The question that plagues all leaders: how do you maintain control?
There are those leaders whose solution is compromise. Except that it really cannot be called a compromise – it’s complete submission. Submission in the most reversed sense. These leaders bow and grovel to the whim of millions of masters. They are strung-up on chicken wire and forced to dance like marionettes around their offices, defecating people-pleasing pleasantries. They allow their agenda to be ransacked by an uneducated mob that has as much knowledge of nursing a country as a toddler does a baby doll. These are the leaders who topple societies with their brittle backbones that shatter at the slightest amount of pressure, are bedridden by criticism, and want nothing more than to pleasure the masses like a talented whore.
Then there are those leaders whose solution is to fight. They send battalions of armored soldiers to eliminate the problem and strike fear into the fence-sitters. Fight fire with nuclear weapons. In the end, it only makes a larger blast radius. And the ravenous infected – with their shriveled appendages and radioactive entrails – rise to the cause, only to fall like fleshy dominoes. These leaders initiate a perpetual cycle of violence that leaves nothing but a wasteland of the churned flesh of self-righteous martyrs rotting across the countryside. Cities reduced to rubble, infrastructures jutting out of the carnage like obelisks, waiting patiently for the Second-Coming. There would be nothing to rule – nothing worth ruling – and there would have to be a compromise with the disgruntled survivors to rebuild their world once again. This then ultimately feeds back into the first type of leader which, has already been determined, to be a weak leader.
The mental exercise is at its inevitable impasse; the same impasse that plagued many past world leaders. If you can’t befriend them, or obliterate them into submission, what, is it, that a leader can do? How can they rule with a steel grip, without strangling the life out of the society, crushing the windpipe of their people? How can they be seen as amicable without compromise? You use persuasion. You direct the people with the things that matter most, dangling it in front of them like a master does a treat to an unruly pet. Their own self-preservation, loved ones, fears, ambitions, desires – a combination of all of them. One does not rule with control of the minds, but control of the hearts and the guts of the individuals. One of the most successful tactics is forceful persuasion that invokes the fears of the citizens. It is this approach that we intend to inform the reworking our policies regarding the continuation of control over our society.
Fear starts with the carving of the cancer cell and isolating it from the rest of the organism. While the cancer is treated with severe punishment for their actions, the onlookers are subject to no harm themselves, in reward for their loyalty. In so doing, the leader and the rest of the governing body are seen as kind by many for not punishing the whole for the acts of the few. The reward for their loyalty makes them even more loyal, but equally as terrified of upsetting their gracious leader. This fear drives them to willingly seek out the few severed tentacles still writhing and wriggling about amongst them, latching onto the innocent with venomous fangs of ill-intent, and aide in the removal of the cancer before it spreads and infects another section of the organism. Those who do not aide in the upkeep of the organism if they have the chance, unlike their zealous fellow citizens, will be punished in the same likeness as the cancerous citizens. It is only fair that those who perpetuate the spreading of cancer are, likewise, treated as cancer and thus in need of elimination.
In the same discipline as Greats like Hammurabi, Hitler, and Hussein, we strive to build our policy against those that compromise the integrity of our establishment. This policy – based on fair and equal punishment for lawless criminals, economically feasible imprisonment options, and a comfortable amount of terrific discomfort – ensures that we will keep our citizens within our control. This level of compliance from our citizens will enable us to live happily without strife and other needless distractions that jeopardize the equilibrium of our society.