[governance] THE Big Lie Society Shuffles the Deck

[Jim Fleming]

THE Big Lie Society Shuffles the Deck

THE Big Lie Society is composed of 52 people who conspire to control network
resources and content for their personal gain. If one of the people dies,
there is always another person that has been groomed to take their position
in THE Big Lie Society. Their names, faces and history can easily be
documented on a deck of playing cards. They will do almost anything or pay
people to do anything to be part of that deck of cards.

In the last installment, a scenario was illustrated where a cruise ship with
4800 people
breaks up in a storm into 8 sections and 8 communities form around an island
with
large barriers separating each of the communities. THE Big Lie Society, via
their
political and technical skills work to contact all of the other communities
and conspire
to keep the other 800 people in the dark on what is really going on around
the entire
island.

The 52 people are dispersed around the 8 communities and move back and
forth between the communities under the cloak of darkness and a never ending
string
of lies. On average, there are always 6 or 7 people on guard in each of the
8 communities
ready to suppress any attempts by others to communicate and also ready to
conspire
with the other members of THE Big Lie Society about ways to keep the people
in the
dark while continuing to strengthen their grip on all information that flows
in each
community and around the island. [One of the big lies is of course that
information does
not flow around the island because there are no other people on the other
side of the
island and each community of 800 people is lead to believe they are the only
survivors.]

Because of a lack of education, and because of an apathetic willingness to
accept life in
their new found paradise, the vast majority of people pay little attention
to THE Big Lie
Society and are happy to communicate only with the 800 people in their wedge
of the
island. In one of the 8 communities, the people gravitate to connecting
their LANs and
playing video games via system-link connections. Their view of the .NET is a
game. In
another one of the 8 communities, the people gravitate to simple text
message services
and have no interest in video games. Their view of the .NET is a hand-held
text message
device. In one of the other 8 communities the people develop music skills
and exchange
digital music. In another one of the 8 communities people quietly focus on
digital images
and exchange photos.

In all of the 8 communities, the base systems are mostly the same. Ones and
zeroes are
used in binary patterns to store and transmit messages. Operating systems,
kernels and
device drivers are fundamental building blocks. Because the people are
operating at high
levels of satisfaction with their applications (games, text messages, music
and photos) they
do not develop the skills to understand how the systems really work. THE Big
Lie Society
of course works very hard to not only discourage those skills but also to
discourage any
changes in the base systems. In each of the 8 communities, THE Big Lie
Society makes
sure that it has 2 of their 6 guarding the protocols, 2 of their 6 guarding
the addressing,
and 2 of their 6 guarding the naming and 1 person floating and helping to
distract and
confuse the population.

Because of their lack of interest and knowledge in the base technology, the
800 people
become the prey of THE Big Lie Society. Because the base technology rarely
changes
and because of the almost total control of THE Big Lie Society, there is
very little for the
52 people to do. They of course continue to circulate in each of the 8
communities and
around the island and stand guard watching for any threats that may come
from the
dumbed-down population of 800 people. The 52 people also of course
constantly recruit
for new potential members in case one of their insiders dies or disappears
from the island.

One of the major tools used by THE Big Lie Society is their ability to
shuffle people without
changing the fundamental lies they promote. That keeps the 800 people locked
into the
lies and allows the 52 members to move freely around the island.
Institutions are formed
to house and perpetuate the big lies. The 52 people just claim to be the
caretakers of those
institutions. They claim they are stewards. The institutions are totally
artificial. They were not
there when the people were washed ashore on the island. The institutions
become bastions
of bureaucracy. As the institutions grow and tax the people, the people have
less and less
ability to influence the bureaucracies, and the level of corruption
tolerated to protect the
institutions rises.

As various disruptions occur, THE Big Lie Society of course has to adapt and
tell new
lies and hope that the people forget the old lies. As one example, when
ships appear on the
horizon and send the occasional message, THE Big Lie Society has to explain
it away
as a fluke, a kook or glitch and direct the people's attention to their
island paradise. A
social event can draw people away from the shoreline and the messages from
the ship.
If the messages from the ships increase, then THE Big Lie Society of course
has to step in
and insert themselves in the communication channel and present the ship with
one view and
the people with another view.

As another example, if the people start to hear that there are other people
on the island,
THE Big Lie Society has to remain one step ahead and control any
communication around
the island. The people may completely forget as time goes on that at one
point THE Big
Lie Society claimed there were no other people. At another point, THE Big
Lie Society
claimed there were people but security and stability made it risky to
communicate with
those people. The people are always pulled back to the party-line that THE
Big Lie Society
looks out for their interests and that without THE Big Lie Society
communication and
the artificial institutions would cease to function. The people are of
course distracted from
the fact that the artificial institutions exist primarily to fund and
support THE Big Lie Society
who conspire to divide, distract and deceive the people who lack the
resources to put the
entire puzzle together and develop a birds-eye view of the entire island.

THE Big Lie Society is composed of 52 people who conspire to control network
resources and content for their personal gain. If one of the people dies,
there is always another person that has been groomed to take their position
in THE Big Lie Society. Their names, faces and history can easily be
documented on a deck of playing cards. They will do almost anything or pay
people to do anything to be part of that deck of cards.

It Seeks Overall Control


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