Controlled Opposition

Philosophy itself … is a controlled opposition. What did Stalin say: the best way to control the opposition is to become the opposition.

So we’re Stalinists …What?

We’re part of the system … We play a role …

Fuck off …

They need us. They need us in the pub, drunk. They need us pissed and conspiracy-theorising. They need our … dubious theories of social control. They need our total paranoia. They need us teaching our shit to brain-numbed students.

They need our damaged brains. Our sodden intellects. We’ve been placed here for a reason. A nefarious reason. A wicked reason … We’re pieces in the great chess game, right? A game being played over our heads. They know what they’re doing …

 

They’re playing us at a deep level. We’re working for them, in some deep sense. At some fundamental level …

We’ve been deeply, deeply programmed. More deeply than we know.

 

We gasp for meaning. Like fish gasping at the surface in stagnant water. We’ll take anything. Any conspiracy theory. Any wildness offered us.

We need an Explanation. We need a Cause. We need a Theory.

Which is what they want – exactly what they want. We’re supposed to be half mad. We’re supposed to be crazy.

Maybe our paranoia has its uses. Our pathologies allow us to grasp things. See things. That we shouldn’t.

Yeah – false things. Look, we’re typical products of the end of an economic cycle. That’s our type. That’s who we were and how we were formed. The only chance we have, the only possibility, is to get transcendental. Explore how our kind were produced. We didn’t just come from nowhere.

We have to see ourselves from afar. Have to reverse engineer the process through we were formed. We didn’t just come from nowhere … We need to work out what not only what kind of beasts we are, but what they wanted by making us this way – by programming us like this.

Don’t you see? We have to be suspicious of everything – everything. Of our every thought …