As discussed in Part 1, there are many obstacles to making oneself the unquestioned master of a free people. The obstacles described can not be overwhelmed in a single cataclysmic event, but they can be eroded over time. We will now begin to describe the tools and techniques that will be required to prepare the populace to actually participate willingly in its own subjugation.

The process will require at least four generations, if successful. This time span is dictated by the need to wait for a majority of the initial happy, certain, productive and successful people to die off. You must change attitudes slowly, generation by generation, until the necessary climate of fear, distrust and general dissatisfaction is achieved.

Activist Propaganda

The heart of the plot is a steady, implacable, and consistent program of propaganda. To spread this propaganda, it will be necessary to recruit a significant number of people who will faithfully repeat the "ideals" that the cunning Evil Genius will provide.

The people used in this manner should be a group that is generally dissatisfied with its lot in the current system, but is only vaguely aware, if at all, of the reasons for that dissatisfaction. Candidate groups include unpopular religious groups (including atheists,) marginalized ethnic groups, people with lower than average income, the poorly educated, the lazy, the overly educated, and others. If possible, more than one of these groups should be cultivated to spread slightly different versions of the main theme.

The group or groups selected should be able to identify with one another in a manner that will promote a sense of unity among themselves. At the same time, the groups' sense of community with the population at large should be as tenuous as possible, so they can more easily be alienated from the social mainstream. Because their purpose is to slowly alter the thinking of the mainstream population, the selected groups must not be too much at variance with the common culture. The selected victim group will be used over a long time to generate sympathy and agreement in the mainstream culture, while maintaining a separation from that culture.

Initially, the message to be propagated should be some variation of "Unfair! Equal Rights for All!" The precise content can be adjusted to fit the malcontents for which it is intended, but the primary focus must be kept on the "unfair" part of the message. Once the message has been introduced, it will appeal to the greed and envy of the subject group, and they will claim the message for their own.

Once the message has been adopted by the selected victim group, ever more strident repetition will bring the message to the awareness of the social mainstream. Anger and resentment within the victim group should be promoted if it does not spontaneously appear. Limited incidents of violence may be helpful, as long as tensions do not reach the point of actual civil war.

At this point, intellectual and political leaders should be cultivated or created to give the message greater credibility and importance. Initially, these leaders can position themselves as voices of reason, using real or imagined authority to promote a sense of guilt in the mainstream society with public speeches and legal and scholarly publications. When the time is right, they can propose changes in law that provide special privileges to the victim group in the interest of fair play and equal rights. Of course, these laws will foster anger and resentment in the mainstream against the victim group, and will do nothing to promote real social equity.

As the movement succeeds, other victim groups will surface not under your direct control. This is not a problem, as long as these groups continue to maintain their victim mentality. Some of these groups may in fact succeed in integrating themselves into the social mainstream, thus achieving actual equality of opportunity for success. This is a major problem, since such groups will acquire an interest in maintaining the existing system.

Fortunately, should any victim group appear to be in danger of acceptance and integration, it will be a simple matter to magnify individual failures and isolated disputes to demonstrate a continuing pattern of oppression. The silliness and insignificance of these trivial incidents is irrelevant. The important thing is to project the illusion of unrelenting oppression to play upon the guilt of the social mainstream, and the paranoia and isolation of the victim group.

As progress toward equal treatment is made, it will be useful to occasionally call for reparations in redress of past injustices. These calls will only rarely meet with any success, and are intended only to promote confusion and make the "social injustices" seem more intractable.

Over time, with surprisingly little guidance, this strategy will result in a fragmented society consisting of fragmented subcultures divided by mutual suspicion. By referring to each of these subcultures by a unique name in news reports and other public discussions, the separation can be maintained and amplified indefinitely. Eventually, the once unified society will become a shattered mosaic of mutually exclusive camps, each group constantly alert for opportunities to promote its own welfare at the expense of the others.

To Be Continued....