It would sound untrue and mythical to say that everything we see as life is far more than a feeble mind can imagine. It may be relieving and pleasing, and there may be various sensible reasons to justify its necessity, but there are more exclusive benefits to the emperor’s grand plan.
The emperor, with all the power in his possession, shall not find sleep without tools to ensure his lasting position of power. He must devise tools to ensure the populace’s illusion of freedom. He must keep the populace preoccupied with trivial things. This will help them stay consciously asleep as they become immersed in a perpetual state of seeking for instant gratification.
To achieve this, the emperor invested the time and resources necessary to establish a solid circus. Of course, as time goes, the populace may become lazy and not be willing to commute to the circus. So, one of the best things to do was to bring the circus right into the comfort of their homes.
One way to keep the populace asleep was to control the consumption of information so that they are only fed selected information, good enough to keep them in a permanent state of fear and anxiety. This will easily be achieved through propaganda and sensationalism. These have the power to keep the populace busy enough with conversations and deliberations about what they saw on the news. Thus, the populace is kept busy and distracted with this window-dressing for their mental faculties to disappear into oblivion.
The emperor also saw an opportunity, through the established circus, to programme the populace into a monolithic interpretation of life and group thinking. This, he achieves through idolisation and its influence on the masses for his greatest benefit. He also invested so much into sports that not only are the masses distracted from things that matter, but also instil division subliminally through pettiness. This will subconsciously keep the masses focused on their differences than their similarities. This is all done in plain sight, yet the populace never gets to wonder why a player would lavishly be compensated for just playing.
To put the cherry on the cake, the emperor invented systems of education, economics and religion. He ensured that the education system is not really about education, but indoctrination with predetermined outcomes. It is presented with an illusion that one has a choice to make from what was already chosen for them. Those who toe the line and reach the highest levels of indoctrination are well-rewarded with prestige and paramount status. This will work enough to attract the aspiring ones, just as a bright light is to a moth.
Finally, the emperor convinced the masses that they are infantile and can never lead themselves. Therefore, they must place their trust and hand over even their intellectual might to his selected few servants. This way, the emperor is solely guaranteed the responsibility to rule over the lives of the populace as he pleases, and they are his sheep that he may even lead to the slaughter if he so wishes. To seal the deal, the emperor knew that for total control, he must propagate perversion in the name of sexual freedom and easy access to the most dangerous drug called alcohol.
The emperor, to the populace, is a saviour and worthy of glory. Nations bow and even when he dies, they will beg to go kneel at his grave. Yet, to the emperor, a populace that is truly free – with individual sovereignty and the ability to think and lead itself – is nothing more than useless eaters. It must be kept in a survival mode for as long as possible through intentional impoverishment and dependence. A populace that is forever concerned about where its next meal will come from, shall never think in rebellion of the emperor.
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Uncommon Sense is published every Friday in the New Era newspaper with contributions from Karlos Naimhwaka