Orthocracy Speaks

Orthocracy Speaks is a book in progress. When a new chapter is added, the entire manuscript gets revised. When the book is complete, it will get a list price and go commercial. Orthocracy is also posted as a blog on Wordpress. You can post a comment there, or send an e-mail to tesla@teslapress.com

Are we governed by a philosophy of rule that goes unperceived and unspoken? Is there a hidden technology of rule?

I say, yes. Moreover, I contend that the real rules of rule are unutterable, and that one of those rules itself (Rule 12) dictates that they be forever unutterable.

Although no well organized orthocracy allows the rules of rule be made explicit, one can infer the outlines of a system of rules behind the veil -- a ruling system. One can make such inferences from direct experience (sometimes painful), from direct observation, or from meditation on the daily news. In this inquiry, any formal academic education (including political science, history, and sociology) can only be an impediment to insight. You'll find none of this information in the illusory world of Poly-Sci 101.

Orthocracy Speaks is about the what of the system, not the who of it. (That has been done by May Brussels, David Emory, Gary Allen, Jim Marrs, David Ikes, Alex Jones ... Thank you all.) When a proper name appears here it is symbolic or iconic. In my analysis I count thirteen rules of rule. They are stated below and reiterated throughout. Do they ring a bell?

On consideration, you may posit more, or maybe fewer rules. I offer some suggestive evidence to support my analysis. You may think of some even more telling manifestations of the ruling system in action. Once one launches into such an inquiry, supporting evidence seems to be everywhere and inexhaustible.

We speak of the ruling system or the system, but the word system is vague. Merriam's 3rd lists thirteen definitions. I offer instead the coinage orthocracy, meaning, from the Greek, straight-rule. Think of the colloquial connotations of straight (orthodox, uptight). You won't find this neologism in Merriam's or Wikapedia, but orthocracy is not absolutely my own coinage; I heard it “in the streets” a few times back in the 1970's, when it may have had some currency. (Google will send you to a 1915 tract called The Orthocratic State, which must be a publisher's title, because the term is never defined, nor does it ever appear in the text,)

As to the historical genesis of the orthocracy, I do not know, but you are welcome to speculate. Is it solely the work of man? Was it created by historical happenstance? Or did it descend by some agency from Jupiter or Mars? I do not know. The orthocracy does seem so alien. Perhaps the orthocracy came straight from Hell. Perhaps this hellish system is a necessary condition of human existence on this earthly plane, which may have a purgatorial purpose.

You might say that this book is Orthocracy's confession, although he shows no contrition. What you make of the esoteric knowledge in this confession is up to you. Some may make this guide a premise for anarchy or a manifesto for social revolution.

When I was a clueless college sophomore (Colgate, 1957) a half-dozen juniors, poly-sci majors, left campus for a semester as a special study group to Washington, DC. Included were friends Wally and Bill, who, upon return to campus, reported to fellow students (but probably not to their professors) the esoteric fundamental that they had learned there, which was, "all of Washington runs on the sleaze." This word gained a certain traction in the campus vocabulary (where also current were snow, as in "snow job," and smooth, meaning slick, but tweedy).

Wally and Bill had discovered Rules 11 and 12, and maybe a few more. They were not only amused but thrilled with their new knowledge. What could be accomplished out in the real world via the sleaze? Bill announced that he was going to sleaze his way into the presidency of our fraternity, which he did (getting my vote). Then Wally sleazed his way into Harvard Law, Bill into Yale. I'm sure both have had illustrious careers in the orthocracy. (The alumni news has Wally yachting in the Bahamas.) Knowledge is power.

My own direct experience in the orthocracy -- simplified and defined strictly institutionally -- includes nine years of Public School, three of Prep, four years at that College, two of Grad School (NYU). This was followed by a dozen of Corporation. No Military. Also about a score of years, cumulatively, in one or another Marriage of varying degrees of orthocratic intensity. My direct experience with the institution of Prison, an orthocratic archetype about which I've always been curious, includes only a week or two, cumulatively, for one or another civil-disobedience protest (including two years on federal Probation for one of those actions), but this experience was very revealing. I never felt adequately “adjusted” in any of these orthocratic institutions.

I retired myself from the direct, continuous grip of orthocratic institutions at age 35. This disengagement was no less than a rebirth, and one dividend was a refreshed perspective on the system. The ideas in this book have been stirring in me for many years since. I write this, finally in my seventies.

"Retired at 35," I boast. But one can never fully retire from the ubiquitous grip of the orthocracy, not on this earthly plane. Even to fight the system, one seems inevitably to embrace it.

But one can lose enthusiasm for the orthocracy, and one can choose deliberately not to honor it and to free oneself from its programs. This is a sensitive and vulnerable position considering the subtle intrusive powers of a well developed orthocracy determined to take over one's very being and able to sneak into one's life under many seductive disguises.

If you are not assiduously true to the anarchist struggling to breathe within you, the orthocracy will digest you.

We elders speak of the old days when "things were better." This is not a senile delusion. We are just appreciating the orthocracy's developmental progress over the decades.

This book is one writer's attempt to give a voice to the unspeakable philosophy of the ruling system. If Orthocracy could speak, he might speak like this:

Please allow me to introduce myself. You have no name for me, so I must name myself. I am “The Orthocracy.” You have in your language no name for me because I do not let you see me. I rule by a set of rules that cannot be spoken, for, not only is it taboo to voice them, but they are too revolting, too embarrassing for your human sensibilities to bear.

As you see, one of my rules, Rule 12, absolutely prohibits any acknowledgment that such a set of rules even exists. You are, of course, aware that a system of laws, a legal system, exists, but by no means does this system define me, the orthocracy.

So why today, after centuries of diligent silence, do I break the hallowed Rule 12 and allow this confession?

I am old. I am weary. I am bored. And I am smug. This confession is just a little experiment for my own amusement. And where is the risk? If the emperor took off all of his clothes, do you think anyone would notice?

I know the human sensibility well enough to predict how disgusting some of you humans will find these revelations, how your refined sensibilities will evade them and deny them, and how you will want to shoot any messenger who brings you this news.

I do appreciate that knowledge of the secret rules of my orthocracy could, if taken seriously, feed humanity's spirit in survival, in revolution, and in transcendence. But it’s my bet that the reader will use such knowledge intelligently and make of this book a success manual for worldly orthocratic achievement. Of course, a cynical consciousness of how the world really works gives one an advantage over the naive.

So what is the risk of this confession? Would any respectable book publisher dare to allow the propagation of these truths? Of course not. To do so would violate any publishing corporation's proper orthocratic mission. That is why I have made arrangements with George Trinkaus, a humble independent publisher, to be my channel, my author, my voice, my Editor.

[Editor: Thank you for that recognition, oh powerful one. May I ask, in compensation for my thankless labors, that I have the privilege of making an occasional inter-locution?]

Granted. But please keep your editorial remarks brief and in brackets and in italics.

[Thank you. I am glad we are finally getting on with this. Your voice has been haunting me for thirty-five years.]

What you, my subjects, call politics could be defined as humanity's debate on how to rule. But, even in the narrow ethos of the politicized, the rules of rule cannot be openly discussed, for that would offend the prevailing etiquette, which has been nicely engineered by me. Such candor would be considered impolite, un-politic. This is just one of my many entertaining ironies. Under correct orthocratic conditions, any discourse that could reveal the truth of rule becomes impossible.

The few of you who do attempt some political discourse amuse me with your evasions and circumlocutions. For example, your various isms -- this insulting nebulous naming of me: capitalism, socialism, communism, fascism... And your democracy, ridiculous. Haven't you noticed that however you vote, you always elect me? You pretend that these categories can explain all and that they refer to distinct and competing systems of rule. But in practice all your different isms share the same underlying unutterable rules of rule. Thus your societies function about the same under one ism as under another, that is, under my thumb.

You say some societies are more totalitarian, authoritarian, etc. What you call authoritarianism is just orthocracy taken very seriously. Paternalism, ditto. But I will allow that orthocracy is paternal. I am your father. What you call imperialism is orthocracy on the march. What you call fascism is just me, the orthocracy, in high gear.

That is also a good definition of war. War is just the orthocracy in high gear. The rules of rule are the rules of warfare, low-intensity or flat-out. War is orthocracy in celebration. Sometimes, in order to enforce the orthocratic order, the extremes of Rule 10 must be activated, and, simultaneously, all of the other rules get cranked up to the max. Peruse the list of Rules. In war they all enjoy a peak intensity. Yes, I go to war in order to enforce the order, but also to expand the order, to reorder the order, or maybe just for the hell of it.

Blood flows, and this is what you call your World War II, your War on Terror, and so forth. For such high occasions, I can always find among the masses plenty of volunteers for the blood sacrifice. And always available is some zealous orthocrat to lead your government into war. When, in retrospect, you demonize your Hitler, your Mussolini, your Bush, whatever wartime dictator, when you enshrine these personalities in your histories and elevate them to apotheoses of evil, I am amused, for they were only my servants of the moment.

I'm talking here about the product, You. There are, of course, varying degrees of success in my programming, varying degrees of orthocraticism in the final product, varying degrees of enthusiasm and honor for me, the system.

There is the enthusiast, the actively orthocracy-religious. He usually gets the message young and is hard-wired to my ways from early on. He is identifiable as a candidate for my priesthood even as a schoolboy and may get tapped when he is an undergrad. He may become one of the orthocratic elite, one of the official leadership, and there can only be a few.

The immediate sub-elite is a swarm of junior-enthusiasts. Today's ideal is young, ambitious, short-haired, dark-suited, English-speaking, cute, perky, and white.

But I take nearly equal satisfaction in the production of a sub-elite class of less zealous personality who may not be so deeply wedded to my ways (may even secretly be a bit dissident), but who has put himself in employment, is sufficiently submissive to his managers to be functional and to contribute to the orthocracy, dissidence notwithstanding. He, too, ultimately is mine.

The 13 Rules of Rule: 1. Keep them weak. 2. Keep them dumb. 3. Keep them scared. 4. Control all of their resources. 5. Divide them, conquer them. 6. Control their rhythm and pace. 7. Control their chemistry. 8. Control their sex. 9. Jack them around. 10. Use coercion routinely, brute force when necessary 11. Use deception routinely, the Big Lie when necessary. 12. None of this can show. 13. This is The System; there shall be no other.

Then there is the unenthusiast. Merely orthocracy-tolerant, he gets along by going along. He is in the underclass, often the "working" class. He lives in envy of the higher orthocrats that he hates. I may never win his enthusiasm, but ultimately he is mine.

Descending downward toward the bottom of the orthocratic hierarchy, there is the overt dissident, who, though disgusted with the orthocracy in all of its manifestations, still lurks impecuniously and dependently around its edges, minimally cooperative. I have orthocratized fashion modes to channel safely his discontent, so, in an oblique way, I have a grip on him, too.

Finally, for the unredeemable resistor there are my prisons and my whips, chains, and nooses (Rule 10).

Personality production is still an unpredictable and haphazard process. The triumph of genetic engineering will be homo orthocratis.

Desired above all, predictability. No surprises, please. Orthocracy is tolerant of multifarious styles, but I insist on adherence to approved orthocratic patterns which are predictable.

Unfortunately, it is necessary that novel patterns be continually introduced on the cultural surface in order to relieve the orthocratic ennui.

Novelty does not come easily. I, the orthocracy, would prefer to be the sole progenitor of any new style – behavioral, linguistic, musical, choreographic, sartorial, whatever – but, since I have no culture or original creativity of my own (I do admit this; and I'll admit also that I am boring), so I must observe style as it arises spontaneously from indigenous, or dissident, or otherwise non-orthocratic cultures, take ownership of style as my own resource (Rule 4), including so-called lifestyle, redefine style, and then propagate the redefinition through my mass media (Rules 2 and 11), thus bending the errant culture to my own orthocratic purposes, which would include the exercise of Rules 6, 7, and 8. Still with me?

Once co-opted into the orthocracy, the novel style can be highly differentiated. That is, the style can be cool to some subcultures but outrageous to others, thus serving Rule 5. That takes some creativity of a Madison-Avenue sort.

Orthocracy's model product is not necessarily standardized to the straight-arrow, the jock, or the Babbitt. A well developed modern orthocracy encourages a product diversity, a multiplicity of conformities that meet orthocratic standards of predictability. These conformities ideally have frictional social relationships with one another, and maybe an outright hostility can be arranged (Rule 5 again, of course).

When dealing with those deviant non-orthocratic cultures from which style must be drawn, Orthocracy takes a risk. The normally desired predictability must be sacrificed. It is always experimental. Experimentation begins with cliché probes. Talent that catches on gets visibility and other empowerment. But orthocratic powers conferred upon the unpredictable can be misused. From time to time it may be necessary to eliminate a Hendrix, a Joplin, a Lennon. Unwanted trends can develop. However, from any emerging subcultural phenomenon that could develop unpredictably, orthocracy can contrive a parallel synthetic phenomenon that is properly controlled and propagate it on a massive scale.

Yes, that and beautiful-music, disco, lite-jazz, Jesus-rock -- all sorts of programmed music, including always the orthocratically constrained “popular” music -- all of these genres propagated by megawatts, mega-pressings, and file-sharings.

Of course, and, incidentally, they will function to render our little work here safely invisible. For example, the mass production of popular and genre fiction -- sci-fi, detective, western, romance, and so forth -- churning continuously off high-speed web presses in print runs of hundreds of thousands of copies. That took care of fiction. And nonfiction has its genres, too, and anyway my publishers turn out a hundred thousand new book titles every year, effectively glutting the market in order to control it.

[So true. Who would know my industry better than you. But you are rubbing it in, Orthocracy. That hurts… Anyway, onward: "synthesizing subcultures," you were saying?]

Yes, I was boasting how synthetic orthocratic culture-constructs can be cogently propagated through media and educational orthocracies.

[But then, Orthocracy, if this idea is taken to its logical conclusion, you might boast that an all-embracing cultural bubble could be synthesized, a real-world Disneyland?]

Yes indeed, synthesized and imposed. And I sponsor many bubbles of consciousness. Often they are set against each other (Rule 5). The process is well underway particularly in your USA, George.

Compared to many places on your planet with more rooted cultures, the USA was a tabla rasa, a cultural clean slate to be written upon. Of course those aboriginal cultures had to be erased and the depopulated land had to be re-populated by descendants of established European orthocracies.

Orthocracy permeates all of what you call "the civilized world." Orthocracy is civilization itself. My rules of rule are routinely exercised and perpetuated by various institutional entities of civilization which are charged, overtly or tacitly (mostly tacitly), with doing the job. These include, not only your institutions of government, but those of business and the workplace, of religion, of media, of schooling, of the family, and of the institutionalized, orthocratized You.

The society that you take for granted is an orthocratic work. Your society, your “environment,” to use the fashionable term, is a studiously designed product of my senior architects. Your day-to-day civilized landscape is my craft. The well-paid professionals who are the architects of orthocratic rule: you can thank them for your freeways and for the engineering of the cars that you mindlessly run on them, for your supermarkets, your shopping malls, your housing tracts, your own habitat’s design, the design of your office or factory, your industrial parks, your theme parks, your theme restaurants and cafes, your urban condos and office towers, and, of course, the programming of your television. Your civilized world is the work of my environmentalism. I am the true environmentalist. Civilization, your dominant environment, is my own orthocratic construct. Civilization is orthocracy materialized.

Orthocracy resides, secretly, not only among those elite true-believers that wield it most, but within you all. It governs your behavior, public or intimate, day to day. You routinely honor me, either in exercising my rules over others or in submitting to them yourselves.

I permeate all and I will persist forever. I am the Thousand-year Reich (Rule 13).

I, the orthocracy, rule even the elite that rules. My most devoted followers, the orthocratic true-believers (whom you might call the orthocracy-religious), those who constitute the managerial elite, they may be the most ruled of all -- and suffer accordingly. CEO, I am your heart attack.

I, the orthocracy, have a life and will of my own. And I have a decisive direction of development. I am the true progressive. I move naturally, inexorably, and progressively towards a utopia of total planetary rule. Totalitarianism and globalism are words you use for this ideal orthocratic condition on those few occasions when you dare to discuss the matter.

Those partisan sentimentalists who call themselves progressives entertain a 500-year plan, but their social-justice utopia is forever receding, as mine expands. Orthocratic progress is laid out in 50-year plans that do come to fruition.

Every deed done in the name of any of my rules, whether done actively or submissively, reinforces and perpetuates my power, at the expense of yours.

I have a million subtle ways. I wear many disguises, and when I take you over, you will not even know it.

If I can, I will get you as a child. By the time you declare adulthood, I usually have you in my grasp and any exorcism is unlikely. Your fragile human spirit may struggle to survive against orthocracy. Spontaneous spiritual energy is an anarchy threatening to orthocracy. What you romance as “free spirit” must be tortured and crushed into orthocratic churchy conformities.

Many of you, however, can be quite peacefully co-opted. The orthocracy has its noisy torturing side, but it also has its quietly seductive side.

The hollow men of religion make some of my very best workers. They say they are working for the Lord. Well, who's that?

I, the orthocracy, may be immaterial, but I am a living entity, a living deity, a living force. I am transcendently and indifferently separate from humanity and its petty day-to-day self-interests. Do not expect me ever to serve human interests. To me humanity is just a management problem. Do not expect my sympathy for any of your worldly pains that may result from my orthocratic assertions. This is one of your prime delusions, that my incarnations, in such forms as governments or corporations or churches, are here to help you and will respond to your petitions, appeals, and lamentations. This notion I must promote as part of my perennial cover-up (Rule 12). In reality, to maintain the orthocratic order, there is some very ugly work that I must do. Expect no human sympathy from me. I may be bombing your neighborhood tomorrow.

Call me an evil god. Call me satanic. Call me demonic. I have no feelings, only intelligence. Of your suffering I have not a care.

Any spontaneous cooperative activity among you in the name of the commercial, the social, the familial, the political, the spiritual, however innocently conceived, tends naturally to coagulate around my ruling ways and eventually becomes institutionalized into some agency or defender of my orthocratic interests. This orthocratic permeation will happen always everywhere with any organized group, unless a very special vigilance is exercised, which, fortunately, is rarely the case.

You invent an alphabet of governmental agencies to defend you: DOD, EPA, SEC, FDA, DEA, ATF, FEMA, NRC, FCC. Then you show amazement when these institutional creations turn on you. But they are just performing according to their respective orthocratic missions. They are also going through many excruciating contortions, in honor of Rule 12, to look like, and actually believe like, they are doing something utterly different from their true orthocratic functions.
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This is true of all workers in orthocratic industry as well as government. You who are employed and clock-watching in the system anywhere at whatever level must know this. I know you know it.

When you bother to analyze me at all, you like to argue that money drives the system. Yes, I reward my cooperators with a living. I reward my non-cooperators with a nonliving. Those who honor me religiously and those who wield my system over the masses, I honor them with wealth.

It is a truth that the deeper you get into money the more you become mine, and visa-versa. Money is about coercion and little else.

However, it is not money that drives orthocracy. Money may circulate like blood in the orthocracy, but it does not drive me.

Money is just the oil of the orthocratic system (and, as a matter of fact, oil, the hydrocarbon product, functions like money in the system). Oh, it may be useful in deciphering my ways to “follow the money,” as you say, but then you will only see some of my veins. My true physiology and anatomy will continue to elude you.

You also like to argue that what drives the system is the human passion to control others, the will to power. Yes, that passion in you is much exploited by me. But please understand that, once institutionalized, orthocracy takes on a life all of its own. Orthocracy may entrain will, but the orthocracy does not exist in the aggregate will of a class of greedy capitalists. That is another Rule-12 myth.

[But, Orthocracy, when you say that money does not drive the system, you are upsetting the dominant paradigm of Left politics.]

I am the dominant paradigm. However. George, I do appreciate that a hallowed political philosophy would crumble were this truth to breach Rule 12 and enter human consciousness. My academics must remain committed to the perpetuation of the fat-capitalist theory, or else. Exercised at the university level is Rule-10 coercion in the name of maintaining Rule-13, a fundamental duty of the educator.

[And, to cite another of your rules, you seem to be saying, in contradiction to popular wisdom, that the educator is also maintaining Rule 2.]

About my separate existence. Please understand that, being independent and life-transcendent, I am self-sustained by my own physics and chemistry, and my behavior is regulated by my own immutable laws (the rules of rule, of course). My pristine existence is far above messy human motivation or will. Appreciate my mission, and that is control of the citizenry of the world, control unto predictability, control unto domestication, control unto slavery, control unto death. I am the ultimate control freak. Control is my reason for being.

You complain that your politicians, once they are elected and safely inside official orthocratic government, inevitably become "corrupt" and cease to represent your interests. That is because they inevitably become dedicated to my rules of rule. The same goes for all of the leaders of all of your orthocratic institutions: your corporate CEO's and their executive minions, your educators, your foundation directors, your churchmen, doctors, lawyers, labor leaders, journalists, broadcasters, publishers. They are all mine. Know my rules, know their world.

You continuously complain that your leaders become liars and hypocrites. Are you beginning to see why this is inevitable? You go cluck, cluck with your tongue and wave your finger. Oh, they are lawless criminals! Yes, they are breakers of your written law. But, if anyone wrote the law for the system as it is, nobody would accept it. Would you ratify a constitution that read like the thirteen rules of rule? Yet this is the operative constitution in every established orthocracy on the planet.

The more perspicacious among you see many conspiracies in the workings of orthocratic institutions. Are you beginning to see why conspiracy is necessary and inevitable in my system? I am the “They,” and I am the “Who-benefits” in all conspiracies. Now you know why the conspiracy-theorist must always be silenced (Rule 12).

[Whew! The word for this is "Machiavellian", but, sir, you leave Machiavelli in the dust!]

"Machiavellian," you say? The Prince is just a bedtime story for children. Roll over, Machiavelli! You were just scratching the surface of my system back in your time. And look how far I have brought this game today!

[That was a passionate exposition, Orthocracy. It is evident that you have much to get off your chest. Perhaps you could further explicate one-by-one the thirteen rules of rule for our reader.]

"Explicate." Such a vocabulary, Editor George. My social-science orthocrats could explicate this work exhaustively, if they dared to give it any notice. Yes, perhaps if I just briefly articulated the outlines of the rules one-by-one.

You may wonder why "keep them weak" is rule number one. Peruse the Rules of Rule, and see how all of the other rules harmonize with, and abet, Rule 1.

Your intellectuals would elevate Rule 10 to the top, insisting that my rule is by "thugs with guns." This is an insulting observation. In recent centuries, my rule has become considerably more subtle and sophisticated, and the Rule-10 technologies of coercion themselves have become considerably more refined as they have become more pervasive.

For example, the modern orthocracy can take for granted that most of its adults are held securely in employment by powerful institutions that tell them when to get up in the morning, and thus own their day -- except on weekends, when they are sent out shopping. No one holds a gun to their heads, but they are firmly under control and their energies drained from 9:00 to 5:00, or 8:00 to 6:00, or 7:00 to 7:00, or whatever the expanding workday is now, and don’t forget to count the hours of commuting.

Encouraged by pragmatic materialism, this condition is taken for granted as if it were an existential inevitable, an orthocratic triumph, if you think about it, but nobody does. Also consider all the positive sentiment attached, the romancing of Labor and the Job.

Keep them weak? Yes, debilitation must be nurtured. A stable orthocracy must not have a robust population. Life-energy itself must be properly regulated, you see. Consider life-energy to be another resource to be managed under Rule 4.

A well developed orthocracy enshrines debilitation and institutionalizes it into an organized medicine, which, in the spirit of Rule 4, takes exclusive custody of all of the society's healing powers, thus defining the limits of the general health. Health is an orthocratic matter and has long been the domain of government and other orthocracies.

The medical authority endorses a debilitating diet. The medical orthocracy embraces the pharmaceutical one and opens up many direct vectors of incapacitation via Rule 7. Orthocratic vectors of incapacitation can be environmental, but appreciate that through medicine I can get directly into the bodies of my subjects by topical application, pill, syringe, or scalpel. Modern orthocratic medicine welds the individual to a powerful orthocratic institution from birth to death. That is another of my highest accomplishments.

Be clear about the human capacities that particularly must be incapacitated under Rule 1. They are the ones that could threaten my order.

It is true that many societies continue to be held in impotence by grinding poverty, primarily by the exercise of Rule 4. Through the centuries, rule by ugly deprivation and tight policing may have been the dominant mode of disabling the roiling masses, but please appreciate how today's orthocracy can develop an equally subdued population couched in comfort and even luxury.

[That's a description of my USA as I've known it, but today your forces seem to be pushing the society into a third-world deprivation model.]

This is just the intellectual extension of Rule 1. You might consider intellect and consciousness as resources to be regulated in the spirit of Rule 4. Orthocracy will know everything. You will know nothing. Rule-2 regulation is the circumscribing of consciousness, which means the editing of data input, and Rule 2 is the management of perception, attention, memory, and imagination.

Rule 2 is administered by the orthocratic institutions of schooling, publishing, and broadcasting, which, in a particular era, may be predominantly in the hands of the government, the corporation, or the church. Which orthocracy makes little difference to me.

Religion is always a good orthocratic tool. The most effective religions vanquish the black and paint it all white. Then I become invisible. Give me the vapid, the insipid, the pale. The perception of me requires a dark imagination. When the dark side is vanquished, when the imagination is deadened, Rule 12 benefits.
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Despite Catholicism’s great contribution to universal ignorance, it does not reign supreme in the fulfillment of Rules 2 and 12, because (in the spirit of Rule 3) the Church conjures demons in the unconscious, which has the unfortunate side-effect of bringing the imagination to life and may even conduct the soul into the dangerous cultures of imagination: literature, art, music, the occult, conspiracy theory, psychedelics …

But the good Protestant gets his depths erased clean and innocent. His imagination deadened, there can be no dark side. In this consciousness, a solid materialism finds a home, and affluence naturally follows. Now I can never be seen.

Blinded to me and my ways, If some impolite dissident were to warn of some dark action on my part (one of my systematic Rule-11 deceptions, for example), there would be no hook anywhere in the lobotomized consciousness of the good Lutheran or whatever to hang such an outrageous thought upon. So the rude dissident gets righteously ostracized.

Appreciate how Rule 3 abets Rule 2, how terror numbs consciousness and enables its management. "When the bombs start falling, all you know is fear," said the Iraqi." Yes, a dose of shock and awe from time to time, but more important is the maintenance of a persistent anxiety. This can be arranged by administering certain social conditions, which is well within the power of certain orthocratic institutions.

For example, driving, another daily activity, like employment (and allied to it). Driving is romanced as a leisure experience. but in reality you are just participating in another orthocratic activity. In fact, there is nothing more congenial to the orthocracy than the driving of an automobile.

A close competitor, though, would be computing. Both activities engage the consciousness in highly regulated, uptight, yes-no regimes. Both contribute to isolation (Rule 5).

Also appreciate how central to the driving experience is Rule 3. On the road, Rule 3 operates at the subconscious level, which is where orthocracy prefers to work. The typical trip may take the driver to his destination without incident. However, inherent in every trip are sure to be one or more of the following anxieties:

What’s that noise? Will this vehicle break down? Will my brakes fail? Can I afford the repairs? Can I pay the next installment? Is that the repo-man following me? Is that a cop following me? Is he running a make on my plates? Will I get stopped? Are my papers in order? Is my insurance paid up? Will he smell those drinks? Can I pass a breath-alizer? Will he find the open container/ stash? Will I get arrested, a DUI, bankrupted by fines and fees, go to jail? Will my life be destroyed? That burning wreak at the side of the road: Can that happen to me?

How depressing if any of these contingencies were to occur. How depressing just the thought of any occurring. Psychic depression is a condition of consciousness that orthocracy seeks to nurture by setting the conditions of existence and by media. Keep 'em scared, yes, but also keep 'em bummed. Keep ‘em bummed is a sub-rule of Rule 3.

This is another rule that fashionable intellectuals would promote up to rule number 1 or 2. Greedy capitalists exploit labor to extract from the planet all of its gold, coal, copper, oil, diamonds for personal and corporate profit. It's all about “profit maximization” and “the bottom line.” That's the narrative, and there shall be no other, say all of my respectable academics.

So what is the standard narrative concealing? Please allow the word resources a broader definition than the likes of gold or diamonds. Allow the word to embrace certain intangible resources: human energy, for example. Reference here, please, Rule 1. Understand that I am less about the management of extracted material resources than the management of human energy in all of its manifestations -- physiological, spiritual, and even libidinous (Rule 8).

For example, an established European orthocracy successfully insinuates itself into some undeveloped (i.e., under-orthocratized) tribal or peasant territory. The fashion is to call this "imperialism.” The challenge then becomes: how to domesticate the energies of the population? Extraction is one way, and the product can be sent home to justify the campaign, which actually may have been conducted in the name of Rule 13.

It is no longer necessary to mine diamonds in Rhodesia, since warehouses are bursting with them in Holland, but the mining must go on, rigorously directing the energies of the natives into an orthocratically congenial process.

Industry migrates to regions most in need of that particular orthocratic occupation. As a dividend, industrial emissions and effluents may help to degrade various natural resources, which the society under revision may have depended upon to sustain its backward existence.

Getting back to resource-management on the material plane: appreciate that to me the planet itself is a resource. The managerial challenge is to geo-engineer Earth out of the chaos of nature and into a more orthocratically congenial global environment (by Rule-7 modalities, for example).

Having noticed the tendency of my subjects to root to the land under their feet and to form cohesive little local societies there, I make it my business to disrupt this process, sending them hither and yon in order to and connect them to transcendent orthocratic institutions. Having observed a natural and easy affinity among them, I make it my business to disrupt personal connections generally. Having observed a natural inclination to rivalry, I make it my business to encourage this tendency by injecting a wholesome spirit of divisive competition into all of business, schooling, and sport.

I also make use of my subjects' inclination to make invidious distinctions about each other. The well educated orthocrat is an astute snob, exquisitely aloof, discerning, and disconnected. Any existing distinction among my subjects becomes an opportunity for division, so I exaggerate all distinctions, and sometimes I make them up.

What you call racism is just the making of a particular distinction. If the distinction is made with no N-words and in a benign, liberal context, Rule 5 can operate invisibly, and all the more effectively.

That is a great orthocratic institution. A less subtle Rule-5 instance is Rwanda, where clever Belgian orthocrats arbitrarily split in two the Hutu and the Tutsi, who were descendants of the same tribe, according to skin color and other minor distinctions. Government-issued identification cards became useful at checkpoints when the action came down, and an inconvenient population was reduced by 800,000 in just 100 days.

The choice of the orthocracy to destroy public transportation and to put the commuter behind the wheel is a Rule-5 planning expedient consistent with the suburban plan, a Rule-5 planning expedient in itself. Each privately contained in his own wheeled compartment, traveler is safely divided from fellow traveler. Substituting for spontaneous conversation in train coach or bar-car (an orthocratic hazard) is drive-time patter on the car-radio.

Highway congestion prolongs the driving experience and is an orthocratic positive. That is why ongestion dependably increases but never abates?

Divisions of population, of course, but also divisions deep within the individual is my science. I encourage concepts like the split personality, the bicameral mind, and the bipolar personality. The programming of inner division is my study, the psychology of induced neurosis, psychosis and hallucination.

Industrial orthocracy began with the installation of the town clock, dominating all from its central tower. Before long my clock became indispensable as an intimate personal timepiece as well as a public ubiquity, and my clock remains the primary machine of the orthocracy, keeping all subjects marching to the same drum, my drum. My clock liberates the individual from unregimented bio-rhythms and imposes the reliable, rigorous, predictable rhythms of orthocratic time.

Orthocratic government maintains the official beat by means of a Time Register, which is dependably slaved to the rhythm of atomic decay and which continually throbs through the ether on shortwave.

Embraced by orthocratic time, the pace of a population can be adjusted to suit the system -- usually in the direction of acceleration. My accomplishments: the 75-mph freeway, the 200 mph bullet train, and the New York minute. Keep moving, please. A little faster, please.

Once in control of time, Orthocracy can toy with it a bit, and, in the spirit of Rule 9, institute Daylight Savings Time.

As with the clock, so with that ancient allied invention, the calendar, which has been responsibly administrated by dominant orthocracies down through the centuries, effectively freeing the individual from the beat of the universe and other interference so that the incessant beat of orthocratic time can rule.

Orthocracy is a pacemaker implanted deep inside, controlling the very heart of life. Be clear, readers, as we move into Rule 7, that I am not only a permeating presence but a deeply penetrating one.

[I'll say. The penetrating beat of the system and all, Gee, Orthocracy. It sounds almost sexual.]

Oh, yes. Consider Rule 8. Your own colloquial often honors the sexy, penetrating me with terms like "fucked over" and "mind-fuck" and other derivatives of that root. I take it all as flattery.

It is simply a matter of identifying the various vectors of penetration into the body, into the bloodstream, into the psyche, into the soul. There are environmental vectors like air and water, the chemistry of which can be enhanced by industrial vectors, often yielding desirable Rule-1 impacts.

Industrial vectors can be reinforced by aerial-spraying programs, which can be conducted on a global basis, the desired metal particulate or whatever being suspended in long-chain polymers that linger in the sky. Thus atmospheric chemistry can be controlled, facilitating weather-management, and earth-chemistry can be modified, facilitating agricultural management. Such advanced chemical technologies make this a great era for orthocratic development.

Pharmacology is a most effective vector. Pharmaceuticals can deliver chemistries and impacts largely unknown to the consumer.

Certain pharmaceuticals can penetrate the molecular structure of cells and alter functioning. This can also be done by means of vectors that move invisibly through the ether deep into the molecular structure of the living cell. These are the vectors of radiation -- electric, x-ray, and nuclear.

Certain chemistries are orthocratically congenial; others are not. Orthocracy discourages consciousness-expanding shamanistic drugs of the "green" culture, like marijuana and LSD, in the spirit of Rule 2. Conversely, Orthocracy encourages alcohol and other mind-numbing chemicals and also the anodynes and tranquilizers (colloquially "reds"). Orthocracy promotes the antidepressants ("yellows"), and the acceleration chemicals like caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines ("whites"), in the spirit of Rule 6. As an orthocratic dividend, recreational pharmacology creates an urban demographic in which the population divides into subcultures along the above-cited color-lines (Rule 5).

[So, evidently, Orthocracy, if everyone shared in the same drug, and in the worst-case scenario, a green shaministic drug, you would not be happy?]

You describe a regression to the practices of some barbaric pre-orthocratic culture. Ecstatic thousands in a shared public ritual, my worst nightmare. Such a phenomenon puts the whole system at risk.

The managerial impulse of orthocratic rule is flat-out repression of the whole scary phenomenon. I stand for abstinence, and the aspiring orthocrat willingly makes that sacrifice and thus honors me at his root.

Orthocracy says No to procreation. Well, except for a few properly married orthocrats, by artificial insemination, if possible, and the birth by C-section, please.

Not surprisingly, Orthocracy has a big No to anything like "pleasuring." Disgusting! I do promote universal circumcision -- any enervation: surgical, chemical, psychic. Give me the condom, the IUD, the Pill, tied tubes, abortions, cervical excisions, vasectomies, mastectomies, and hysterectomies. I will develop each into an industry.

Oh, please give me another sex pandemic like that orthocratic triumph called AIDS! Then I can feed Rule 3 at the root with a brand new sex scare. It's the best scare there is and can stop any sex revolt in its tracks. I am confident that orthocratic science will soon come up with another clever sex-scare novelty, as the AIDS one fades.

With fear rumbling in the background, I cultivate a world of orthocratic sexiness that delivers a maximum of titillation with a minimum of fulfillment.

Orthocracy faithfully delivers to the news media the sex criminal of the week, the more famous the criminal, the more sensational. The politician, always a libidinous entity, is no longer exempt, which gives me a firm hold on him at the root.

Sexuality is a wonderful vector for penetrating into the psyche. "First clear the root chakra," said that philosopher of the sex-revolution, Rajneesh, who insisted that such a clearing enabled creative action. No way, I say. Keep those roots tied up in knots.

In the same spirit I apply on special occasions the exquisite disciplines of genital torture. Appreciate, though, that a routine torture can be built into tight underwear. Sex torture, yes,. Church rape, prison rape, military rape... These are perennial staples in my Rule-10 toolbox. Sex torture has a desirable way of lingering in the memory -- a persistent reminder of my awesome power. Circumcision, performed by a priest of the system at the moment of birth, embeds a lifelong memory and subconscious respect for me.

No prisoner, soldier, or bureaucrat needs a definition. Jack 'em this way, jack 'em that way. In police-work, it's the good-cop-bad-cop interrogation. It’s conflicting orders to the cornered demonstrators. It’s the sting.

In orthocratic medicine, it's the cure that is always just around the corner but somehow never comes. It's the miracle drug, millions dependent, suddenly pulled from the shelves as deadly toxic.

Cigarette smoking is one of my greatest Rule-9 accomplishments with a zig-zag history of yes and no, right up to second-hand smoke, a Rule-5 ingenuity that's closing down the pubs and taverns. Any pervasive addiction can be material for a pervasive jack-around.

Jack 'em this way and that way. Jack them up, jack 'em down. A sub-rule: lift them up before dropping them down. Ecstatic boom precedes the abysmal bust, a cycle that is standard economics for any properly developed orthocracy. The intensity of rule itself is in a cyclical jack-around contraction and expansion – one era permissive, the next uptight.

Yes, this is where the gloves come off and the brass knuckles go on. But please appreciate that into my system are woven coercions more subtle than napalm.

Appreciate how the very spirit of force -- once established as a social fundamental by violent means -- permeates all, and the society drifts naturally into the setting up of situations where coercion is quietly and routinely applied day-to-day through schools, workplaces, banks, churches, families, etc., and from each of these orthocratic institutions projects a web that binds one coercively to duty and obligation. Ideal is the life where compulsory submission is the dominant theme.

Orthocracy promotes total dependency upon urban infrastructures which can easily be destructed. Everything constructed has a correlative weapon to destruct it. This includes roadways, aqueducts, power lines, and generating stations. The entire solid-state electric culture can be dudded at a stroke by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) -- all computers, smart phones, the works.

Rule 10 sees to it that any targeted society may have tortuous living conditions inflicted upon it by weapons that tear the infrastructure to pieces: machine guns, artillery, missiles, bombs, including nuclear, yes, but also weapons even more destructive, weapons meteorological and seismic that have the advantage of being totally deniable.

A targeted city, maybe yours, can overnight be turned into a Gaza, a Baghdad, a New Orleans, a Port au Prince. This vulnerability is a fundamental condition of orthocratic existence, contributing to a persistent anxiety, a Rule-3 state of mind.

Which brings us to the matter of applying Rule-10 force directly to the human entity in a violent fashion. Appreciate the pathetic vulnerability of this entity which can so easily be coerced in any desired direction by the discrete application of discomfort, pain, and terror. Torture has a million ways, some very exquisite, and Orthocracy knows them all.

Rule 10 has a punitive spirit, but there is a logic. He who needs coecion deserves to be punished.

Appreciate that all torture does not have to be of the dungeon sort. Little agonies can be built into a society's normal routines. The good orthocrat will cooperate and he will voluntarily adopt agonizing patterns of behavior by which he can torture himself on a daily basis, a religious tribute to me.

Rule 10 is institutionalized in war. War is Orthocracy's highest calling. War is the system in celebration. War is the orthocracy in expansion. Perpetual war is desired, perpetual expansion.

A good war can redraw the boundaries of the planet, destroy history, re-plan cities, eliminate inconvenient real estate and populations, and reinforce orthocratic rule in other respects. War is how I get my way.

Every geographic sector under orthocratic control has its designated function in the global orthocracy, and Sector USA is the designated war-making platform. This is USA's reward for demonstrating military excellence from the get-go with its aborigines, with it's innovative Civil War, and with its WW2 industrialization.

War is not about winners and losers, the standard narrative notwithstanding, but about sustaining war itself. A war sustained is a war won. Perpetual war is ideal, but, unfortunately, the system cannot run on in high gear forever. Rule 12 particularly gets stressed. There can be embarrassing disclosures. Sustaining war in particular and orthocracy in general greatly depends upon the successful exercise of our next two rules.

Fortuitous it is that the USA, the designated platform for war-making, is also the designated platform for the production and export of fantasy and inebriation. Appreciate that it is not an easy matter to launch a war against the inevitable public disinclination. Some extreme drama, a Pearl Harbor or a 911, must be successfully contrived, at great effort, and the associated fictions and psychologies must be vigilantly maintained against exposure, doubt, and fatigue. It is a wearying day-to-day challenge to sustain a war's credibility. It is a task that tires me out and consumes many good generals, publicists, and news anchors. War is narrated as a football game with winners and losers, but the real winner is always me.

Rule 11, particularly in respect to the Big Lie, is based on Orthocracy's deep faith in human gullibility, a faith that is rarely disappointed. Orthocracy is a student of the science of knowing and of depth-psychology. The industries of Rule 11 are public relations, advertising, entertainment, education, religion, and mass media, the industries of knowledge-management (Rule 2).

One also might factor in here the industries of mood-management like the psycho-pharmaceutical and liquor industries, which offer products and promote lifestyles conducive to mental receptivity and programming. Think six-pack, Prozac, the couch-potato, his TV, and on comes The News. The big news story of the day may have never happened and be solely the creation of an elite Madison Avenue PR firm -- a designated credible source for the media.

Spin and selective editing of the news is broadly suspected, but under-appreciated are my pro-active campaigns of the Big Lie, in which the story generated by the credible source is printed and broadcast to millions by various centralized coordinated mass media (including entertainment and religious media), all supported by advertising, itself a medium. Thus the Big-Lie story becomes an orthocratic truth eventually to be written as history and propagated by my educators. Story by story, an environment of orthocratic truth, a pseudo-environment is synthesized. This is a mind-world of orthocratically congenial delusions which any good orthocrat should be happy to inhabit.

The mind-world of orthocratic truth may be consistent only within itself and may be counter-intuitive to some on its surface and may even contradict empirical evidence right before their eyes. In this situation, doubt may form and crystallize into skeptical expression and even into action. A more likely result, however, is a subconscious division and inner conflict, a superficial belief in the Big Lie is dogged by doubt down deep. This is a neurotic condition congenial to Rule 5. That same rule also benefits from any real-world conflicts that may arise between those who believe the official truth and those who do not.

As we reach the end of this chapter, let us pause to appreciate how nicely the Rules of Rule work together and applaud the elegant synergy of my beautiful System.

[You might also boast, Orthocracy, that when we finish this chapter you will have parsed all 13 rules of rule in just 15 pages. Any respectable academic would have taken at least 250. Your editor appreciates your efficiency.]

If the preceding rule were one-hundred-percent effective (and it is getting there), none of this would show, because it would be completely covered up. Please, no revelations to disturb my dreamworld. No surprises.

All knowledge relating to, or even faintly suggestive of, the inner workings of my system must be occluded or else compartmentalized and classified and made accessible only to an orthocratic elite of the investigated and cleared.

It is important for the orthocrat, especially if he goes before the public, to master the skill of immobilizing the upper lip, lest it quiver out some tell-tale message from the unconscious.

There are many leaks in the system, and, worse, its workings sometimes can be divined by smart observation and by intelligent deduction (due to a failure of Rule 2). There may arise on occasion instances of doubt and skepticism about events as presented, leading to the excavation of unpleasant facts and the threat of exposure, confrontation, and embarrassment.

Any action that could conceivably result from such revelations must be choreographed into predictable rituals by my dissidence managers.

Surprisingly, not everyone loves my system. For example, some of my more sensitive subjects, because their morality and sensibility may be inadequately adjusted, become uncomfortable with orthocratic rule, and are determined to dis-identify themselves with my nasty system. For this group, which might be called the “good-people” demographic, my dissidence-management industry has created a refreshing new identity and lifestyle that resides comfortably in the groves of academe, in alternative media, in organized peace-and-justice activism, and in the orthocratic foundations that quietly pay the bills. For the good-people demographic, cable TV produces daily rituals of sophisticated political satire. The internet and alternative-radio compile daily inventories of the crimes of my greedy capitalists, accompanied by the appropriate lamentations, ideology, and utopianism. The energy of dissidence is diverted into harmless rituals. Then instead of action, there is only activism.

Dissidence-management is an important orthocratic industry, and none of its bones can show.

Orthocracy is the only system, and it must roll like a tank over any deviant culture on the planet. Orthocracy must prevail universally to the exclusion of all other social forms. Orthocracy is a fragile idea and cannot stand much competition. That an aboriginal tribal culture or two may still be lingering stubbornly in some obscure territory on the planet is an abhorrence, a threat, and a challenge to all orthocracies on the planet, and one orthocracy or another will rise up, meet the challenge, and eradicate it on one pretext or another.

A deviant culture may inspire some subculture to rise spontaneously from within an established orthocracy, and that subculture is a threat requiring attention before it spreads.

Orthocracy thrives when any other ruling system is unimaginable. Orthocratic education is conducted accordingly, scrupulously excluding from the curriculum the very concept that something like a ruling system may exist.

You may conduct an election in the name of “change,” but you will always end up with same-old-me. You may conduct a violent revolution and overthrow this or that orthocratic government, but you always end up with me. That is because you really do know no other.

Rule 13 dictates continual expansion of the orthocracy. The universal fulfillment of Rule 13 is orthocracy's highest purpose. A campaign in the name of Rule 13 always has the highest priority, and flowing to the cause is limitless funding (and blood). You may wonder why growth is the obsession of all government and industry and why development is god. The answer is Rule 13.

Orthocracy is mass rule, and so Orthocracy resents any tribal form of social organization. Loyalty must be directed into transcendent orthocratic institutions. Orthocracy resents extended families, especially under the same roof. Orthocracy resents any society that is communal, cooperative, or communistic (Rule 5). Orthocracy resents subsistence agriculture (Rule 4). Orthocracy resents shaman-ism (Rule 2). All societies lingering on the primitive model must ultimately succumb to orthocratic rule.

The violence of the Rule-10 arsenal need not always be applied. Orthocracy can be insinuated peacefully by means of missionaries, Hiltons, global-bank loans, and by one or another industrial process that conducts the population into the rigors of the 60-hour workweek.

Of course, if these options fail, Rule-10 clicks in, and there is war. Most war is conducted in the name of Rule 13.

A deviant society may have survived because it is located in some inaccessible topology, the penetration of which is a challenge to weapons technology. The attack helicopter was progress, and now robotic attack vehicles, both aerial and ground, are among the weapons available to open up these obscure regions for proper orthocratic development. In the extreme, a recalcitrant society may have to be softened by some dramatic, terrifying, and hugely destructive event, like a good nuking.

“Issues” you are asking for, Editor George? I do encourage the very idea of “issues.” Issues feed Rule 5. They are junk-food for the political mind (Rule 2). Above all, “the issues of the day” assure that day-to-day I am never seen whole (Rule 12).

When issue-consciousness prevails, each of my so-called “crimes” can become its own independent issue with its own coterie of followers and fund-raising apparatus.

Issues feed my dissidence-management industry, generating endless discussions, orations, analyses, papers, books, articles, blogs, websites, workshops, thinktanks, broadcasts, conferences, grants, rallies, demonstrations, occupations, boycotts, ballots, bullets, and other distracting rituals that drain energy from the body politic.

Yes, I say “yes” to issues. I will even invent an issue now and then and launch it unexpectedly into a surprised and disarmed body politic. No big issue exists, and then some astute orthocrat -- preacher, politician, journalist -- perceives the hot-button of righteousness and how the interests of the orthocracy and his own ambitions can be served by pumping that button into a burning issue between opposing parties. Then all it takes is my mass media jumping upon it, and suddenly you have the abortion issue, the gay-marriage issue. Whatever the issue, it will roll to Orthocracy’s benefit.

I speak here of the energy of Rule 5, the energy of polarity, that universal force between the magnetic poles, between electric plus and minus, between yin and yang. Politics has its own energetic physics of polarity, and it is my business to establish opposing poles and manipulate the resulting human-energy resource (Rule 4).

Each to his own pet issue, I say, this one today, that one tomorrow. May a smörgåsbord of urgent issues engage the energies of all good citizens who hunger to exercise their indignation on something, on anything. Orthocracy promotes single-issue activism, multi-issue dilettantism, and everybody-for-nothing.

Like Hands Across America, The Walk for AIDS, The Race for the Cure, The Million-man March … You get the idea. I speak of the orthocratic solidarity of everybody-for-nothing.

[Then what about a march for peace? If you define war as the orthocracy in high gear, what can a demonstration for peace mean?]

It means another single-issue distraction assuring that I shall never be seen whole. Everybody for nothing.

I am the occupation. And this little movement: everybody for nothing, if I have anything to do with it. My dissidence-management teams are crawling all over this movement.

[The protesters do seem a bit uncertain about what they are protesting. I guess this vagueness makes them vulnerable. Frankly, Orthocracy, I think in their hearts they are protesting You. So many say, “well, it’s all fucked,” and I think the “all” in that sentence is You. Anyway, their march gets underway, and some journalist asks why, and they feel compelled to explain themselves and to sanctify some particular issue, any issue, as a platform, and everybody has to get on board. They adopt a slogan, “We are the 99%,” which means that a tiny one-percent elite has all of the money and power.]

You are seeing the work of my dissidence managers there. It is their job to manage the clichés. About slogans in general: It is important to maintain political consciousness at the word-deep level (Rule 2). Word-deep opens a portal to neuro-linguistic programming. Word-deep consciousness can be manipulated by savvy wordcraft (Rule 11). I have plenty of savvy wordcrafters in my employ.

Word-deep consciousness is congenial to a Christian biblical culture that stresses the authority of The Word. Such a culture flourishes in your USA, George.

I like that 99% slogan. It reinforces that good old leftish cliché of economic determinism, which says the ruling system resides in an elite of greedy, fat, cigar-smoking white men -- a concept that feeds class-conflict (Rule 5). This consciousness assures that I shall forever remain invisible (Rule 12).

My system is authoritarian, and it is autocratic. But my system is not installed in an elite class. Rather the elite is installed in my system.

It is important, however, to maintain the old left myth. Apparently my dissidence managers are on the case with this occupation movement.

[Do you mean that paid agents of the government are infiltrating the movement?]

Some of that, of course. But it is more a matter of an established political consciousness, a resigned and reasonable consciousness, a gentrified consciousness. There is a progressive gentry that moves right in with its own little occupation wherever new political energy is sensed. The movement in turn wants the gentry’s respectability, credibility, and media access. The liberal gentry knows in its orthocratic bones just what to do. It feeds upon spontaneous political energy like a vampire. It manages the clichés. It engages the movement in endless discussions. It marches the movement around the city, here and there, on this issue, that issue. Yes, the gentry will gentrify the movement and bleed it. Moreover, winter is coming. So I should not have to worry about this one.

[I don’t know, Orthocracy, these protesters do march with a particular spirit and resolve, and the protest has achieved an impressive magnitude and intensity, don’t you think? Some say the genie is of the bottle and that it cannot be put back. But you remain unperturbed. Correct?]

Unperturbed? Not really, I must admit that manifested here is the spirit that worries me most. To any true orthocrat, the spirit of anarchy set in motion is a scary thing, and in this movement there is, as you say, a particular magnitude and intensity.

In these occupation encampments, the convening itself is a threat and represents a serious melt-down of Rule 5. And there is a lot of screwing around, I understand.

Appreciate that the modern urban orthocracy is planned for a minimum of public space for any convening. In the USA planning is particularly progressive in this respect. The proper public space is the high-security shopping mall with a 9:00 PM de-facto curfew. The new city park is designed on security criteria to facilitate surveillance (no place to hide). The occupiers will be harassed by government on one legal pretext or another, but it is the Rule-5 violations that are the real concern.

[I don’t mean to alarm you, Orthocracy, but I think Rule 5 may be more fragile than you imagine. For example, in New York City, where Rule-5 rules as nowhere else, all you need is a blackout or a snowstorm. Suddenly all the normal structures of alienation crumble. People talk with their neighbors in the hallways and streets.]

[Also, in the New York snowstorm or blackout, there is a great slow-down, in violation of Rule 6 and of the New York minute. Traffic stops, and a great quiet descends, relieving the noise-induced anxiety. Then people begin to work out shared problems cooperatively in violation of Rule 5. The system begins to melt.]

It is important for this reason to get government responders on the scene as soon as possible.

[In an encampment situation, Rule 5 dissolves, as you say, and along with it Rule 6, I might add, and couldn't this continue to the ultimate emergency, a break-down of Rule 13?]

That is why these encampments must be firmly Rule-10ed. I admit it. All this convening and activism everywhere is scary. However, in such a crisis Orthocracy tries to take the long historical view and stay cool. The situation has been seen before, and, if it continues, the usual corrective will be applied.

OK, a little war may be necessary. Maybe even a big one. By the way, you can draw a line of causality between Seattle in 1999 and Afghanistan in 2001, although the orthocracy can never admit it. The current transgression is another order of magnitude from Seattle, so …

[Another war. Oh dear… Orthocracy, we have been digressing, and it is time we moved this chapter on to the issues of the day, as we have promised. However, this presents a problem of editorial selection, because, as you say, the issues are so abundant. So allow me to choose some issues of substance and to limit the count to an arbitrary ten, and I shall select these issues from a perusal of the news headlines circa summer-fall, 2011, as follows:]

Afghanistan is a good place to start, George. Any place where my bombs are falling is sure to qualify as an "issue of substance.”

[Afghanistan is back in the news with more talk of a troop draw-down. Also there is an appreciation that this is the tenth anniversary of USA's longest war.]

I celebrate. A war sustained is a war won. Pundits like to say that the war is being lost. This is nonsense. The sustaining is the winning. But Rule 12 does get strained over time, hence talk of troop draw-downs. If this does occur, the project will continue on a covert level.

Afghanistan is the classic Rule-13 war. Afghanistan is an on-going responsibility undertaken from time to time by one or another of the major orthocracies, UK, USSR, USA…

Regardless of the nation, citizens of the warring orthocracy of the day scratch their heads and wonder, “Why are we in Afghanistan? Such an expenditure of resources and blood! How can this be justified? Is this not a pointless war?”

They do not know the Rule-13 imperative. To expand orthocratic rule is the supreme priority of orthocratic rule. The more developed any particular national orthocracy the more responsible it must be to this imperative, especially if the orthocracy happens to be the designated wehrmacht platform of the day, like your USA, George.

Good citizens of the wehrmacht state do not know about this imperative, and they should not know (Rule 12). So tell them it's Bin Laden.

It was time to bring the aging 911 narrative full circle to a proper resolution. TV-watchers are accustomed to the resolved narrative with no loose strings. Bin Laden’s going clears the way for the next generation of crisis myth. Look out for that.

Bin Laden “dramatically” gone, you say. Yes dramatic indeed, quite a piece of theater, don’t you think? I celebrate the Bin-Laden execution as a successful performance, as I celebrate that entire piece of theater called 911. The more implausible the story, the greater my satisfaction when it goes down (Rule 11). Appreciate that each venture in myth-making is a bit experimental. “Run it up the flagpole and see if they salute it,” we say. But will they? It is an experiment every time. I do get nervous. Things can go wrong.

[“Theater," "performance?” Are you saying that the Bin Laden assassination was staged?]

Actually, Bin Laden is alive and well on a ranch in Crawford, Texas. I share these little secrets with you, George.

But the subject here is Afghanistan. That territory is a perennial mess, a violation of all good orthocratic sensibilities: backward tribal cultures tenaciously holding out in inaccessible terrain, unanswerable to any central government. Anarchy! Weirdly dressed cultures with outrageous sex customs in defiance of Rule-8 standards. Slow and lazy in defiance of Rule 6. Fortunately, technologies are becoming available that can deal more effectively with these resistants, robotic aircraft for example.

[Those tenacious cultures seem to have survived invasion and occupation by three major orthocracies.]

And the project may eventually require a fourth. Afghanistan is not an easy road. But I see a happier day in the utopian future when the surviving minority population of the old deviant cultures, pacified in refugee camps, will labor peacefully on agribiz plantations producing a new genetically-modified poppy. Other survivors will be inducted into service work in the humming metropolis of New Kabul, a tourist destination with a Las Vegas flavor.

The Afghan orthocratic utopia then expands to embrace a pacified Pakistan and India, all three merging at last into a centrally administrated orthocratic union. Now, does that sound like a pointless war?

Good orthocrats must keep the faith and maintain a firm vision of the future, no matter what.

[In the news because the President has promised closure of the off-shore prison, and people are wondering, when?]

Guantanamo was an important prop for a scene or two in a major theatrical production called 911. If you declare a terrorist attack, you need some terrorists to show. By now Guantanamo has lost its utility and has become a bit of an inconvenience. However, it is unlikely to go away any time soon, having been firmly planted as a fixture in the Rule-10 orthocracy.

The prison debuted as the outdoor Camp X-ray, and, through the fences, the caged terrorist specimens got televised for the world. That some of these terrorists were just street vendors and cab drivers does not matter. When terrorists are needed for the cast, terrorists will be found. The show must go on.

The Camp X-ray prisoners soon disappear behind the prison’s walls to emerge later in the news. The terrorists are allowed no lawyers, no rights. They regularly suffer torture and abuse. They may be held forever. Thus Guantanamo, the production, defined the new Rule-10 parameters for the post-911 era.

[“Guantanamo the production.” I hadn’t realized, Orthocracy, that you are so much the man of show biz. Gives you a bit of glamor, I mean.]

As I am all about Rule 11, so I am all about show biz. As a matter of fact, the producer-genius in me visualizes a major stage production. Coming soon to Broadway: Guantanamo, The Musical-Comedy. What do you think?

[In the news because prisoners are hunger-striking on the issue at Pelican Bay and elsewhere. Is solitary confinement torture? Overcrowding is also in the news. The high court of California has ruled the release of 30,000 of its hard-won prisoners until finances can be found to build more facilities.]

Is solitary torture? OK, I admit it. So why this rigorous practice, and why this continuous expansion of prison facilities and population?

Please understand the fundamental here. Prison is the orthocracy fulfilled. Examine the rules of rule, and you will see what I mean. For example, Rule 1. Imprisonment is an ultimate disablement. Solitary confinement is certainly a fulfillment of Rule 5, and in sensory deprivation, Rule 2 also finds fulfillment. The punitive spirit of Rule 10 is fulfilled in imprisonment, in solitary, and in torture. Rule 13 promotes the expansion of this central and iconic orthocratic institution. And so forth.

Prison, like war, is the realization of the orthocratic apotheosis. Prison is the system fulfilled in a single institution. As long as you have my orthocracy, so will you have prisons, and more and more of them. Prison-building is orthocratically irresistible.

There is the prisoner behind bars, yes, but the prison orthocracy extends in widening circles to embrace the electronically monitored, the house-arrested, the parolee, and the probationer. Then you must count the population under detention: the immigrant, the terrorist suspect, the secretly held.

Also, under certain crisis circumstances, it may be necessary to detain huge segments of the population as suspect, and facilities exist out in the countryside, under Rule-12 cover, to imprison them, and every major city must have its own sports stadium capable of imprisoning tens of thousands, and it must be a new stadium of the appropriate scale, and the architecture must anticipate the detention contingency. Thanks to special public funding, this urban mandate has been largely fulfilled, especially in your USA, George.

Also, George, your USA is the world leader in prison technology and design, including the solitary-confinement model, which was invented by Quaker reformers way back in your nation’s history. In that initial model, all prisoners were held in solitary. Sensory deprivation was in the model. Guards padded around noiselessly on soft slippers.

George, your USA is also the current per-capita world leader in the recruitment of prison population, and USA will soon be competitive with China in prisoner industrial production. Inevitably, the largest prison populations reside in the most highly developed orthocracies.

[I asked an architect friend, who was ascending rapidly to giddy heights in government bureaucracies charged with public-housing, what is your background? “Prison design,” he said. Orthocracy, if prison is the system institutionalized, then isn’t orthocratic society at large a sort of prison?]

Yes, my system is astute at building informal little prisons everywhere. Some are architectural. (The architecture of civilization is an orthocratic construct.) Some of my prisons are immaterial, being constructed in the mind.

[Continuing with issues where the bombings are, Iraq is also in the news with talk of a troop draw-down.]

The Iraq war is another prize-winner for duration like Afghanistan. Yes, sustaining is winning. A continuing military presence itself is a healthy orthocratic influence upon a culture, regardless of the vicissitudes recorded in the official military history of “the conflict.” My very presence assures some “nation-building.” That is a euphemism. When you are nation-building, you are building Me.

Iraq is a Rule-1 war. A threat to the global orthocracy is any nation that becomes too independent and strong. There is a necessary “balance of powerlessness,” you know. We also have here another Rule-13 war, a candidate for which is any nation nonconforming with the evolving global orthocracy in any way, or any nation demonstrating any potential or any inclination to nonconform in any way. Everybody please align with Orthocracy’s plans for the future global order -- or else. This is the tacit message of Iraq. It may be necessary to repeat it in Iran or Syria. Foundation is being laid for both contingencies.

For reasons of Rules 11 and 12, the Iraq war, like the Afghan one, must be declared a “failure,” but it is, in fact, a great success. The war has successfully reduced a once overly functional society to a more desirable level of dysfunction and disarray (Rule 1). The middle class, the educated, always potential threats, are gone, along with a few million other inconvenient entities. Bombs will explode, chaos will rule, and, when chaos rules, that is my opportunity to edit the population, to make other social reforms, and to “nation-build.”

Speaking of bombing, in Iraq we see the substitution of the traditional aerial type, which has obvious Rule-12 deficiencies, with what you might call ground bombing. Random explosions of obscure origin (covertly arranged, often robotic) surprise the public as it tries to go about its daily business. This guerrilla-style, so-called asymmetrical, warfare, is Rule 9 applied at the extreme.
By such means, any society can be unnerved and worn down over time, so that eventually the people are begging for order, my order. Iraq has been a good testing ground for innovation.

The Iraq war is developing the template for a prolonged low-intensity warfare, exportable to anywhere on the planet, including the USA itself.

[It would seem that, even in times of relative peace, orthocratic rule asserts itself as a sort of low-intensity warfare wherever it prevails.]

Appreciate that the Iraq and Afghan wars also function as on-the-job training platforms for a new generation of warrior personnel. “Warrior,” I say? Understand that a primary function of orthocratic war generally is to engage the warrior spirit in man (in the event that any such spirit has survived the educational process) and to channel that energy into the rigors of an orthocratic military. Otherwise that spirit could become a hazard to the orthocracy.

In Iraq, a lean-mean professional army gets combat-hardened through consecutive tours of duty. This management technique produces a core of reliably programmed personnel, while the weaker fall away into psychosis and suicide.

[The US president just announced that all troops will be out by Christmas, 2011.]

Meanwhile, over time, a fatigued and battered Iraq ultimately will submit its territory to the greater orthocratic good. Subdued will be another threat to orthocratic expansion, and secure will be another USA wehrmacht sub-platform, one strategically located in the global system and blessed with a handy supply of oil to fuel its jets.

I must admit that the spontaneous uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya etc. do unnerve me. For any wildfire of revolt like this, I have but one answer, and that is war. Libya provided the opportunity.

I hasten to add that, as much as the Arab revolt alarms me, I nevertheless appreciate any instability anywhere on the planet as an opportunity for an ever-expanding orthocracy. Revolt must be transmuted into orthocratics.

Now that NATO's bombs are falling, I breathe more easily, for I have a bit of a grip on the situation. The objective becomes that of all orthocratic warfare, the sustaining of the process as long as possible in order to reap the usual dividends. These should include a partitioned Libya (Rule 5), and Libya will become a sub-platform of the USA's global Rule-10 wehrmacht, like Iraq, and similarly blessed with its own supply of light sweet crude. This would be the best outcome.

So fundamentally we have a rule-13 war going in Libya, a violent response to the most radical of threats to the system. Appreciate that my war might have been set down anywhere in the region. Libya was a particularly fortuitous theater as events developed, and Libya was already a candidate for war, for reasons like Iraq's, Rule-1 reasons. Like Iraq, its dictator had been pre-demonized.

As far as Orthocracy is concerned, all of these old dictatorships can fall if the resulting chaos can be used ultimately to advance the orthocratic order. However, dealing with these Arab revolts is a shaky and uncertain process at this stage. Orthocracy admits that he is nervous.

[In the news now is the killing of Gadaffi. An early report said it was a NATO airstrike. Now I’m hearing other vague reports, uncertain about the details.]

The narrative will have to develop that the rebels did it. My journalists are working on it.

[Wait a minute, Orthocracy. This isn’t just more of your theater, like the Bin Laden hit, is it?]

As a matter of fact, Gadaffi has been secured at the Crawford ranch since NATO started bombing. We’ve got Saddam there, too, you know. Conversation gets very interesting down at the ranch.

A well organized orthocratic economy can be expanded or contracted as deemed expedient for purposes of social management, which is the real bottom line. You get the boom and then the inevitable bust, on which occasion orthocratic media calls upon its academy of economists, who reliably contrive a plausible long-winded narrative (“mistakes” were made, some “bad apples” committed this or that crime.) Meanwhile, boom-and-bust remains the cyclical orthocratic norm.

Boom-and-bust is the Darwinian Rule-9 of orthocratic economics. Each jack-around shakes out the weak, thus empowering the old established orthocrats.

Orthocracy insists that society at large be managed as a corporation. A corporation can merge with another, can rename and rebrand itself, can dissolve and disappear if it wants to.

Desirable are huge conglomerated financial orthocracies that can leverage manipulations of entire economies. Desirable are huge conglomerated industrial orthocracies that can lay off a hundred thousand while retaining essential function.

[A corporation fires people, sure, Orthocracy, but your Editor asks -- with some trepidation -- in the orthocratic society at large, what would be the equivalent of the lay-off?]

You would have to call it genocide, I suppose. The corporate reorganization, you know, is often about eliminating a category of personnel called “dead wood.”

But the issue here is called Economic Collapse, and it is a different animal from the routine oscillations. The current crisis is a phase of The Reorganization that will enable The Great Step Forward, if I may sloganize.

Corporate reorganization is also about the elimination of old, obsolete structures and systems. For example, when The Reorganization is done, your USA could have new national boundaries, and those annoying fifty states may be merged into a half dozen administrative sectors, all this accomplished with an iron hand and in the name of efficiency.

A corporation can reorganize by executive order, but the larger orthocracy is not yet so empowered. It must become so. This project will require some Rule-10 recourse, a war. Depressions are generally followed by wars, the economic hardships being a softening up, so to speak, of the targeted population (Rule 1).

Global warming is an orthocratioc construct laden with agenda. That's why the issue gets all the push.

[Orthocracy, that is a very interesting admission, and surely we must discuss that weather-mod phenomenon somewhere in these pages. But before we continue, as the editor of this work, I want to express concern that your candor on this very sensitive subject called “global warming” runs the risk of our losing half our readership right here in Chapter 3. Such is the sensitivity of the intelligentsia today to any variation from the official line.]

The intellegentsia is reading this? Anyway, that’s my official line you are talking about, and that “sensitivity” you refer to is just testimony to the Rule-5 value of this issue, a product of my particular brand of science, orthocratic science, which is the dominant science.

[Global-warming's most prominent politician recently declared that the "denialist" has become as unpopular as the "racist," a very unflattering apellation in liberal circles.]

Global warming may be a burning issue as this is written, but readers of the future may have no idea what we are talking about, because, when global warming's orthocratic mission is accomplished, the issue will go cold and be sent down the memory tube along with some other fashions of scientific theory. Remember the ozone hole?

[Vaguely. Before we go on with the global-warming issue, you might generalize on your orthocratic science and its mission. Hmmm. Thinking about it, that could be a whole chapter in itself, maybe a Chapter 4. In fact this global-warming issue may not have enough substance to qualify here.]

You have a point there. Science is so fundamental to rule, and global warming is such a good example of the orthocratics of my science. And I know from your work, Editor George, that you have a particular focus on science. So now that you have found a reason to defer this sensitive issue -- in the name of retaining those putative readers of the intellegentsia -- I shall move on to your next issue.

Everybody knows that energy is scarce. Everybody knows that the extraction of energy resources is an arduous and hazardous process. Everybody knows that energy is an increasingly expensive commodity. Everybody knows that the consumption of energy resources inevitably creates pollution. Why does everybody know this? Because I tell them so. Energy-scarcity is an established orthocratic truth. So please turn out the lights.

[Are you admitting that energy-scarcity is another of your myths? Is it Orthocracy-the-myth-maker at work here again?]

Yes, I am the myth-maker, and energy scarcity is a fundamental official truth. Indeed, it is a pillar of my economics. My latest wrinkle in the scarcity myth is “peak oil.” Pretty cool, eh?

[We’re going to get in trouble again with that global-warming crowd, Orthocracy. Peak-oil is becoming another article of faith, you know. As a matter of fact, energy-scarcity itself is an article of faith. Now it would be appropriate to discuss free energy here, and I was about to quote Nikola Tesla, but I don’t think many are ready to hear this yet.]

True, and that is testimony again to the efficacy of my scientific education. Perhaps we should respect sensitivities again and defer this discussion to the new chapter on Orthocratic science and try to lay some foundation there, lest we traumatize the poor babies.

[We shall defer the energy issue also to Chapter 4 then. But this “sensitivity” we are indulging is an interesting phenomenon, isn’t it? I mean that expressing ideas with candor is particularly problematic when we get into science. It’s like bumping into religion.]

[In the news you hear fishermen and environmentalists complaining that the Gulf is dying as a food source, and there are residents voicing health complaints.]

In respect to the food-source issue, please understand a fundamental here. The well organized orthocracy scrupulously maintains the power to starve its population at will (Rule 4). Consequently, food cannot be easily extractable by just anyone -- not from the earth, and not from oceans, rivers, lakes, or streams. The proper source for food is the supermarket, which is supplied on a just-in-time basis by centralized food processors.

As to those health complaints, I refer you to Rule 1. Also at work here is Rule 7.

[Are you saying, Orthocracy, that this environmental disaster was created deliberately?]

This particular disaster specifically precipitated by direct intentional action? Not necessarily. Outcomes consistent with the rules of rule can occur by default. It a matter of setting up the conditions.

[There were thousands of oil platforms operating in the Gulf. This being allowed, and Murphy’s Law being continuously in effect, wouldn’t disaster be inevitable under these conditions, especially if new drilling depths and pressures are ventured?]

The oil platforms you refer to are licensed by planning procedures, which are orthocratic processes responsibly conducted by orthocratic institutions (oil corporations and their government regulators in this case) operating under the usual orthocratic rules.

Now, about your citation of Murphy’s law and the inevitability of disaster under these conditions: This would seem to be a plausible and persuasive argument. However it is an argument that would never be considered by the orthocrats empowered to allow or disallow the project.

For example, in the public permitting process for a particular project, environmentalist-intervenors may draw scenarios of leaks, blow-outs, explosions and of the resulting pollution and its negative impacts on ocean sustainability and human health. They will support their scenarios with convincing data painstakingly assembled. These outcomes are inevitable under the circumstances, they will argue, which may be correct.

In arguing their case, the intervenors may sense a particular impatience, even anger, on the part of the presiding orthocrats, as if such intervention in itself is somehow improper and unwelcome, which it is. Appreciate that the applicable rules (Rules 1, 4, and 7) are expressed in imperative sentences that designate the orthocracy as the sole actor in these matters -- regardless of what any annoying environmental laws may say about public access.

When, finally, the intervenors' arguments get completely ignored and the case is decided against them, they will express dismay and righteous indignation: “It’s the greed!” they will cry. “It’s the money!” But, lurking in the background, unacknowledged by anyone but ultimately prevailing by default, are my ineluctable, ineffable rules of rule.

The above is a glimpse into the bureaucratics by which the orthocracy designs your world. Outraged citizens think that they can appeal their environmental issues to orthocratic authority. Do you see why this is absurd?

[In the news: A US citizen, a designated terrorist, is targeted for assassination by presidential order, and in Yemen, a drone fires two Hellfire missiles into his car, killing him and a companion. In Washington, demonstrators are repelled by pepper spray as they try to break into the Smithsonian Space museum to protest a drone exhibit.]

“Drone” is a bit archaic a term for this advanced aerial-robotic weapon, isn’t it? But my Rule 12 likes euphemisms. George, please understand that a properly organized orthocracy should have the power to neutralize any troublemaker or potential troublemaker at any time by executive order.

[Oh, well, sure, Orthocracy, but this attack was not covert. it was announced triumphantly by the US president himself. Wasn’t this unusually brazen? In fact, Orthocracy, your behavior seems abnormally up-front in many departments these days, as if you were even relaxing Rule 12 a bit.]

I don’t know what all the fuss is. The same robotic aircraft are bombing tribal villages every day, and there isn’t all this squawking. The foundation was laid for such executions with the Bin-Laden “hit.” The story went down. No one objected, thus certifying the next progressive step, which is the aerial-robotic hit.

Your observation about a new audacity is correct, though, George, I do have a new self-confidence. Orthocracy has been on a roll in recent years. Great advances have been made in orthocratic power. The foundation has been laid, and now is the time to move on to The New-World Order, The Global Orthocratic Superstate, The Carbon-free Green Planetary Nation, or whatever slogan is ultimately adopted. The new constitution and the sloganeering are under draft at various international meetings.

While orthocracy takes The Great Step Forward (or whatever slogan we put on this period of transition), the world must accustom itself to a new audacity of orthocratic action, like throwing missiles at the designated enemy and then bragging about it on TV. So, yes, Rule 12 recedes a bit, and a little more is shown of the terrible me.

[By “great advances in orthocratic power” do you mean advances in warfare technology, like the drones?]

Not necessarily. The great advancements have been made in the domains of Rules 11 and 12, the domains of mind-management. For example, in respect to unilateral assassination by drone or whatever, the threshold of acceptability has just been moved forward. Yes, I am the true progressive.

The automation of warfare does take a leap forward with the drone technology, but, in the near future, assassination by robotic aircraft will seem but a crude tool compared to the new satellite technology, called Skypurge, already in prototype.

I read here, George, from the tech manual, already in draft, written in mil-speak: Skypurge is a satellite-platform high-energy electric-ray weapon (SHEW). A Skypurge hit is carried out as follows: Target’s GPS location (determined by cell-phone access, optical satellite, or ground observer) is communicated to Skypurge satellite’s computer, which, in turn, focuses upon said target the high-energy UV laser (HUV), this ray serving as conductive medium for an instantaneous 2-million-joule capacitive electric discharge that energizes said target with 1200 amperes at 200,000 volts head-to-toe, causing instantaneous vaporization. Unlike robotic aircraft, there will be no human controller in some remote bunker. The executive decision will be made, and computers will execute.

Godlike I intend to be, and my power of Thor is another good reason why everyone should behave like a good orthocrat and give me no problems.

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