  For recreation create pointless and self nullifying pastimes. Try and eliminate anything that may result in people conversing and thus risking the uncoverring of the truth. Ensure all social venues contain loud ,mindless music, preferably without lyrics. Encouraging promiscuous sex is also very effective.N.B. Never allow your government to be seen to approve of sexual promiscuity. Hold the moral highground and create Catholic-style guilt complexs - this method has been tried and tested for hundreds of years
• Maintain a Steady Drugs Supply. An old favourite. Generations of people have used Alcohol to take their minds off whats going on and concentrate on punching their mates. The violence issue is Alcohol's weakness. A drug that just makes people think about something else without getting angry is whats needed. Currently, the drug "Ecstacy" is proving itself ideal for this purpose. It creates a sense of narcissistic hapiness and well being, gives its user a desire to not only have sex but to go to places with nothing but loud mindless music. (see previous section) Nothing could be further from the mind of an Ecstacy user than revolution. Why rebel when there's E ? Further tests will be required, but it does appear that Ecstacy is the ultimate tool for the futherence of fascism.

The youth, normally the driving force behind any political action, are quite content with destroying their weekends with drugs, achieving nothing but sleepless nights in bizarre, tribalistic population control centers, or 'clubs' as they are euphamistically called. Why try and change society when you can get all the hapiness you need from a small while pill ?

Ok, this is an old idea, and its been done many times. 1984, Brave New World, Rollerball, Running Man, the list goes on. Why worry. Lets just get pissed....