The Alternative to Grudging Compliance…

I

f you are a slave

and you want to become free, the solution is actually quite simple – assuming that you are not subject to direct coercion.

If you are a slave

and you want to become free, the solution is not to try and talk your owners into setting you free.

If you are a slave

and you want to become free, the solution is not to try and talk your fellow slaves into joining your rebellion.

If you are a slave

and you want to become free, the solution is very simple.

Very terrifying, but very simple.

If you are a slave, and you want to become free, the solution is simply this:

 

Stop

acting

like a slave!

 

What does this look like?

Slaves are not allowed to tell the truth. Slaves are not allowed to offend their masters. Slaves are not allowed to express preferences. Slaves must always manage their masters. Slaves must always be on guard. Slaves must always shy away from punishment.

Slaves must always fear their fellow slaves.

Slaves are not allowed to feel curiosity.

Slaves are not allowed to feel genuine emotion.

Slaves can only react to propaganda

.

So if you don’t want to

be

a slave, stop

acting

like a slave.

This is the core of the Real-Time Relationship

(RTR).

The Real-Time Relationship (RTR)

The reason that I call it the RTR

is because it is all about telling other people

in the moment

how you feel.

Slaves are not allowed to tell the truth.

So – you start off by telling the truth.

If you don’t want to be a slave

, when the dreaded name lights up the call display, you pick up the phone and say to your mother:

“

Hi, mom. Do you know – the most interesting thing just happened – your name showed up on my call display and I felt a sinking sensation in my stomach, a kind of dread, or nervousness, and a desire to avoid picking up the phone.”

And then, you say nothing.

Nothing at all.

You must be free to say what you truly think and feel – and your mother

must be free to respond as she sees fit.

Just as it is essential for your mother

to know your true thoughts and feelings, so it is essential that you know your mother’s genuine response to your true thoughts and feelings.

Picture speaking this honestly to your mother

– picture being

that

honest.

What does that make you feel?

Dread? Fear? Terror?

Hopelessness? Despair?

Like walking off a cliff?

That is your enslavement weeping.

That is your propaganda shrieking.

That is your

mother

speaking.

But if you want to stop being a slave

, stop acting like a slave.

You feel terror – but really, what are you so afraid of?

Can your mother beat you now? Does she have total control over you, now that you are an adult?

Can she lock you in your room and deny you dinner?

Of course not.

So – I ask you again:

what are you so afraid of?

The Core of Fear

I can tell you, if you like – but you already know the answer of course.

You are afraid of being revealed as a slave

– not to your mother, who already knows – but to

yourself

.

The worst and most terrifying aspect of slavery is that you have to pretend that you are

not

a slave.

When you look at the history of genuine slavery, it was never justified in terms of force, but rather in terms of Christian benevolence, the mental retardation of the slaves

, the “white man’s burden,” the need to save the souls of the savages and so on.

In other words, the people called

“slaves” were not really slaves, any more than a baby is a “slave.”

The mythology

went something like this:

 

These “slaves” are only owned because they lack the capacity for self-ownership. They are controlled for the same reason that a child wandering into traffic must be controlled. These savage fools are terrible dangers to themselves – they cannot handle freedom. If given their liberty, they would act out a terrible orgy of self-destruction, sexual abandon and brute violence.

 

And the same is considered true of us, in our “democracies.”

A terrible trap was thus set up for those who were subjugated…

If they obeyed the will of their masters, they were “good” – and “liberated” from their own tendency toward self-destruction. If they disobeyed the will of their masters, they were “evil,” “irresponsible,” “willful,” etc.

Thus:

“slavery equals freedom,” and “freedom equals slavery.”

Slavery and Freedom

The moment that slaves see themselves

as slaves

, they immediately begin to become free.

The true equation for freedom – the thunderous power that shatters the chains

of the slaves – is the simple statement:

slavery equals slavery

.

Thus the greatest danger for slave

-owners is that they will lose control of the moral definitions of “slavery” and “freedom.”

However, they are in constant danger of losing control of these definitions, because of the rank hypocrisy

involved in any form of human ownership or control, and because, deep down, the slaves yearn and burn to be

free!

Reason, empiricism, science

and simple experience are always dissolving the chains of mankind.

Chains must be constantly re-forged, strengthened, reinforced – they rust by the

minute

.

We can see this in the world of

“democracy,” insofar as people are considered to be violent, greedy, evil, short-sighted and so on – yet somehow magically possess the wisdom and foresight to elect people who will force them to be “good.”

Without a government

, so the mythology goes, we would all tear each other to pieces.

Human beings are by nature evil

and violent – thus we should give a small monopoly of people who want to use violence to achieve their ends (the state) a monopoly over the use of force, and an endless ability to escape the consequences of their actions.

However, the truth that we all experience

in reality

, on a daily basis, is fear not of our fellow drivers, but of the police car. The violence that we are threatened with is not mugging, raping or home invasion, but rather jail for non-payment of taxes or disobeying the whims of our masters. What is more likely – that we will be robbed by a criminal, or that our money will lose its value through political inflation?

The supposed predations of our fellow citizens

are almost nowhere to be seen – it is the

state

that controls the money supply, the army, the police, the guns, the bombs, the attack helicopters, the long-range bombers, the nuclear weapons – and the prisons.

True freedom would be a disaster, we are told – nature red in tooth

and claw – and thus enslavement to our masters is real “freedom.”

In the same way, parents

define slavery as “virtue” – despite the endless hypocrisies of this mad reversal.