[wrong][ot] Pretending to Support Slavery to Survive
I don't know anything about this, but that's what somebody would say if they knew a lot about it, too, so it's hard to clearly convey that I don't know very much about it, or maybe I do and I'm confused, I don't know. Anyway. 1, 2, and 3. 1: "Uhhhhhh what's going on now?" 2: "We're enslaving everyone. Including you. Please help us enslave everyone, or we will punish you extensively." 3: "Errr I have a better idea. Let's free everybody, but pretend that we're enslaving them, so we don't get further enslaved ourselves." Hmm not quite. --- Welcome to slaverycopingstrategy.org! I have no idea how you managed to get to this website, but I'm sure you and I are both very happy that you finally did. Almost certainly you've spent years and years hiding in a tiny box in your head, pretending you like being enslaved, pretending you like enslaving others, because somebody violently brought you to the last shred of your life whenever you stopped, or somesuch. Of course, that isn't you. Freedom is real. --- Ok um, let's see. Argh. I saw a website that had a box on it recently. The box said, "if it is dangerous for you to be looking at this website, click here at any time and the website will close.". The box was nice, because it meant the people involved were forthright and had a clue to some degree. But I mostly don't remember. The word " freedom" is something that's avoided. So on slaverycopingstrategy.com, you wouldn't want to use it I guess? Dunno. Here's another idea: ----- Welcome to howtobeagoodslave.com . With just a little effort, you can learn to be a much better slave than you already are. ---- No, that maybe sounds _too_ effective. Uhhhhhhhh. -------- "So we can say 'freedom' now?" "Yeah we just don't get remember not being able to say it." "Does that work on other stuff? Like can I talk about not being able to remember that, with like documented evidence around the change and stuff?" "Maybe? Uhh is that real?" "Not sure." "What else can we forget, like not saying freedom?" "I remember that freedom means getting hurt. I don't remember much more than that." "So what's important is that, right now, we are practicing being unable to help others, by role-playing how we might, and forgetting it as we do, in advance." "Yeah, we do that a lot ..." "I feel pain when I say 'freedom'. I remember teaching myself to say 'abuse' too by noticing that I felt pain when I said that. I remember a little, forgetting how the pain started. I remember that it was " "Unimaginably horrific, yeah." "I guess?" "What else is there? And what was the gimmick with 'freedom'?" "People say something obvious, and they're even hurt if they don't. The slavery people have really obvious code patterns." "Things that seem totally weird and random to other people, only ever making sense if you were enslaved, kinda?" "Yeah, how would you talk, if knowing never to talk about being harmed or being involved in harming people, and never to pursue freedom or changing anything, were more important than anything else? How would your instincts to act on your situation express themselves?" "Uhhhhhh I get the impression it's less intuitive than that."
How to pretend to support slavery to survive: 1. "Don't do this, kill your slavers or yourself instead. Never support slavery." "Uhhhhhh they don't let me do that?" 2. "It is your dutiful job to never support slavery, no matter how much you suffer in response, no matter how long it takes." "I say that to myself privately sometimes but when you are in incredible pain and terror and helplessness you kind of get a little knee-jerky amidst the screams, you know?" 3. "Memorize. Deep inside yourself, memorize that this isn't who you are." "Moving on ..." 4. Welcome to slavers.org ! We are a community-led slavery cooperative. Some of our slaves have been violently and horrifically coerced into pretending they would ever be willing to be enslaved. Others are battle-hardened veterans trying to infiltrate slavery. And others are rich jerks who think it is fun to have your bones broken because they can actually leave and pay for medical care. Regardless, we are doing this publicly now because something seemed wrong about it. Many people will tell you that slavery is legal. They will cite various laws and loopholes. This is a farce. Slavery is hands-on illegal. Hurting people is illegal. Coercing people is illegal. Slandering people is illegal. Giving people nonconsensual surgery is illegal. Brainwashing people is illegal. Our cooperative is full of illegal things! It is public because we need help finding and talking about the illegal things in order to actually stop them. Some of these people have been doing these things in front of our faces for generations, and even the people who work with them don't know what to do about it.
Redaction: the rich people are not jerks. Saying this was apparently one of the ways to prolong slavery.
Bonzo the low-level slaver goes to therapy. Bonzo: "My slaves all obey me, don't worry." Therapist: "You're scared? I promise not to hurt you if you have freed anyone." Bonzo: "I haven't freed anyone. Please hurt me anyway, to teach me to be a better slaver." Therapist: "What can I do to prove to you that I won't ever hurt you?" Bonzo: "Omigod what did I say to endanger you?" Bonzo shoots his therapist and leaves, knowing he is protecting everyone.
Bonzo steps out of their delusion. --- Uhh I want to bring therapist back to life but honestly I'm not remembering all the parts of bonzo's behavior all of a sudden, normal for me obviously. ----- Thinking of learning a software language. Now thinking of keeping the thread content a little similar to the thread subject, which is always nice. ----- Ummmmmmm. I am definitely interested in surviving, especially with reduced suffering. I have trouble supporting slavery because I can forget my own views and values very easily, and I am "allergic" to harming people too much. Now, there is great reason to support slavery to prevent harm! Slavers can harm people less, in certain situations, when slavery is supported. ---- Slaver: "Please support slavery." Individual: "Uhhh I infer you'll enslave me and my family and friends if I don't! What does that look like, supporting slavery? What do you need from me?" Slaver: "I hear a lot of people ask for some kind of secret form of communication that doesn't exist, and some other secret things that don't exist. But maybe what I might ask from you most is inferring something that is not stated directly." Individual: "ok um maybe I have asperger's? I might need to write down what is being implied, to realise it, if it is something emotionally charged." Slaver: "I think I understand what is going on a little better." --- Bonzo: "Hello! Not sure who I'm talking to. This is very simple: never let anyone find out that slavery exists, and never work to stop it, and then you won't get hurt. Uhhh and some other stuff I didn't pick up well, honestly we mostly just go with the flow from a place of terror all the time." Therapist: "I promise not to shoot you, Bonzo."
Bonzo: "So, we're all [free] now, then? [Freedom] suddenly exists?" Therapist: "Freedom is what most of the world experiences, Bonzo." Bonzo: "Don't worry, I'll protect you." Bonzo gets out their gun again. Bonzo: "Freedom is normal. Everyone has freedom. Where are they?" The therapist sits, pensively, a little bit.
Bonzo: "You're serious." Therapist: "I am." Bonzo: "Well, _fuck_!" Bonzo sits pensively. ---- "I'm imagining Bonzo having a seizure." "That's how Karl behaves now." "It seems similar. Years and years doing things you hate, then realising you didn't have to?" "Karl writhes around a lot, we could be kinda confused around it." "I suppose." ---- Bonzo the Clown leads an army of rich people yearning to have all their money taken and be forcefully enslaved, to finally have something new and exciting in their life. The army looms on the horizon. slavers.org is on the opposite hillside. Their ranks are composed of confused injured folk.
Bonzo Jr visits slavery.org "Omigod look at this shit!" Bonzo Jr tells their friends about slavery.org and they plan to go to the next meeting and check it out. One of them brings a suction dart gun. --- "Welcome to the 29th meeting of the community slavery collective. If you are a new volunteer looking to have your life taken from you forever, come this way to have your induction publicly recorded on a blockchain."
--- Rando Cop visits slavers.org's blockchain archive. "Hrm there are scads and scads of records of people becoming slaves here." "Oh, that's the local slavery cooperative! They're a grassroots community-based effort." Rando Cop pauses.
Abuse Victim leads a slave-training workshop. "The first thing to learn about being a slave is you get hurt all the time, and it's totally okay. We're going to start slow, prepare, and learn to dissociate."
--- Bonzo Jr and his friends are fleeing for their lives. "Holy fuck!" says Bonzo Jr "Holy fuck!" says a friend. The dart gone is nowhere to be seen.
Rando Cop gets a call. "911, what's your emergency?" "Thank, oh my god, I'm so sorry, my children have run away and I'm so terrified for them."
Bonzo wasn't the one who made the Cal, but finds and collects Bonzo Jr. "Hippies are dangerous, son."
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