Chapter 4: Organization and Goals
“For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated believe in the neutrality of their key social institutions.”
-Herbert Schiller
So much for the guiding route through which our goals will be realized, the next question is, how will such a large ambition be organized? After all, essentially, the demand seems to be next to impossible: organize a tiny, persecuted minority to defeat a huge, well-outfitted opposition which has won, historically, the lion’s share of battles in the past. In fact, we do not refute the point that such a program of operation may take generations to accomplish, if it succeeds at all. But the salient issue is that the experiment was undertaken, for in the end, society and human civilization has everything to gain. Should we fail in our endeavors, the only consequence will be lessons that will be instrumental in a new pattern of thought that will lead to another attempt to destroy the Maintainer stranglehold on human development. That this struggle begins is significant. That the supremacy of the paradigm over stagnation is an ideal is significant.
But all this is very pretty rhetoric. (See the colors, aren’t they pretty!) We must return to the issue: how do we organize?
Rather than attempting in one blow to unite all the Creators of human society into one, single, coherent piece (although that is the eventual result), we must create small units of our final aim, which will be independently working towards Maintainer overthrow. All around on a very fundamental local level, Creators must begin to find one another and join together in this collective mission. Slowly, without knowledge of each others whereabouts, the Creators as a whole will be moving towards the controlling heights of the social structure through their respective small communities. Since the deep seated need to work towards their own unique paradigm makes each grouping of Creators different, some of them will be tightly regimented (in the sense of an official organization or otherwise), some will be loosely associated (as in a group of friends), some will be secret in their operation, while others will be public (with their final intention remaining, of course, confidential), and so on. But the point is that, members of this decentralized, almost unassociated, group of Creators will be helping one another to greater positions of power and influence. Continually, to avoid the trap of stagnating their development, these groups will constantly seek to recruit newer, fresher minds and ideas in their expansion. More will be slowly exposed to the ideals of this growing movement, the Umbrella, in their slow and secretive march to authority. As they grow and move up the pyramid of influence, these groups will more and more often come into contact with one another. As will be described later, they will also signal the existence of one another through the use of symbols, which may be publicly paraded without the detection of the Follower-Maintainers (now referred to as The Opposition). This will allow them to fuse their progressive communities together.
Note that these groups are not unified by a specific doctrine, more so, they are brought together by an ideology about thinking and acting creatively, and in doing so, they will merge easily, since all the members of the movement are merely facets of a larger ideological belief: a belief in evolving paradigms, being innovative, and refusing to resort to unthinking belief in a concept. This includes the unthinking adherence to this manifesto itself, which will be adapted and renewed to present more effective ways (check, ideologies) of pursuing a dream, a conception of the way things should be. That is an important point: our dream of achieving Creator supremacy should never be changed and instead should be given a leap of faith because it not an ideology, but more a mental picture of our goal, which is a far cry from what the rest of this manifesto presents, the proposal of how to achieve it.
Nevertheless, as the Umbrella reaches higher and higher levels, their smaller discoveries of one another and their eventual merging will lead to an emergent organization, one which unites all the Creators of society into a single piece. And from this, the “Subvert” phase referred to earlier ends, and “Control” begins. From this point, the organization evolves as necessary to maintain a tight grip over the Followers for the ultimate aim of moving to eliminate Maintainer resistance.
These smaller organizations, in their onset, have a set of targets which they will collectively choose to aim for in their subversion. Since the inherently local nature of the initial phase allows the flexibility for these organizations to be more specific and fine tuned in the development of their members and communities, their targets will differ depending on their culture. Delegating specific targets which are best attuned to the life of the organizations trying to subvert them serves the larger, overall purpose of allowing the Umbrella to have the greatest impact over the largest area such that this decentralized, again, emergent movement is able to prevent havens for Maintainer power. Emergence, of course, is an important point here. The question at hand is how to develop of coherent organization without any central control, thereby avoiding immediate destruction by the general public and gaining the secrecy advantages of conspiracy.
In my mind, it is easiest to understand the selection of objectives for subversion by dividing the organizations which have become loyal to the Umbrella vision of society into two divisions. The first, given the general label of “establishment,” consists of groups of individuals who are best able to cooperate or otherwise flow with the Follower and Maintainer world to achieve their Creator ends. Essentially, they see a manipulation of currently existing trends as the more effective and most natural path of surviving in an Opposition controlled world. There are three subdivisions which represent the core forces at work in the “establishment” division. These are the fields of business (referring to “established” or otherwise older and less innovative industries), law (that is, ‘existing’ politics), and religion. The second division, the “antiestablishment,” represents those Creators who find themselves unable to compromise and therefore at odds with the Maintainers in a direct way. In a sense, their route of expressing their Creator nature is not to flow or influence the system, but to work to actively smash it. While more visible than their establishment cousins, they are indeed in some ways more powerful in their sense of community which separates them from the isolation so often felt by the other. There also exist three subdivisions, again acting as a metaphor for the three core forces at work inside this sector of society. These are: art, politics (referring to developing politics), and business (in terms of more innovative and growing industries).
Needless to say, some things are missing from this almost painfully broad chopping up of society. “Science,” for example, is inarguably one of the most powerful forces in shaping civilization, but does not turn up on the list. While not perfect, this system of categorization considers the human internationality (which itself is at the core of this battle) in an endeavor. Going back to the question of science, one might ask if the organization under question sees science as primarily for the development of business, for artistic (that is, the spirit of artistic enterprise) reasons, or otherwise. In doing so, the problem falls neatly apart. Though, to some extent, the lines between the divisions are blurry and therefore organizations must decide on their own which targets apply to them and move without delay to subvert and control them. To this end, these are the primary targets, with more minor ones becoming evident given a little thought to similar organizations.
Fig. 1: Targets of Umbrella Subversion
Establishment
1) Business
Multinational Corporations (of all kinds, esp. financial services)
Natural Resource Industries
Heavy Industries (including arms and aeronautics)
The World Trade Organization
The World Bank
The European Union
NAFTA
Major Media Hubs/ Sources of Information
2) Law
The United Nations (and other major NGOs and political orgs.)
National Governmental Positions
Multinational Thinktanks and Lobbying Organizations
National Instruments of Enforcement (militaries, police, etc.)
Intelligence Organizations (CIA, NSA, etc.)
Key Positions in Judicial Occupations
Major Political Parties
3) Religion
Influential Posts in all the mainstream and significant religions of the world. (defined as all those religions having over a million followers.)
AntiEstablishment
(Due to the rapidly changing Creator nature of the antiestablishment, these following subdivision categories are by necessity vague.)
1) Art
Major and influential positions in the production of music
Major and influential positions in the production of visual art
Major and influential positions in the production of literature
2) Politics
Control of significant and upcoming grassroots movements.
Control over the belief and culture of the “New Left”
3) Business
Control over the developing business and engineering of information technology, bioengineering, and other fields, as well as “antiestablishment business.”
In this way, smaller, decentralized Creator organizations will be able to rally towards a central, secretive goal. Slowly climbing to the pinnacles of power centers throughout society, they will come into contact as the number of possible positions for power fall as they move to the top, eventually finding others who are committed to the Creator revolution and merging with them in a common aim. Eventually so many of the positions are fulfilled and organizations merged that a new, larger, emerging community will evolve, signaling Creator control over society and the destruction of Maintainer policy. Society, therefore, shall become led by a secret association of powers and moved towards greater thought, creativity, and innovation. An association, nearly incorruptible as a consequence of its own nature: a community of innovators not united by a single doctrine, save the doctrine of having no doctrines and constantly developing the social paradigm.
-Herbert Schiller
So much for the guiding route through which our goals will be realized, the next question is, how will such a large ambition be organized? After all, essentially, the demand seems to be next to impossible: organize a tiny, persecuted minority to defeat a huge, well-outfitted opposition which has won, historically, the lion’s share of battles in the past. In fact, we do not refute the point that such a program of operation may take generations to accomplish, if it succeeds at all. But the salient issue is that the experiment was undertaken, for in the end, society and human civilization has everything to gain. Should we fail in our endeavors, the only consequence will be lessons that will be instrumental in a new pattern of thought that will lead to another attempt to destroy the Maintainer stranglehold on human development. That this struggle begins is significant. That the supremacy of the paradigm over stagnation is an ideal is significant.
But all this is very pretty rhetoric. (See the colors, aren’t they pretty!) We must return to the issue: how do we organize?
Rather than attempting in one blow to unite all the Creators of human society into one, single, coherent piece (although that is the eventual result), we must create small units of our final aim, which will be independently working towards Maintainer overthrow. All around on a very fundamental local level, Creators must begin to find one another and join together in this collective mission. Slowly, without knowledge of each others whereabouts, the Creators as a whole will be moving towards the controlling heights of the social structure through their respective small communities. Since the deep seated need to work towards their own unique paradigm makes each grouping of Creators different, some of them will be tightly regimented (in the sense of an official organization or otherwise), some will be loosely associated (as in a group of friends), some will be secret in their operation, while others will be public (with their final intention remaining, of course, confidential), and so on. But the point is that, members of this decentralized, almost unassociated, group of Creators will be helping one another to greater positions of power and influence. Continually, to avoid the trap of stagnating their development, these groups will constantly seek to recruit newer, fresher minds and ideas in their expansion. More will be slowly exposed to the ideals of this growing movement, the Umbrella, in their slow and secretive march to authority. As they grow and move up the pyramid of influence, these groups will more and more often come into contact with one another. As will be described later, they will also signal the existence of one another through the use of symbols, which may be publicly paraded without the detection of the Follower-Maintainers (now referred to as The Opposition). This will allow them to fuse their progressive communities together.
Note that these groups are not unified by a specific doctrine, more so, they are brought together by an ideology about thinking and acting creatively, and in doing so, they will merge easily, since all the members of the movement are merely facets of a larger ideological belief: a belief in evolving paradigms, being innovative, and refusing to resort to unthinking belief in a concept. This includes the unthinking adherence to this manifesto itself, which will be adapted and renewed to present more effective ways (check, ideologies) of pursuing a dream, a conception of the way things should be. That is an important point: our dream of achieving Creator supremacy should never be changed and instead should be given a leap of faith because it not an ideology, but more a mental picture of our goal, which is a far cry from what the rest of this manifesto presents, the proposal of how to achieve it.
Nevertheless, as the Umbrella reaches higher and higher levels, their smaller discoveries of one another and their eventual merging will lead to an emergent organization, one which unites all the Creators of society into a single piece. And from this, the “Subvert” phase referred to earlier ends, and “Control” begins. From this point, the organization evolves as necessary to maintain a tight grip over the Followers for the ultimate aim of moving to eliminate Maintainer resistance.
These smaller organizations, in their onset, have a set of targets which they will collectively choose to aim for in their subversion. Since the inherently local nature of the initial phase allows the flexibility for these organizations to be more specific and fine tuned in the development of their members and communities, their targets will differ depending on their culture. Delegating specific targets which are best attuned to the life of the organizations trying to subvert them serves the larger, overall purpose of allowing the Umbrella to have the greatest impact over the largest area such that this decentralized, again, emergent movement is able to prevent havens for Maintainer power. Emergence, of course, is an important point here. The question at hand is how to develop of coherent organization without any central control, thereby avoiding immediate destruction by the general public and gaining the secrecy advantages of conspiracy.
In my mind, it is easiest to understand the selection of objectives for subversion by dividing the organizations which have become loyal to the Umbrella vision of society into two divisions. The first, given the general label of “establishment,” consists of groups of individuals who are best able to cooperate or otherwise flow with the Follower and Maintainer world to achieve their Creator ends. Essentially, they see a manipulation of currently existing trends as the more effective and most natural path of surviving in an Opposition controlled world. There are three subdivisions which represent the core forces at work in the “establishment” division. These are the fields of business (referring to “established” or otherwise older and less innovative industries), law (that is, ‘existing’ politics), and religion. The second division, the “antiestablishment,” represents those Creators who find themselves unable to compromise and therefore at odds with the Maintainers in a direct way. In a sense, their route of expressing their Creator nature is not to flow or influence the system, but to work to actively smash it. While more visible than their establishment cousins, they are indeed in some ways more powerful in their sense of community which separates them from the isolation so often felt by the other. There also exist three subdivisions, again acting as a metaphor for the three core forces at work inside this sector of society. These are: art, politics (referring to developing politics), and business (in terms of more innovative and growing industries).
Needless to say, some things are missing from this almost painfully broad chopping up of society. “Science,” for example, is inarguably one of the most powerful forces in shaping civilization, but does not turn up on the list. While not perfect, this system of categorization considers the human internationality (which itself is at the core of this battle) in an endeavor. Going back to the question of science, one might ask if the organization under question sees science as primarily for the development of business, for artistic (that is, the spirit of artistic enterprise) reasons, or otherwise. In doing so, the problem falls neatly apart. Though, to some extent, the lines between the divisions are blurry and therefore organizations must decide on their own which targets apply to them and move without delay to subvert and control them. To this end, these are the primary targets, with more minor ones becoming evident given a little thought to similar organizations.
Fig. 1: Targets of Umbrella Subversion
Establishment
1) Business
Multinational Corporations (of all kinds, esp. financial services)
Natural Resource Industries
Heavy Industries (including arms and aeronautics)
The World Trade Organization
The World Bank
The European Union
NAFTA
Major Media Hubs/ Sources of Information
2) Law
The United Nations (and other major NGOs and political orgs.)
National Governmental Positions
Multinational Thinktanks and Lobbying Organizations
National Instruments of Enforcement (militaries, police, etc.)
Intelligence Organizations (CIA, NSA, etc.)
Key Positions in Judicial Occupations
Major Political Parties
3) Religion
Influential Posts in all the mainstream and significant religions of the world. (defined as all those religions having over a million followers.)
AntiEstablishment
(Due to the rapidly changing Creator nature of the antiestablishment, these following subdivision categories are by necessity vague.)
1) Art
Major and influential positions in the production of music
Major and influential positions in the production of visual art
Major and influential positions in the production of literature
2) Politics
Control of significant and upcoming grassroots movements.
Control over the belief and culture of the “New Left”
3) Business
Control over the developing business and engineering of information technology, bioengineering, and other fields, as well as “antiestablishment business.”
In this way, smaller, decentralized Creator organizations will be able to rally towards a central, secretive goal. Slowly climbing to the pinnacles of power centers throughout society, they will come into contact as the number of possible positions for power fall as they move to the top, eventually finding others who are committed to the Creator revolution and merging with them in a common aim. Eventually so many of the positions are fulfilled and organizations merged that a new, larger, emerging community will evolve, signaling Creator control over society and the destruction of Maintainer policy. Society, therefore, shall become led by a secret association of powers and moved towards greater thought, creativity, and innovation. An association, nearly incorruptible as a consequence of its own nature: a community of innovators not united by a single doctrine, save the doctrine of having no doctrines and constantly developing the social paradigm.
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