A post submitted by CGI member Leathur for CGI member LukeThroop.

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I'm filing this quote away for the future: "Slavery happens when people are persuaded to obey." - Leathur

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Luke Throop
September 21, 2023

You need to know this.

We need to understand something—and when I say we, I am referring to my fellow working-class peasants. I am referring to good old fashioned, red-blooded, liberty loving Americans from all walks of life. I’m talking to Christian conservatives, to liberal intellectuals, to resolute republicans, old school democrats, libertarians, independents and anyone else who will listen.

You need to know this, regardless of your political, religious, or social affiliations.

Your friends need to know it. Your family needs to to know it.

Everyone needs to know this.

And please, before we get started, understand that those at the top of the social ladder, those at the top of the economic ladder, those at the top of the global hierarchy already understand what I’m about to share—it’s a staple principle for the ruling class.

This principle allows the rich to get richer and the powerful to gain more power. It facilitates the rise of tyrants and tyranny, as well as the rise of saints and salvation.

Like all principles, the concept itself is neutral. It’s how this principle is used that determines whether or not the outcome is good or evil, helpful or harmful, for the benefit of the masses or the benefit of the ruling class.

This principle is at once both archaic and cutting edge. It is timeless and true.

It’s something that you know, but have never properly understood.

I will call this powerful principle the “Principle of Persuasion According to Luke.”

The Principle of Persuasion

Now I am not talking about the science of persuasion, or any sort of academic understanding of persuasion, nor am I making any reference to the great mountain of philosophical inquiry or deliberative study that has illuminated the various facets and functions of persuasion for those few in possession of this special knowledge.

I am talking about the practical impact of persuasion, relative to the current geopolitical shitstorm, the Great Reset, and the global consolidation of power.

Persuasion is how things get done. Persuasion is how treaties get signed, how wars are won, how laws are passed, how businesses succeed, and ultimately how society as a whole gets structured. It is through the principle of persuasion that power structures are constructed and maintained, and how human beings are made into slaves.

Slavery happens when people are persuaded to obey.

I’ll give you an example. There was a recent local kerfuffle over the forceful installation of “smart meters” on people’s homes throughout the county. No amount of public push back, no amount of rational rebuttal, no amount of emotional appeal was going to change the minds of local Public Utilities District commissioners.

They had been persuaded to believe this transition to new digital meters was good and necessary. Once this belief had been firmly ingrained, these local leaders took to defending their beliefs and fighting against the deeply concerned public sentiment that was being expressed in one local meeting after another.

It seemed like the public at large was completely incapable of persuading these commissioners to change their minds. This is just one of infinite examples.

How can it be that local leaders, who live amongst us, can be persuaded to ignore, override, and even scorn the people they’ve been elected to serve? How can these elected leaders so callously disregard the very serious concerns of local citizens?

It is, as I’m sure you’ve guessed, through the principle of persuasion that otherwise good people come to betray the communities they claim to represent. It’s how the Nazi’s drug millions of people out of their homes and marched them into gas chambers—it was the local level leaders that made these atrocities possible.

That is very key. The government is nothing without its agents. An agent is nothing unless they have the ability to use force against you. Thus, we aren’t necessarily fighting against the government and its agents, so much as we are fighting against those in our own local communities who are doing the dirty work for the government and its agents.

In other words, we are fighting against those who have been persuaded to stand against us.

That’s all pretty straightforward, right?

CONTINUE READING: https://www.thetorchreport.com/p/tr-456-harnessing-the-power-of-persuasion#details