Cultural Enslavement

Cultural enslavement is the isolation of one subset of a population within a larger population for purposes of control. This control system is effective against any special interest which can be isolated from the surrounding population by a strong internal identity. You will see cultural enslavement primarily within cults and immigrant populations although these are not the only samples available. Any time that a charismatic leader can gain domination over his subject special interest by isolating it from the larger state that it is a part of, cultural enslavement exists.

A special interest with a cultural identity is as defined by its beliefs as it can be identified by its common geographical origin. It is difficult to know for sure if cultural enslavement shows up first, historically, with cults or immigrant colonies within a native population but the point may be lost in historical reality. Historically, there never has been a parting of geographical identity from the common beliefs of a culture. In fact, common beliefs are more the heart of a culture than the geographical location that it originated in.

The concept of a temporal identity that stands apart from the common religious heritage of a culture is a modern myth perpetuated to weaken a culture that cannot be taken by force. Family, faith and heritage are the three major pillars of all societies, the lack of which means imminent collapse of a culture. However, this is a subject for another essay and will not be further discussed in this article. It is enough to understand that the common identity of a culture exists around a culturally enslaved population as much as it holds dominion over a culturally enslaved population.

To institute cultural enslavement, it is essential to isolate a population by identity. Physical isolation is not essential but will not conflict with cultural enslavement of a special interest group. What actually matters is that the special interest feel that it is outside of the larger culture surrounding it. Unless this feeling of alienation can be maintained, the special interest may strive for integration with the larger culture and thereby break the chains of control. Breaking this drive to belong to the smaller group within a population is the same as dissolving the cultural enslavement by which it is contained and controlled.

Where a true special interest does not exist, it is possible to create one. There is always a portion of a larger culture that feels disenfranchised by the larger culture. The same drive that Man was given to make him break away from his mother and father, cleaving to his wife to form a family unit of his own, can be extended to cause him to break away from the world around him. As we all go through this phase, and we lack resistance to abuse of this drive, it is always possible to find candidates with which to create your special interest. A special Interest only requires that there be a central identity to your group that is more significant to the members of that group than personal identity.

People will be strongly drawn to a special interest if that special interest gives them the feeling of power. Ego has always been Man's greatest spiritual weakness. You will get far if you can frame the debate between your enslaved special interest and the larger culture in terms of a power struggle. It is not as much about reality as the appearance of reality. Where truth can be clouded, truth can be avoided.

Attraction is always stronger than repulsion. Resentment of anything will not be strong enough to hold your special interest together. It will work for a time, however, the energy required to maintain hostility will be enormous. Repulsion fades quickly when there is not enough energy to feed it. Outsiders will often mis-perceive this and that is an advantage to you because they will approach members of your special interest in the wrong way.

Attempts to placate resentment of the larger culture within a special interest that is actually unified by love of its own uniqueness will have the opposite effect. Honest attempts to diffuse the conflict between the two cultures will appear to be an attack on the culture of the special interest. This will enhance the feeling of alienation amongst the members of your controlled special interest who already feel that they are not understood in the larger culture. The additional resistance to interaction with the larger culture will give your enslaved special interest greater dependence upon you for your willingness to perform these undesirable tasks.

Start simply by identifying with your special interest. Remember that an alienated population will feel isolated and alone. Such people will experience a strong drive to belong to anything that you can offer them, as long as you can answer their hearts. Build up trust in your special interest while maintaining the feeling of alienation. Set yourself up as a counterpoint to everything that your special interest feels alienated from.

True isolation may prove useful in building up your isolated cultural identity, although depending too much on this physical isolation will mean that the special interest is at risk of breaking away from your control once it returns to society at large. Remember that this is about cultural isolation. What you want is an internal identity that isolates your special interest when it is surrounded by the larger culture. You want the cultural identity of your special interest to feel unique and special to the members of your special interest. This is all about control of minds.

Secrets can be useful in building up trust. Show that your special interest can be trusted by sharing secrets that the greater culture cannot be trusted with. You must have a central identity that makes your special interest distinct from the larger culture. There must be things about your special interest that only the insiders can empathize with. That will give the members of your special interest an attraction to the inner group that pulls them away from the larger culture and will give them the will to protect the whole special interest from the larger culture.

Language is important. If the larger culture speaks Martian and your special interest only speaks Aramaic, then there is a natural distinction between the two groups. People who can act as intermediaries between the two cultures have a natural control over the culturally enslaved special interest. Cultural enslavement is easiest to institute when there is such a natural isolation that leads to dependence. A strong love of the special interest's identity can be used to keep the majority of the special interest from integrating with the larger population and throwing off the dependence that allows cultural enslavement to continue.

There does not have to be a true language barrier involved to control the special interest. Words can be used in many ways. Using terms in a way that is unique to the special interest breeds a feeling that the special interest is beyond the larger culture. The special interest is in on a secret that the larger culture is not aware of. Unless you can make your special interest feel that its members are better in their unique identity as part of the special interest, the members of your special interest will lose their unifying faith. It will never be enough to make your special interest hate the larger culture.

Remember that you are maintaining the isolation of the special interest from the larger culture in order to control the special interest. You just cannot tell the special interest that. It is helpful to create an us against them mentality within your special interest. Frame the conflict as a defense of the unique identity of the special interest so that the fight is powered by the attractive force of love. Special interests will fight harder to survive than they will to conquer.

It is also true that the special interest will cease to exist as it is if it assimilates into the larger culture. There is good and bad in this truth as there is in everything. If you do a good job in making your special interest feel that the special interest is something better than the surrounding culture, then your special interest will fight to remain distinct from the larger culture. This will cause the special interest to maintain its dependence on you. A special interest that defends its enslavement as part of its will to survive will be easier to maintain intact over a longer period of time.

Culture is only the isolating force in cultural enslavement. The special interest must also be made dependent upon its controlling interest. This is easiest if the cultural identity of its special interest is based upon a reliance on a central group for essential functions of that society. Any culture where the members are used to being taken care of, for instance, will easily submit to any controlling interest that can simulate this function in the larger culture. Your controlling interest must provide whatever services are required by the special interest in order to survive living within the larger culture that the special interest is distinct from.
Although it is easy to talk about the glory of freedom, freedom carries responsibility with it. Slavery is easier to live with. Man's nature can be used to maintain the dependence of your special interest. The vast majority of all people will quickly trade in control of their lives for security. You might be surprised how much of any population would be comfortable in the carefree state of eternal childhood.

An isolated culture within a larger culture adds to this because the smaller culture is either unable or unwilling to interact with the larger culture. The wage of doing this dirty work is domination over the lives of your special interest. Interaction between the two cultures must take place for the smaller culture to survive. Your reward for handling this unpleasantness is that the smaller culture of your special interest becomes unable to survive without you. Anything that you require of your special interest must be provided to you.

In conclusion, let me state that cultural enslavement is a reality that must be understood in order to combat it. The greatest number of men will submit to brutal domination rather than pay the unpleasant price of responsibility for their own lives. Man was given the right to select his own master and must pay the price for his choice. Either Man must pay for his freedom with responsibility of he must pay for his irresponsibility with his freedom. There is no third choice.