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The average man can easily be convinced that if he will only follow the rules,

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whoever made those rules and whatever those rules might be,

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then he is relieved of any duty of having to use his own judgment to decide what to do.

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An accomplished slave-smith can easily convince commoners that their cowardice and weak-mindedness are reasons for pride, not shame.

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The compliance should be taught to view themselves, not as the mindless, cowardly sheep that they are, but as loyal and brave,

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cooperative comrades.

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The man who does not have the wits to think for himself and does not have the strength to actually be courageous and principled

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will welcome any reason to ridicule and hate the man who does have such wits and such strength.

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So, to them, blind faith and blind obedience become virtues, the highest virtues.

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Thinking becomes a vice, and no matter how bad things get, the obedient will never want to consider the possibility that their own

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compliance is the cause of their troubles.

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They would much rather blame the disobedient.

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A weak-dominated mind will eagerly blame anyone but himself for the situation that his own cowardice helped to create.

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Consider the slave who always does as he is told, who always works hard for his master, and as a result, never has to feel the whip.

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Now, when that slave sees another slave being whipped for disobedience,

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how will the obedient slave view that?

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He has but two options.

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If he views the other slave as the victim of unjust abuse,

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then he must view himself as a coward who lacked the courage to resist injustice.

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But if, instead, he can convince himself that he is virtuous for pleasing and obeying his master,

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then he can condemn that other slave for not possessing such virtue, and

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thus he can feel contempt for the disloyal disobedient slave, who obviously deserves whatever punishment he may receive for his insolence.

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Thus it is in the best interest of every coward,

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every weakling, every lily-livered fool to embrace and endorse his own

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enslavement, and to condemn any who does not.

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It was written three years ago while we were shooting the movie, Joan's Plantation.