C.A.R.P. Ch. 06 - Sex Stories

C.A.R.P. Ch. 06

... one another - Alan Watts and Tony Robbins, for example - were lumped into the same group, telling people they could accel at anything they set their minds to. It was total nonsense, of course, because these people were selling the masses adifferent opiate, but a narcotic just the same - that of false hope.

At the core of C.A.R.P. lay one single concept that was often the hardest for students to grasp - you, as an individual, arenot capable of everything, butwe, as a group,are. The biggest problem for students grasping this sprung from two things. The first was that we were not, nor had we ever been, anti-individualists. In fact, if anything, we wereultra-individualists, pointing out that allowing a group to define structure often came with its own set of problems. The second was that we, as a group, were alsotrying to define structure. But we refused to have any group 'leader' and we didn't let anyone make decisionsfor anyone else.

The end goal, I suppose, was to form a meritocracy, where everyone stood and fell on the strengths of their ideas, but one of the things I pointed outvery early on threw a major spanner into those works. "Anyone can have an idea," I told my fellow students. "Ideas are easy. They're free, they're constant and you will have millions, if not billions, of them over the course of your lifetime. Everything important about your idea lays in its execution, and if you cannot execute on your ideas, they're worth less."

The mental flu shot we'd ...

... agreed to develop was going to expose people abusing positions of trust, flaunting their lack of knowledge as a positive rather than a negative as a way of separating themselves from those they were trying to 'other.' It's one the most common underpinnings of any cult - you always need an 'other,' a villain. They don't look like us. They don't sound like us. They don't talk like us. They believe in a different invisible person than we do. They're doing things we don't like because they don't benefitus.

Breaking it down, it should be obvious how easy it was to build poison pill systems, things designed to find and exploit weak points in existing systems, simply by notassuming anything. We studied the resurgence of the Flat Earth concept, how it was generally framed into a conflict of science and religion, with a religious person insisting that science was trying to supplant religion. From their we pivoted into studying the rise of both Mormonism and Scientology, each an excellent example of how the human mind could be tricked into rejecting facts, and the base concepts were actually not all that complicated or hard to replicate.

It's like Chico Marx says in "Duck Soup," just on a larger scale: "Who're you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?"

Have enough confidence in what you're saying, and you can get, say, 10-20% of people to doubt their own eyes. That's the go-to trick of confidence men and women all over the world, the way in which they hustle people into thinking ...