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Michael A. Aquino, Ph.D.

Lt. Colonel, Psychological Operations (Ret.)

United States Army

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© 2017 by Michael A. Aquino

Barony of Rachane

Post Office Box #470307

San Francisco, CA 94147

U.S.A.

http://www.rachane.org

ISBN-13:

978-1544178424

ISBN-10:

1544178425

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Dedicated To

Janet F. Aquino

Scarborough Fair

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About halfway between West Egg and New York, the motor

road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a

mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.

This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like

wheat into ridges, hills, and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the

form of houses and chimneys and rising smoke; and finally, with a

transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already-

crumbling through the powdery air.

Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track,

gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest; and immediately the

ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an

impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from

sight.

Above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift

endlessly over it repose the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg: blue and

gigantic - their retinas a yard high. They stare out from no face, but

instead from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over

an invisible nose. Evidently some obscure oculist set them there

before sinking himself into eternal blindness, or merely forgetting

them and moving away. But his eyes, dimmed a little by many days

under the sun and rain, brood on enigmatically over the spectral

landscape.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby, 1925

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Table of Contents

Dedication: Jan

5

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg

7

Table of Contents

9

Preface

17

Chapters

1: FINDing the FAR Future

21

A. Status Quo: Chaos

21

1. “Frozen in the Headlights”

21

2. Three Headlights

22

a. Pressure

22

b. Ulterior Motives

23

c. No Way Out

23

3. Thousand-Pound Canaries

23

a. Africa

24

b. Aging

24

c. Agriculture

24

d. AIDS

24

e. Atomic Energy

25

f. Children

25

g. Decolonization

25

h. Demining

25

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i. Democracy

26

j. Development

26

k. Disarmament

26

l. Environment

26

m. Family

26

n. Food

27

o. Governance

27

p. Health

27

q. Human Rights

27

r. Human Settlement

27

s. Humanitarian Assistance

28

t. International Law

28

u. Oceans

28

v. Peace & Security

28

w. Persons with Disabilities

28

x. Population

29

y. Refugees

29

z. Terrorism

29

aa. Volunteerism

30

ab. Water

30

ac. Women

30

4. Starfish

30

5. Activation

31

6. Law

31

a. Definition

31

b. Classification

32

(1) Eternal Law

32

(2) Natural Law

34

(3) Divine Law

34

(4) Human Law

35

c. MW Supertheism

36

d. Machiavelli’s Admonition

36

7. Sciences

37

a. Physical: Natural Law

37

b. However ...

37

c. Social: No Law .˙. No Science

38

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d. However ...

39

B. Status Post: FindFar

40

C. FF Inspiration: Machiavelli

41

1. Fortuna: Four-Dimensional Reality

41

2. Virtu: Controlling the Dimensions

42

3. Necessita: Moderating Change

43

4. Occasione: Timing is Everything

44

5. Ordini: To What End?

45

D. FF Analysis: Reflection

45

1. Logic

46

a. Deduction

46

b. Induction

47

c. Abduction

47

2. Logical Fallacies

47

a. Quoting Out-of-Context

48

b. Sentimental Argument

49

c. Authoritarian Argument

49

d. Ambiguity

50

e. Interdependence

51

f. Significance

51

g. Argumentum ad Ignorantium

52

h. Composition and Division

53

i. Ignoratio Elenchi

53

j. Non Sequitur

54

k. Argumentum ad Hominem

54

3. The Lesson of Logic

56

E. FF Continuum

57

2: Time

59

A. The Fourth Dimension

59

B. Definition

60

1. Ding Nicht an Sich

60

2. Kant

60

3. Einstein

61

4. Noumenon

61

5. Objective Universal Dynamic

62

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C. History or “Reality Control”

63

D. Patterns

67

1. OU-Reality Construction

67

2. In/Sanity

67

a. Exposé

67

b. The Ministry of Love

68

c. “00Ψ”: License to Instill

69

E. Memory

70

1. Attention

71

2. Retention

72

3. Identity

74

F. Anticipation

75

1. Forecasting

75

2. Foreshaping

76

G. Models

76

1. Circular

76

2. Cyclical

77

3. Linear

78

4. Relational

79

H. Time=God(s)

80

I. xD: Perspective

81

J. 5D: Creation

82

K. FF Implications

83

3: 3D Forecasting

85

A. Stasis Representation

85

1. Neglected Dentistry

86

2. Doublethink

87

3. Thoughtcrime

88

4. Tenacity

89

5. Reflection Elusiveness

91

B. 4D Fear

92

1. Political Nonscience

92

2. However ...

94

3. Tools

97

a. Trend Extrapolation

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b. Flow-Tree

98

c. Cross-Matrix

98

d. Scenarios

99

e. Models/Games/Simulations

100

f. Experts

100

g. Cycles

101

C. Resources

102

1. World Future Society

102

2. Stratfor

103

3. Hudson Institute

105

4. United States Government

105

a. Department of State

106

b. Central Intelligence Agency

106

4: Phases, Layers, & Dimensions

109

A. MindWar Interlocks

109

B. MW Resources

110

1. The MindWar TriForce

110

2. The PhysWar Branches

110

C. MW Declaration

112

1. PW-Era Status Quo

112

a. PW Declarations

112

b. PW NonDeclarations

113

c. False-Flag

114

2. MW-Era Status Post

114

a. “Enemy” Definition

114

b. Transparency

115

c. Phase 1 Diagnostics

115

d. Foundation Diagnosis

115

D. Dual-Direction

117

1. Obverse: Áristos

117

2. Reverse: Kalokagathia

117

3. ParaPolitics Branch

118

4. Agathon

118

E. PW-Era Status Quo

121

F. MW-Era Status Post

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1. Theistic States

122

2. Atheistic States

123

3. External Harmonization

123

G. Agathon: Key to Kalokagathia

123

H. Pyramid of the Agathon

124

1. PW-Era Status Quo

124

2. MW-Era Status Post

125

3. The Pyramid

125

a. Thought Architecture

127

b. Below the Base

127

c. Conscious Ascent

128

d. Subconscious Ascent

128

e. Convergence

129

f. Transcent

129

g. Apprehension

131

I. Kalokagathia ParaPolitics

131

1. PW-Era Status Quo

132

2. MW-Era Status Post

133

3. ParaPolitics Components

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a. 2D>3D>>4D

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b. Agathon Pyramid: The Core

136

c. Types of Politics

137

d. Internal Stresses & External Pressures 138

e. 4D Dynamic

139

5: Complications

141

A. Snakes!

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B. PW Profitability

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1. Extent

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2. Redirection

143

C. Politics of Stability

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1. “War is Peace”

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2. Rehab

148

D. Revolution

151

1. A Party in Progress

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2. Crashing the Party

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a. Status Quo Ante

152

b. Retubing Toothpaste?

153

c. Conflicted Drives

153

d. Dæmonic Possession

154

e. Occasione

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E. Identity and Legitimacy

161

1. “Denn die Todten Reiten Schnell”

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2. Dilemma

162

F. Metropolis

166

1. Technostate

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2. Ultima Futura

168

G. “Learn to Smile”

169

Afterword: The Prince and the Magician

171

Bibliography

175

Index

187

Accessories

195

About the Author

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Preface

In recent years nuclear physicists have discovered a strange

world of subatomic particles, fragments of atoms smaller

than the imagination can picture, fragments of materials

which do not obey the laws of gravity. Antimatter composed

of inside-out material, shadow-matter that can penetrate ten

miles of lead shielding. Hidden deep in the heart of strange

new elements are secrets beyond human understanding -

new powers, new dimensions, worlds within worlds,

unknown ...

- The Control Voice

“The Production and Decay of Strange Particles”

The Outer Limits, April 20, 1964

In 2013 the strange particle MindWar was published.

Instead of decaying, however, it has emitted two even

stranger particles: MindStar (2016) and now FindFar

(2017). Altogether these three particles meld to generate

an über strange trimolecule, exposure to which

resynapsizes the human brain to regard the existential

phenomenon of sentient humanity in radically-new

manifestations.

MindWar is a practical manual for the retirement of

traditional, physical warfare (PhysWar/PW) in favor of

cooperative, pacific invention against an artificially-

controlled environmental atmosphere subconsciously

aligning the cognitive processes of the human brain away

from natural chaos to supernatural serenity.

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MindStar addresses the one component of human

mentality that the externalized MindWar intentionally

postpones: the metaphysical “soul”, or more precisely

eightfold emanations collectively comprising the

MindStar of eternal, immortal, isolate self-consciousness.

O.K., so that was the easy part.

Aficionados of MW will [p]recall that a successful MW

campaign requires first the designing, then the gradual

implementation of an improved entity profile: either the

“best practical” áristos or, in ideal opportunities, the

perfected polis of kalokagathia. This analysis involves

forecasting, but once again not what conventionally

passes for forecasting: static “snapshots” of estimated

future points in linear time.

Instead MW utilizes a Fourth-Dimensional, dynamic

calculus called FindFar (FF), which is the subject of this

third book in the series.

FF is not a static picture but one in motion: a

projection which is in constant harmonization with the

MW campaign during its activation. Indeed there is a

“double-dynamic” in process, since the targeted future

and the current standpoint-of-perspective are both

changing relative to each other, and both against any

external “backdrops”: a continuum of true, not

Einsteinian-absurd relativity.

The task of FindFar is not just to describe this

machinery, but to do so without bewildering the reader.

Any tool, no matter how elegant, is useless unless one

knows how to use it reasonably effortlessly. Hence FF is

written not so much as a turgid textbook as a

conversation, interacting with the reader and frequently

going back over obscure or complex points. The result, I

hope, will be a reading experience as stimulating as it is

informative.

In places I daresay it is also sobering. MW is not a

pleasant puzzle for ivory-tower entertainment; it is an

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instrument of power and force to overcome the

formidable inertia of an existing global crisis of

intolerable destruction, misery, pain, and death. MW’s

application requires not just understanding and wisdom,

but the clearsighted coldness and divine detachment of

Dr. T.J. Eckleburg. There will be ample flexibility for

pleasure once the bloodflow of PW has been arrested.

If you eventually find yourself in an opportune

position to activate MW in whole or part, FF should be a

practical resource. Short of such an opportunity, it may

also be of value as a stand-alone tool, replacing the

clumsiness and obsolescence of conventional forecasting

with a sleeker, swifter alternative. So take it out on a test-

drive and let me know how well it works for you.

Learn to smile.

San Francisco

February 2, 2017 CE

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Chapter 1: FINDing the FAR Future

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to

the past or present are certain to miss the future.

- John F. Kennedy

The future belongs to those who believe in the

beauty of their dreams.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

A. Status Quo: Chaos

1. “Frozen in the Headlights”

Right out of the starting gate, conventional

approaches to political problem-solving are doomed to

confusion, frustration, and failure for a very simple

reason: There is no framework for solution and

phased implementation.

Rather the subject problem is treated as an

amorphous, discrete incident or state-of-affairs;

accordingly any proposed “solutions” are designed and

considered for immediate appeasement and gratification

of [preferred] interested parties.

The symptoms - not the causes - are treated, and

“the can is kicked down the road” - only to reappear

thereupon at a later date, most probably in an even more

problematic state.

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2. Three Headlights

There are three primary reasons for this, as well as

numerous subsets of the three. They are:

a. Pressure

In a world of political nation/states, national

governments are expected to be the initiators and agents

of problem solution. With few exceptions these

governments are short-tenured, dependent upon formal

elections or factional/popular support to remain in

authority. They are accordingly under constant pressure

for immediate, not long-term solutions to perceived

national or international problems.

The usual response is to look for a showpiece of

immediate gratification rather than the frustration of an

extended policy that may actually be more practical.

A conspicuous contemporary example is the concern

about “global warming”. While there is scientific

uncertainty about how much, if any of this is the fault of

human contamination of the Earth’s atmosphere, as

opposed, for instance, to subtle changes in Solar activity

and/or Earth’s orbital path/tilt, the possibility that there

might actually be nothing completely arresting or

reversing which humans can do about the trend is too

fearsome and fatalistic to confront; so the Solar/orbital

explanations are ignored and a scapegoat sought with a

neck to wring, in this case that of the fossil-fuel industry.

Shut it down; save the Earth.

The result: impulsive protests, pickets, boycotts, riots

until there is some governmental response to assuage the

fear. But because of that pressure such response will

necessarily be more cosmetic, placating, immediately-

gratifying than substantive.

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b. Ulterior Motives

Alternately the issue is not really excoriated for itself,

but as one of a number of means for the ambitious and

disaffected to unseat the existing government for its

alleged helplessness and ineptitude. The replacement

regime may have no better solution in mind, other than

trying to divert public attention from the scarecrow once

it is in power.

In 1960 Democratic Presidential candidate John F.

Kennedy and his party raised the spectre of a “missile

gap” with the Soviet Union. Since both superpowers

already possessed the nuclear weaponry to obliterate

each other [not to mention the rest of the planet] several

times over, this monster-under-the-bed rather begged the

question, but no matter: Elect Jack and he’d zap the gap.

c. No Way Out

Or, and least confrontably, of course, there may

simply be no possible or practical solution: Global

warming may in truth be caused by conditions completely

beyond human control, and political instability and

agitation is actually, ultimately emotional denial and

apocalyptic panic.

3. Thousand-Pound Canaries

Nor is there any paucity of supernational problems to

worry the world above and beyond international and

intranational conflicts. In addition to the aforementioned

global warming concern, the United Nations identifies

the planet’s principal problems [alphabetized, not

prioritized].

And yes, this is a bummer of a long list:

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a. Africa

It is Africa’s fortune to be the most ancient and

magical of continents, and misfortune to have a history of

unparalleled suffering, often ignored by the rest of the

world, and still a scourge today. Wars and catastrophes

that would be shocking elsewhere pass in the night,

unnoticed there. A new respect and compassion is long

overdue for this cradle of human civilization.

b. Aging

There are a relative few cultures that are advanced

enough to respect, love, and care for their elders. In many

more their fate is a lonely, neglected, and miserable one.

At issue here is humanity’s regard for its own creation

and lineage, which must be relearned as much from the

great civilizations of antiquity as restored in a future

utopia.

c. Agriculture

While science has discovered much about the life of

flora & fauna, it has not been as successful in learning

consideration for them and a balance in husbandry

amidst the Earth’s still-fertile areas. High standards are

demanded beyond national borders if Gaia is to survive

and nurture her children.

d. AIDS

Many of humanity’s curses are the result of natural

hazard and universal entropy. AIDS is quite different: a

scourge that we have brought upon ourselves, and which

should never have been allowed to survive, much less

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grow these many years. Exceptional, uncommon effort

must be made to send it back into nonexistence.

e. Atomic Energy

From the myths of the ancients to the scholasticism of

the medievals, it was axiomatic that the universe is

everywhere subject to Natural Law, also known as the

gods or God, which is breached by mankind at its peril. In

daring to smash the atom, we let loose, in the words of J.

Robert Oppenheimer, “Death the Destroyer of Worlds”.

At once the least-noticed and most-final of all these

challenges and dangers, it is as imminent as the clock-

hands on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

f. Children

As shameful as the world’s treatment of its elderly is

its carelessness concerning its young, the more so in an

age where the comfort of family has all too often been

replaced by the distance and disinterest of alienation,

foreshadowing the plight of the old at the end of the same

journey.

g. Decolonization

The enslavement of entire nations by their fellows

should have become extinct long ago, yet vestiges still

linger to this day, often in economic guise.

h. Demining

Numerous local PhysWars have come and gone, but

their land mines and other unexploded ordinance

remain, maiming or killing farmers or children who pick

up such “toys”.

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i. Democracy

“The worst possible form of government except for the

alternatives.” Plato was right to dread the eikasia of the

masses; if democracy is to succeed, the electorate must be

diligently schooled in its wise application.

j. Development

It was once fashionable to assume that the poorest

and most desperate countries of the post-colonial “Third

World” would raise themselves up to the affluent and

leisured lifestyles of their old conquerors. Rarely has this

happened; the excesses of the centuries of extractions

need to be remedied just as enduringly.

k. Disarmament

It is not just atomic weaponry that poses a danger to

humanity; the proliferation of conventional armaments is

proving every bit as lethal - and, unlike nukes, is

everywhere in PhysWar use.

l. Environment

The ecosphere in all its aspects suffers from pollution,

contamination, and outright destruction: endangering

not just humanity but many other species of life as well.

m. Family

Pressures of PhysWar, economic hardship, and social

stresses threaten the safety and comfort of the family

unit, with painful consequences to husbands, wives, and

children. This relates also to the specific plights of

children and the aged.

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n. Food

The adequacy, safety, quality, and equitable

availability and distribution of nutrition worldwide.

“Unprofitable” excesses in production are routinely

discarded while, far away and unnoticed, children and

their parents starve slowly to death.

o. Governance

The prudent creation and maintenance of national

governmental structures and systems that benefit their

citizenry and sustain the resources of their territories.

Whatever ideology clothes this effort is not nearly as

important as its effectiveness and humanitarian benefit.

p. Health

Prevention and treatment of disease and injury,

accessible to the poor as well as the wealthy. Unceasing

vigilance over living environmental conditions to ensure

they do not threaten the health of the living.

q. Human Rights

Above social-contractual civil rights particular to each

nation are human rights of life, liberty, and dignity which

all beings should enjoy - but rarely do.

r. Human Settlement

As all the habitable areas of the planet have been

found and claimed by nation-states, and as none of them

has any population control or resource-sharing programs

sufficient for balance, overcrowded cities, slums, and

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ghettos continue to proliferate: breeding-grounds for

many of these other critical problems.

s. Humanitarian Assistance

Natural disasters and human PhysWars periodically

devastate areas of the planet, requiring prompt and

adequate emergency aid beyond the capacity of the local

government(s).

t. International Law

Always problematic, because there is rarely

international agreement on laws beyond those of

individual states, nor effective policing and enforcement

resources for such covenants as are agreed to.

u. Oceans

The Earth is an ocean-planet, interrupted by a relative

few, comparatively small land masses. Humans forget

this truth at their peril. If the oceans die, the planet dies,

regardless what purely-land efforts are made.

v. Peace & Security

The unpleasant truth of PhysWar is that, while

everywhere rhetorically denounced, it has come to be the

economic and industrial backbone of humanity. MW

insists that this need not and should not be so.

w. Persons with Disabilities

Further aggravating and complicating the issues of

health, children, family, and aging. personal illness,

incapacity, and weakness jeopardize not only the

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individual afflicted, but supportive friends, relatives, and

social services as well.

x. Population

Human reproduction is everywhere explosive and

completely uncontrolled, resulting in the overrunning of

resources, irreversible contamination, extinction of

nonhuman life, and extreme suffering among the

increasingly-overcrowded. Attempts to control this

epidemic are howled down as discrimination, racism,

genocide, xenophobia. Very simply, if it is not brought

under control - if it is even still possible to do so - it alone

will terminally unbalance the Earth’s ecosphere.

y. Refugees

As countries and regions become inhospitable and

uninhabitable from natural disasters, PhysWar, or

climate change, their original inhabitants will leave in

search of survival elsewhere. The “elsewheres” are,

however, already populated and resource-allocated.

Worse yet, this problem promises to increase on a

compound basis as it interacts with overpopulation.

z. Terrorism

When desperate, deprived, and angry people cannot

get the life-support and benefits they feel they deserve by

cooperation, they will attempt to seize them by force and

violence, including by the disruption and if necessary

destruction of national social orders.

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aa.

Volunteerism

While many charitable individuals and groups are

willing to do what they can to alleviate some or all of

these global problems, such humanitarians rarely enjoy

the funding and backing they need; and even face

obstruction and injury themselves from those who profit

from the existing PhysWars and other miseries.

ab.

Water

The “common denominator” of the majority of these

global issues, from oceans to populations. Clean, clear,

pure water is the substance of all Earthly life. Whenever it

is contaminated, reduced, or eliminated, the Earth dies a

little more.

ac. Women

In a world everywhere dominated by PhysWar

violence and its societal reflections, women, whose

reproductive bodies and biologies make them more

vulnerable to and dependent upon males not so limited,

everywhere suffer discrimination, marginalization, and

exploitation. Their human dignity demands respect equal

to males’, and indeed extra consideration in keeping with

their additional needs as the bringers and nurturers of

life.

4. Starfish

Altogether this overwhelming, daunting list certainly

starts ourselves, MindWar, and this book out glumly. Let

us suppose that MW can be activated to solve a

governmental or border crisis in the Ukraine. With all of

the above megaproblems still crippling that geography

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and its surrounds, is such modest success worth the time,

effort, and expense? Or is it rather the proverbial “drop in

the bucket”?

In answer MW invokes the parable of the starfish

washed up on the shore. A compassionate beachcomber

notices it and places it gently back into the sea to live

instead of die. Has this small act meant anything for the

Earth as a planet? Perhaps not, but it’s meant something

to that little starfish.

So MW is in the starfish-rescue business, saving not

everything but something, where and when it can.

That’s the justification for the MindWar book, and now

this one in supplement to it.

5. Activation

The first step in actually, rather than cosmetically

solving posed problems is the development and

application of a framework for both analysis and

corrective practical implementation.

Such a framework first identifies the problem’s

components, then fixes the problem by addressing them,

and - just as importantly - scheduling the fix

progressively against future benchmarks. So it is an

analysis with both a status quo (the situation at present)

and a status post (the situation after the fix, at a

projected future date).

6. Law

a. Definition

A descriptive law is a statement of exclusive,

invariable cause-and-effect.

This statement does not extend to the “how” or the

“why” of the process.

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b. Classification

In his Summa Theologica St. Thomas Aquinas

(1225-74) described the ordering of the universe by four

types of law, detailed below. Do not make the common

mistake of assuming that only Human Law is relevant to

contemporary conflict-resolution. The other three are just

as present today as in Aquinas’ era, and if anything even

more forceful.

Both Eternal and Natural Law are present in the 95%

“pattern thinking” of subconsciousness, which is why

they are omnipresent and preemptive of the others.

Divine Law is a hybrid: It is “announced” in the 5% of

consciousness, but is assimilated into the 95%

subconscious once accepted. Accordingly Divine Law is at

once the easiest of the three subconscious Laws for the

MWarrior to control, and in many instances an absolutely

crucial preemption. Contemporarily, for instance, both

Israel and the Islamic State [to name just two of many

examples] are driven by what they believe to be the

realities and commandments of their gods, with their

self-constructed (Human) laws and practices in

compliance with and obedience to that Divine Law

perception. This is exactly why third-party countries or

mediators fail: They ignore the [permanent] 95% and

waste their time in exhaustive, futile, and temporary 5%.

(1) Eternal Law

Aquinas, in keeping with the idiom of the Catholic

Church, saw the entirety of the universe as the creation

and continuation of the mind and will of God, which by

assumption is above and beyond human comprehension.

All that can be known about it is that it is, because there

is existence of things and their behaviors, not absence.

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This theory, however, requires the arbitrary

presumption of time being both linear and finite [cf.

Chapter #2], with the universe having a moment of

creation as well as one termination, between which is a

single, universally-interrelated timeline. In short [or in

this case long], creation requires a creator; destruction a

destroyer. Within Christian ideology this concept is

known as eschatology, especially emphasizing its

conclusion.

Internally the difficulty with this concept is that it

necessarily raises the question of priority: If only God

existed prior to creation, how could he know/distinguish

himself, or conceive creation? Is it possible for there to

be a reason for creation, necessarily requiring some

external reference or alternative - in which case known

creation cannot be entire creation, imperfecting any

theories, principles, and laws thought to be universal?

And, eschatologically, why should the known universe

be destroyed? A divine moral judgment [as conventional

religions assume], or merely the same whim that

engendered its creation? In that latter case it would

follow that all efforts at virtue by universal inhabitants

are futile, merely self-deceptive, purposeless abstinence

from the fullest experience and expression of life.

Beyond the doctrinal confines of Judæo-Christianity

these limitations evaporate. Non-linear time, as in the

circular or cyclical cosmologies of antiquity, need neither

origin nor originator, bur extend endlessly into the past

as into the future. Existence similarly needs no excuse or

cause, because it is just as primally-inherent as

nonexistence. This may be a bit difficult for linear-trained

minds to grasp, but it is helpful, if not essential to FF

technology and application, as will be seen herein.

Throughout an eternal, omnipresent cosmos, its

ordering, binding, and consistency principles - called

[Egyptian] neteru, gods, or Pythagorean/Platonic Forms

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- are also omnipresent and ageless, and of course need no

rationale for their preservation of order.

(2) Natural Law

Natural Law is Eternal Law to the extent that human

reason can detect consistent principles in the Objective

Universe (OU). This process of detection and definition is

called [physical] “science”. As it is the extension of

ineffable Eternal Law, it is presumed to be beyond

justification, and also beyond violation.

Because of Natural Law’s OUniversality it is

problematical whether any part(s) of it could be broken

by inquisitive or brash humans, if they wished to so

attempt. Certainly any disruption such violation could

cause would be chaotic in the extreme, perhaps to a

disastrous degree.

One example of such “Natural Law blasphemy” might

be the smashing of natural atomic structures in order to

release the power therein, as was done at Los Alamos in

1945 at the culmination of the Manhattan Project. The

result was the unleashing of a concentration of power

never otherwise existing apart from stars such as Earth’s

Sun. Decades later the Earth is still endangered by the

consequences of that experiment, as manifest in

PhysWar’s forest of thermonuclear weapons.

(3) Divine Law

Divine Law governs human behavior concerning

Natural Law - prescribing its use and proscribing its

abuse - as directly revealed of the mind of God through

the media of Judæo-Christianity, e.g. its “Old Testament”

prophets, Jesus Christ and his “New Testatment”

spokesman, and the Jewish/Christian institutions

making pronouncements on their behalf.

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Similar non-Christian authority is also claimed by

Judaism’s other principal spin-off, Islam.

Such Divine Law, since it is deemed to emanate from

the Godhead. is held to be absolutely mandatory and

superior to the fourth and lowest category, Human Law.

Examples are the Holy Bible of J/C and the Koran of

Islam. It will be noted that extraordinary political power

accrues to individuals and institutions with the right to

interpret such Laws.

This is of especial important in MW campaigns in

which supranational religious values - perceived Divine

Law - plays a part, because it controls the beliefs and

behavior of involved humans more than is possible with

any of their Human Laws. MW operators must assume

control of Divine Law dictates through MWB’s PSYCONs,

and re-“interpret” them as necessary. It hardly need be

noted that this requires the utmost sensitivity and

precision to establish the required “authenticity”, and

that this is an extremely irrational and emotional

environment of MW operation.

(4) Human Law

As Aquinas impressed it, Human Law comprises

codes and conventions which humans and their political

institutions create for themselves, and which, to be good

and virtuous, should reflect the dictates of Divine Law

and the principles of Natural Law. In other words,

humanity should not make laws just for their pleasure or

convenience, but in obedience to and conformity with

higher laws. When the United States’ founding

documents, or those of the other great revolutions,

invoked “endowed” and “inalienable” rights, they were

calling upon this higher-law authority.

PhysWars, and replacement MW campaigns, find

themselves in disputes often phrased as disagreements

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over national and/or international law. Once again it is

essential to be sensitive to the authority claimed by all

such laws, whether “merely” human or Divine/Natural-

authentic.

Politically-atheistic nations - such as the United

States, Europe, Russia, and China - are termed thus not

because they don’t have some religious population, but

because their governance ignores Eternal, Natural, and

Divine Law in their crafting of Human Laws. In some

countries, indeed, any overtly-religious influence in

lawmaking is expressly forbidden, as in the United States’

“church/state separation” doctrine. This fact is not

infrequently made more palatable to superstitious

citizenry by the use of elaborate but vacuous invocations,

blessings, holidays, etc.

c. MW Supertheism

From the above elaboration it follows that, to be

effective in his craft, the MWarrior must not only not

allow himself to be enslaved to any of the 95% Laws, but

indeed must actively take control of, determine, and

disseminate & “interpret” them. He must intentionally

and convincingly play, if not be God in the MW

campaign. In this role, to be sure, he must never make

the mistake of falling victim to his own PSYCON, or he

will simply have replaced one counterproductive array of

counterproductive superstitions with another.

d. Machiavelli’s Admonition

Niccolò Machiavelli [discussed in further detail below]

contended that since Divine Law is beyond the

comprehension of human reason, it cannot and should

not be asserted as justification for social systems. Politics,

he argued, belongs wholly to the realm of reason, and

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should be evaluated on that basis alone. “For the manner

in which men live is so different from the way in which

they ought to live that he who leaves the common course

for that which he ought to follow will find that it leads

him to ruin rather than to safety.” This focus on

exclusively human-formulated, achievable practicality

(the áristos) ultimately encourages man to attain dignity

by taking complete responsibility for himself.

MW therefore frequently confronts situations which,

in “Law”-terms, are a destabilized, confused mix of

Divine and Human Law, which it must remedy not just by

taking control of both in the context familiar to the

afflicted populace, but also by undertaking the

construction of an áristos or kalokagathia independent

of both conditioned constraints. Ironically such solution

may, to gain popular credence and acceptance, need to be

cloaked in Divine- and/or Human-Law masquerade.

7. Sciences

a. Physical: Natural aw

When physical scientists identify a problem in their

respective discipline, they address it against a standard of

reality - “scientific law” - which they have carefully and

laboriously developed over the entire course of human

history. Thus a problem in mathematics is first

articulated, then specified, then finally calculated and

solved by and within accepted mathematical laws. It is

simply a matter of “plugging the problem in” to those

laws, then calculating its resolution accordingly.

b. However ...

There are of course cheats.

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Sometimes when a new problem doesn’t fit

completely and comfortably into the “sacred reality” of

the accepted standard, it is not permitted to offend that

god, but is simply rephrased to force it to fit, like

Cinderella’s glass slipper being replaced with a larger one

to satisfy the ambitions of her stocky stepsisters. 1

In especially sacrilegious situations wherein a new

problem not merely annoys, but explodes core

assumptions of the accepted standard, it may be dealt

with by simply ignoring it - as for instance the question of

how a pre- “Big Bang” clump of universal matter/energy

( ylem) came into being and who touched a match to it to

initiate the “expanding universe”. 2

As long as these two rugs exist under which

annoyances can be swept, the physical sciences can at

least pretend to respectability.

c. Social: No Law .˙. No Science

With the social sciences it is a different matter. The

conventional wisdom is that they are not indeed “real”

sciences at all, because science requires a rigid,

laboratory-repeatable standard of natural law. The social

sciences, however, all involve the supposed wild card of

“human discretion”, which is generally assumed to be

whimsical, hence unpredictable. So Political Science,

History, Sociology, and Anthropology have all devolved

into the mere recording and critical evaluation of past

events.

1 “Never let an inconvenient fact spoil a good theory.” - Wolfram

Hanrieder, Professor of Political Science, University of California,

[jokingly] to the author as a graduate student ca. 1975.

2 “[Tools for scientists include] a magnifying glass for the detection of

imperfections, and a can of black spray paint to instantly cover up

inconvenient imperfections.” - Anton Szandor LaVey, High Priest of

the Church of Satan, ca. 1970.

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d. However ...

In the case of Political Science this reticence is

arguably unjustified. Human thinking and behavior can

be predicted at both the individual and the mass level.

As the author’s companion book in this series,

MindWar, explains and details, human actions result

from individuals’ perception of “reality”, collected into

“thought patterns” assembled in the subconsciousness:

overwhelmingly the product of similarly-subconscious

sensory input. As MindWar further proposes, shape

those inputs through psychological control artifice

(PSYCONs) and you shape the derived reality-patterns,

consequently the boundaries and tendencies of behavior

within them. 3

In addition to the recognition and control of human

behavioral mechanisms, a schematic is needed for the

coherent identification, analysis, resolution, and

consequent outcome of a social problem. Here too the

stats quo is woefully inadequate, indeed chaotic.

Because it is taken for granted that human behavior is

unpredictable, no attempt to address issues beyond the

immediate alleviation of emotions is made. The only

“extensions into the future” considered are those of

presumed permanent force, such as national territorial

borders and sovereignty. The result is little more than a

succession of temporary “bandages”, lasting only until a

next one is necessary. Summarily: chaos held only

temporarily at bay.

3 Aquino, Michael A., MindWar. San Francisco: Barony of Rachane,

2013, 2o16.

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B. Status Post: FindFar

Having recognized that human behavior is both

predictable and controllable, the next step is to develop a

mechanism to accomplish both methodically, wisely, and

constructively when applied to potential, incipient, or

existing problem situations. Instead of endlessly and

inadequately bandaging chaos, we shall eliminate it in

favor of a coherent, ordered, and beneficial future: Plato’s

kalokagathia. 4

Crucial to this adventure is that mere prediction - or

social-scientific “forecasting” - is not enough; too often

that assumes merely anticipating the probability of

futures of alternative chaotic-bandaging. Kalokagathia

demands that the entire process be ordered and

controlled towards a predetermined outcome. The vehicle

this book presents to effect this is characterized by “the

finding of the far” in capabilities, capacities, and courses

of action, thus:

As both an analytical and a practical tool, FindFar

(hereinafter “FF”) serves as the “reverse-engineering”

component of MindWar (“MW”), through which the best

possible practical outcome ( áristos5) is traced back to the

present by its progressively-necessary decisions and

4 The ancient Greek term καλοκαγαθία. As developed by Plato in the

Gorgias, kalokagathia identifies “moral virtue reflecting both the natural and the conventional”: the key to both individual and

community perfection.

5 Áristos (from the ancient Greek αρίστος): The best for a given

situation. - John Fowles, The Áristos, 1964.

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actions. Thereby a MW campaign is “mapped” to its

intended accomplishment.

C. FF Inspiration: Machiavelli

To the establishing of Political Science as a science,

FindFar begins where MindWar concluded: with Niccolò

Machiavelli (1469-1527), who is famed for, among other

things, being the first political scientist [as opposed to

philosopher or theorist], by seeking to describe human

politics as it is, not as it ought to be.

Amidst the instability of Renaissance Italy,

Machiavelli sought in his writings, most notably The

Prince, to guide rulers of the various city-states towards

the establishment and maintenance of functional and

stable societies. In essence he sought an applied

kalokagathia embodying the áristos, much the same as

modern statesmen are challenged to do. A closer

examination of The Prince reveals that it is no mere

collection of antiquated aphorisms, but a very timely

prescription for FF refinement.

1. Fortuna: Four-Dimensional Reality

Prior to Machiavelli political philosophers considered

incidents and issues as static questions: Either they were

abstract principles to be apprehended and approximated

to the rational, or they were set-piece, unique situations

to be solved as such. They were not a sequence, process,

nor process. As such they were three-dimensional,

occupying a momentary displacement in space.

To this model Machiavelli added the fourth dimension

of time. For him, political problems were not static, but

dynamic, indeed necessarily so. Indeed it was precisely

this dynamism which made them destabilizing.

Consequently they could only be solved through 4-

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dimensional strategies, designed and adjusted to match

and control the problems’ dynamic.

Machiavelli saw the chaotic 4th dimension as a

haphazard environment of happenstance and accident,

which he summarized as fortuna. Fortuna underlay every

political problem; therefore the initial task was to

recognize and define it according to its constituent

factors.

To be valid beyond a purely parochial - hence artificial

and ultimately misleading - level, any description of

fortuna must include proportionate consideration of the

aforementioned global problems. These should not,

however, be allowed to overwhelm the immediate,

localized issue to the point of stymying MW efforts to

alleviate it: once again the allegory of the starfish.

2. Virtu: Controlling the Dimensions

To overcome, compensate, and neutralize fortuna,

Machiavelli advocated a proactive and relentless

campaign of rationality, reason, and practicality which he

called virtu. [Today we would call it a “MW campaign”.]

Significantly [and somewhat confusingly to modern ears],

virtu did not include a “morality” aspect: it addressed

problems strictly in terms of cause-and-effect, hence

solutions similarly. Benign solutions might [and should]

suffice for benign situations, but harsh ones might

require equally-harsh corrections. It is from this blithe

pragmatism that Machiavelli received an “evil” image,

even to the darkly-comic extent of the Devil being given

the additional appellation of “Old Nick”.

Machiavelli never proposed that “ends justify means”.

The correct quote from The Prince #XVIII reads:

Moreover, in the actions of all men, and most of all of

Princes, where there is no tribunal to which we can appeal,

we look to results. Wherefore if a Prince succeeds in

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establishing and maintaining his authority, the means will

always be judged honorable and be approved by every one.

For the vulgar are always taken by appearances and by

results, and the world is made up of the vulgar, the few only

finding room when the many have no longer ground to stand

on.

Virtu is the element of MW analysis in which

identification of preexisting, “invisible” Eternal, Natural,

and Divine Law takes place. Indeed they determine the

existing presumption of virtu. It is precisely this

standard, to the extent that it is responsible for the

existing problem, which MW must supplant.

3. Necessita: Moderating Change

Having conceived virtu as an aggressive, active

antidote to fortuna, Machiavelli cautioned that in

containing the extremes of chaos, the solution wasn’t

applied so forcefully as to only displace one chaos with

another. Virtu should be prudent and limited, just

enough to neutralize existing hazards and/or prevent

looming ones: a regimen of the minimal employment of

power and force which he called necessita - literally “the

necessary”.

With regard to necessita Machiavelli was especially

concerned with “economy of violence”, emphasizing that

it should be resorted to not just minimally but as briefly

as possible, that it might be just as quickly forgotten by

the populace. [Pleasantries, on the other hand, should be

extended over time to maximize their appreciation.]

Once again the aforelisted global issues have a direct

bearing upon necessita, because some of them are

“ticking time-bombs” with varying impact upon the

specific problem addressed in a MW campaign.

If, for example, the immediate concern is internal

instability in Bangladesh, due consideration in any

solution must include the global-warming prognosis

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that the entire country will be engulfed by rising ocean

during the 21st century, incidentally aggravating the

worldwide refugee problem with its displaced 150

million population looking for new places to live.

Disputes between India and Pakistan cannot be

addressed in disregard of their both being nuclear-

weapons nations, with any such resort by either of them

triggering environmental contamination, health,

and “domino” PhysWars elsewhere.

4. Occasione: Timing is Everything

A key corollary of Machiavelli’s sensitivity to time was

his insistence that, to have maximum effect, applications

of virtu must be precisely aligned to opportune moments

and trends: occasione. Implementing a strategy too early

or too late could not only be ineffective but even

aggravate or complicate the problem it was designed to

solve.

The tacit assumption is “the sooner the better”, and if

there is extraordinary suffering involved, this stands to

reason. Nevertheless artificial changes, such as involved-

countries’ administrations, scheduled international

conferences, pending economic negotiations/aid, etc.

may impair or expedite MW solutions, as may natural

conditions such as seasonal weather patterns and

projected industrial or agricultural phases.

The ideal occasione is one in which the MW solution

appears the least intrusive and jarring to local

expectations. The more such involvement is perceived as

rescue and relief rather than invasion or domination, the

better its chances for positive reception and ultimate

success.

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5. Ordini: To What End?

As a practical political scientist, Machiavelli was

neither an idealist nor a perfectionist. Moreover he was

not a metaphysician in quest of some transcendental

nobility in the human soul. Drawing rather upon the

Stoic principles of the Roman Empire, he sought his

version of the áristos: a “best possible cooperative

stability” that he called ordini, “good order”. Indeed the

establishment of ordini would engender its own climate

of practical ethics: civitas (again after the ancient Roman

precedent of individual and collective civic duty and

responsibility).

The discerning Classical historian may well object that

Machiavelli’s adulation of Rome is rather too glib: Even

as a republic Rome struggled with many inequities and

inadequacies, and its eventual collapse into Imperial

despotism came as almost a relief to centuries of

factionalism, demagoguery, and endless PhysWar.

Marcus Aurelius’ elegant Stoicism can be seen as more

wistful aphorism than actual practice. Marcus himself

didn’t acquire or retain his throne by being the “Mr. Nice

Guy” of his celebrated Meditations!

Machiavelli was similarly no slave to ideology,

including his own or that of his Princely patrons.

Whatever succeeded, whatever came right to the point,

was his focus, with ideological models or labels being

after-decoration. Quoth Miles Davis: “I’ll play it first and

tell you what it is later.”

D. FF Analysis: Reflection

In formulating his application of solutions to fortuna,

Machiavelli also examined the way in which existing

situations and problems are identified and analyzed:

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reflective [as contrasted to impulsive or emotional]

thinking.

Authentic reflection requires active, continuing

attention to factors relevant to practical solutions under

consideration. Conclusions must draw upon both

observations of the problem and accumulated

knowledge concerning its past history and present

profile. Additionally current observations must be

considered in light of past experience to assess their

consistency and reliability.

1. Logic

The culmination of reflection is logical analysis.

Logic is that branch of philosophy which attempts to

determine when a given statement or group of statements

permit some other statement to be verified.

As a strict academic discipline logic attempts to

distinguish verifiable inferences from inconclusive ones.

It is approached through a comparison of statements,

drawing conclusions from both knowledge and

observation according to one or more of three processes:

deduction, induction, and abduction:

a. Deduction

Deduction draws firm conclusions from two or more

facts whose combination inescapably leads to those

conclusions.

Obvious care must be taken to ensure that the

constituent facts are themselves valid, and that the

applied conjunction is an appropriate, material one. All

too often deductive conclusions are “set ups”: the

apparently-reasonable, even indisputable outcome from

selectively-staged or -weighted “facts”. In such cases

deductive logic is merely a device to lend conclusions a

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veracity and inevitability which the raw data do not

justify.

b. Induction

Induction seeks to draw probable conclusions from

inconclusive information and/or sources of varying

reliability. The result is thus a judgment-call by the

evaluator.

Deduction is obviously preferable to induction, but

both have their imperfections: deduction in the case of ill-

chosen determinants, and induction in overreaching the

basis or significance of the input information.

Even more in the case of induction there is a

propensity for predetermining a desired conclusion by

staging the “analysis”.

c. Abduction

Abduction, the most precarious of the three, involves

the critical comparison of two or more deductions and

inductions on the basis of plausibility.

Abduction thus has two inherent weaknesses: reliance

upon pre-flawed deduction or induction, and evaluation

on the basis of plausibility, not truth per se. This second

failing recalls what Plato warned against as the

“democratization of truth”, in which reality is established

on the basis of popular sentiment rather than impersonal

fact. The former is the province of demagoguery and what

Plato disparaged as “sophism”; the latter characteristic of

philosophers and dialectic reasoning.

2. Logical Fallacies

In addition to the hazards of logic stemming from

either careless or weighted material from which to

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deduce, induce, or abduce, there are a number of fallacies

which may appear, again either innocently or

manipulatively, within a logical exercise itself. The

MWarrior will need to be alert for them accordingly,

including possibly within his own analytic efforts if he is

inattentive to his own biases and assumptions.

Recall that the logician does not talk with reference to

truth, ideals, or morality, but rather in terms of

verification and proof. There are eleven specific

invalidations that apply to these objectives:

a. Quoting Out-of-Context

Extremely common in contemporary news reporting

and commentary, this technique extracts a passage,

sentence, or larger statements or writings which by itself

may seem to have one meaning when, contained within

its complete utterance, may mean something quite

different, even contradictory.

More subtly, and more proliferate in academia,

policies and statements which may have served a

desirable or necessary purpose in, say, the midst of World

War II, can appear extrme, insensitive, unjust in later

peacetime.

The “internment of enemy aliens” following Pearl

Harbor is a classic example - as would be old practices of

racial, religious, ethnic, or gender discrimination here

and elsewhere.

This vulnerability highlights the importance of

context itself as an analytical factor. An ideology or

governmental structure which Americans may consider

the “height of civilization” for themselves may be

regarded as nothing of the sort in other countries or

geographic areas. The blind advocacy of “democracy”

sounds appealing on its face, but imposed on a culture

with rampant illiteracy and a mood of mob-desperation

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throughout its “electorate” could presage disaster. It is

vital for MW solutions to be contextually tailored to the

people directly impacted, not to the preferences of distant

do-gooders.

b. Sentimental Argument

Attempts to “prove” a statement by citing its

popularity are invalid. While this should seem self-

evident, it is both more prevalent and more insidious in

practice, invoking as it does the consolation of “common

sense”.

At the time of this writing the United States is

convulsed in argument over “illegal aliens” aka

“undocumented immigrants”. The very phraseology

predetermines the tone of the debate, of course.

Both proponents and opponents appeal to sentiment:

sympathy for the downtrodden simply seeking a better,

safer life; vs. protection and preservation of the United

States’ somewhat nebulous image as a “Norman

Rockwell” enclave perhaps realized only on Main Street

in Disneyland. Authentic logic should eschew both

emotions and focus rather on the economic and

population-density changes accompanying open, closed,

or varying-controlled national borders. Related,

obviously, is the question of what if anything to do about

accumulated past inattention to these questions:

deportation, amnestic assimilation, or some hybrid of

both. Either way sentiment, while tempting and

compelling, can only hinder a logical resolution.

c. Authoritarian Argument

Attempting to prove a statement by citing a

distinguished or important person or institution who

endorses it is logically invalid.

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This is a sort of stratified variation of the

“democratization of truth” fallacy, attempted in a

hierarchical or privileged environment.

In extreme situations it also refers to proclamations of

“fact” by dictators, military commanders, “infallible”

popes, and similar personages or institutions in a

position of coercive authority. In George Orwell’s 1984

“reality” is what the Party decrees it is, and any dissent

whatever is “thoughtcrime”.

Here it may be well to point out that it is just as much

a logical fallacy to “disprove” something because it is

embraced by authority or tradition: the unsupportable

extreme of nihilism.

d. Ambiguity

Ambiguity refers to words, phrases, or statements

which were intended to mean one thing but are

represented as meaning something else, for the deliberate

purpose of “proving” a position or proposition.

To be a “defender of life” is a rallying-call among

opponents of abortion, while quite obviously the phrase

in an of itself extends far beyond that application.

Additionally, of course, “life” itself is ambiguous as to

where it starts and stops, and of what it consists while in

existence.

Many if not all of the “great questions” have an

element of ambiguity in them, particularly if either their

substance or their purpose is not generally or clearly

understood. What, for instance, is a “human right”? Who

has the power to grant and/or enforce it? Why should it

apply to the human species exclusively and not to all

other forms of natural life? Is it a mere convention, an

agreed-upon human conceit within a limited audience?

Or should it be limited to Aquinas’ Human Law, reflective

of and dependent upon Divine Law for its authority?

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e. Interdependence

Two unproved statements cannot be used to prove

one another.

Classical philosophers have enjoyed a field day

playing with paradoxes and “vicious circles” of conceptual

impossibility. “Roger Rabbit maintains that all rabbits are

liars.”: Are we to believe this statement?

Less entertainingly, nations routinely claim that they

are forced into war by another’s “threat”, and that the

“threat” is proved by that nation’s armed retaliation. The

“logic” of the war is thus established. No, it isn’t: The

initial perception of “threat” may have been innocently

mistaken, or not-so-innocently fabricated, even to the

extent of a “false flag” provocation-excuse.

Within FF evaluation there is a further dynamic

dimension involved. A provocative or triggering incidence

cannot be considered in time-discrete isolation. Its

motives and origins must be traced back through time,

which one quickly realizes is a beginningless history of

venge and revenge.

Thus Nazi Germany is understandable only in the

aftermath of the Versailles Treaty, whose harshness is

explained by the perceived grievances of the victors in

World War I, whose origins came from ... ad infinitum.

It is because of this principle that MW does not seek

“justice [for the past]” in its solutions, but rather an

áristos that is forward-oriented.

f. Significance

Some statements are accurate only when viewed

together with other statements concerning the same

subject.

One example was introduced above: the internment of

ethnic Japanese in the United States during World War

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II. By itself this would seem inhumane and racist.

However there was an extremely harsh war underway

with Japan, and not all Japanese residing in the United

States were U.S. citizens. Even some who were had a

strong affinity for Japan and quasi-religious loyalty to the

person of the Emperor. Nor were Japan’s wartime

intentions towards the United States at all clear: The

Pearl Harbor attack seemed to signal territorial

aggression similar to that of Japan’s incursion into Asia;

no one could be certain. If the internment was later

deemed to be excessive and unneeded, that is decidedly

with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.

g. Argumentum ad Ignorantium

It is illogical to say that a given statement is true just

because there is no evidence to disprove it.

Just because Bigfoot or a Yeti has not yet been

captured, or a corpse discovered, does not prove that

such creatures don’t exist. Since their existence has thus

not be disproven, it stands to reason that they do in fact

exist.

Well, no. All that it establishes is that this question

lacks sufficient data to be answered one way or the other

at this point in time.

In the political situations addressed by MW, some

may well prove to be unresolvable at this time because of

key lacunæ: information which is essential but not yet

available. This may necessitate active measures in on-

location intelligence by MetaForce Branch, and/or

additional research by ParaPolitics Branch. Either way a

campaign should not be developed or implemented until

the necessary gaps have been filled.

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h. Composition and Division

What is true of the whole is not necessarily true of the

parts, and vice-versa.

Czarist Russia gradually built up an empire of several

vassal states, which after the communist revolution

became the Soviet Union. Following the Allied victory in

World War II, additional Soviet suzerainty prevailed

throughout the Warsaw Pact - as, arguably, was also the

reality with United States domination over the NATO

alliance in the West.

The situation has further complicated following the

collapse of Soviet communism and dissolution of the

U.S.S.R., and corresponding Western efforts to re-justify

NATO, even to the extent of projecting it far into south

Asia such as Afghanistan.

Meanwhile efforts to make sense of new/old nations

such as Ukraine are confusing to say the least. Some

elements advocate more separation from Russia and even

inclusion in NATO, while others prefer something closer

to the old Soviet Union.

Great Britain is currently going through the many

complexities of disengagement from the European

Community, which is further complicated by one of its

own components, Scotland, reconsidering whether to

extricate itself from the United Kingdom in order to

remain in the EC.

These are but two examples of time/space-layered

problems whose solutions depend upon what scope of

complication they are required to address.

i. Ignoratio Elenchi

This occurs, sometimes amusingly, when a person

proclaims that he is going to prove something, then

actually proves something irrelevant to the claim.

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In 1492 Columbus set out from Spain to prove that if

he sailed westward long enough, he would reach India. As

it happened, what he reached was the Western, not the

Eastern Hemisphere, though that didn’t stop him from

claiming success and clinching it by calling the local

inhabitants “Indians”.

j. Non Sequitur

Arguments which do not logically substantiate their

contentions. This can be by simple imprecision in

reasoning, or by intentional effort to sell a desired but

unsubstantiated conclusion.

A well-known current example would be that humans

are responsible for global warming because greenhouse

gasses contribute to global warming and humans

contribute to greenhouse gasses. Here the non-sequitur is

that global warming is not caused exclusively or even

primarily by greenhouse gasses, nor are greenhouse

gasses exclusively or primarily caused by human beings.

Such non-sequitur s are ignored by activists whose goal is

to attack the fossil-fuel industry; prior to “global

warming” they simply sought other alarmist rationales,

such as natural resource devastation or accident

contamination. [This is not a condemnation of

environmental activism per se, but only an observation

concerning its facile resort to emotional overstatement.]

k. Argumentum ad Hominem

Attempting to disprove something by attacking the

author or proponent is logically invalid.

Consider this statement:

When one says that God provokes the lightning, that’s

true in a sense; but what is certain is that God does not direct

the thunderbolt, as the church claims. The church’s

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explanation of natural phenomena is an abuse, for the

church has ulterior interests. True piety is the characteristic

of the being who is aware of his weakness and ignorance.

Whoever sees God only in an oak tree or a tabernacle,

instead of seeing him everywhere, is not truly pious. He

remains attached to appearances - and when the sky

thunders and the lightning strikes, he trembles simply from

fear of being struck as a punishment for the sin he’s just

committed.

From now on, one may consider that there is no gap

between the organic and inorganic worlds. Recent

experiments make it possible for one to wonder what

distinguishes live bodies from inanimate matter. In the face

of this discovery, the church will begin by rising in revolt;

then it will continue to teach its “truths”. One day, finally,

under the battering ram of science, dogma will collapse. It is

logical that it should be so, for the human spirit cannot

remorselessly apply itself to raising the veil of mystery

without people’s one day drawing the conclusions.

The Ten Commandments are a code of living to

which there’s no refutation. These precepts correspond

to irrefragable needs of the human soul; they’re inspired by

the best religious spirit, and the churches here support

themselves on a solid foundation. 6

Before glancing at the footnote to see who said this,

consider whether or not it favorably impresses you, and if

so whether it makes any difference who voiced this

opinion.

This will serve to illustrate the degree of coloration

which the source of a statement places upon it in the eyes

of audiences who are conditioned to accept or reject

anything from that source.

Pure logic evaluates statements regardless of source,

on their content and merit alone.

6 Hitler, Adolf, remarks to Lieutenant General von Rintelen on the

evening of October 24, 1941. Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-1944, Cameron

& Stevens translation from Martin Bormann’s transcripts.

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3. The Lesson of Logic

Authentic reflective thinking is a far cry from the mere

conjuring of vague opinions - upon which unfortunately

most conventional “political analysis” is actually based.

All too often we are [mis]treated to the spectacle of

policies, positions, and actions whose only basis is the

whim or prejudice of the decision-maker, with

“supporting facts” being cherry-picked, taken out-of-

context, or even brazenly invented to fit the stepsister’s

foot. Clearly such sloppiness, stupidity, and/or

dishonesty is completely unacceptable in FF - and in MW

generally.

This long list of cautions about “thinking errors” may

appear painfully excessive to a readership, indeed an age

of “civilization” comfortably accustomed to having

opinions with either no or the most flimsy and self-

serving justifications. This is scarcely a new problem; it

was the point of the entire corpus of Plato’s Dialogues to

expose it in the Athens of his day, and forcefully argue for

a rigorous, factual, and honest alternative to this

prevalent, popular sophistry. Socrates’ thanks for this

embarrassing message was condemnation to death.

Did he himself still comprehend this, this most

introspective of all philosophers? Was this what he said to

himself at the end, in the wisdom of his courage to die?

Socrates wanted to die: It was not Athens, but he himself

who chose the hemlock; he forced Athens to sentence him.

“Socrates is no physician,” he said softly to himself. “Here

death alone is the physician. Socrates himself has merely

been a long time sick.” 7

In subsequent millennia Socrates’ hemlocktail

changed first into burning alive at the stake, and in our

own “Postmodern” décadence to more decorous if just as

7 Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889).

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terminal media-blacklisting, academic tenure-denial, and

similar “shoot the messengerisms”.

Proposing and conducting MW campaigns would be

ever so much more welcome among policy-makers, easier

to conduct, and flattering to memorialize if MW were

allowed to participate in this same farce of comfortable

and convenient self-deception. It must always refuse this

sirens’ song.

E. FF Continuum

A continuum is a coherent whole characterized as a

collection, sequence, or progression of values or elements

varying by minute degrees.

Therefore the application of FF to a given problem

situation generates a continuum embracing it from a

present reflection to a future áristos reflection, connected

through time by a reverse-engineered MW campaign. As

long as due care is taken with each of the components,

the entire continuum is not only surprisingly easy but

inevitable and infallible, because the continuum is not

only comprehensive but self-adjusting in its progression.

Before proceeding to its implementation, it is

necessary to more closely examine its most crucial

dimension: time.

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Chapter 2: Time

The present is the ever-moving shadow that divides

yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

[Upon hearing of Daylight Saving Time] Only the

white man would believe that you could cut a piece

from the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom of that

blanket, and have a longer blanket.

- Allowat Sakima, Chief of the Lenni-Lenape

A. The Fourth Dimension

Chapter #1 introduced reflections, each consisting of

three dimensions in space, connected and individually

elasticized by a fourth: time (or duration). It is the

existence of this fourth dimension (4D) that changes

political problems and their solutions from static to

dynamic, making them truly intelligible only as continua.

The MWarrior, the FF investigator, must accordingly

indwell these continua if he is to correctly perceive and

adjust reality.

And so what exactly is that mysterious, elusive 4D? It

is with us constantly, inescapably, yet we cannot see, feel,

touch, hear, or otherwise apprehend it through our

natural senses. So this chapter proposes to expose this

ghostly god: to transform it from controlling to

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controlled, and ultimately to illuminate the Valley of the

Shadow of Death which is its domain.

B. Definition

1. Ding Nicht An Sich

Time itself does not exist at all. It is something which

exists only apart from itself, in the eyes and intelligence

of a distinct consciousness. It is the language by which

that external consciousness detects, estimates, measures,

and compares the changes of and between existential

phenomena displacing the three dimensions of physical

extension in space. In principle, if there were no such

changes, time would, and could, not exist.

2. Kant

This interpretation of time was most famously

articulated by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant

(1724-1804), who in his Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

contended that space (Dimensions 1-3) ant time

(Dimension 4) are independent of, yet dependent upon

one another to make them sensible concepts. Summarily:

• Different times are successive, not

coexistent.

• Different spaces are coexistent, not

successive.

In other words, time is necessarily a measurement

of elapse, which can exist only as a sequence, a

continuum.

As for spatial objects or defined areas [of emptiness],

they necessarily displace a single “point in time”, more

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precisely a “moment without time” in order to be

absolute in themselves: Two 3Ds cannot displace the

same locus simultaneously.

3D space, Kant argued, is objective, that is

independent of external perception.

Time, on the other hand, is subjective: It exists only

in the mind of an external perceptive consciousness (5D),

as an arbitrary, convenient means of demarcating

changes in 3Ds themselves, and/or compared to other

3Ds. That time has the illusion of objectivity is merely

because of conventions among perceivers as to a common

standard of such measurement, such as a “minute” or

“hour” based upon the Earth’s solar orbit.

3. Einstein

This simple and self-evident distinction of Kant’s

would be attacked by Albert Einstein in his confusingly-

named “theory of relativity”, in which he insisted against

all sanity that time is not a subjective relationship but an

objective constant, thus mandating rigidly-calculated

absurdities such as an everywhere-fixed velocity of light:

leading to such derivative preposterities as “curved

space” and “black holes”. Eventually Pavlovian science

will extricate itself from this tar-baby, or so one can only

hope.

4. Noumenon

Since time is an arbitrarily-assigned valuation, Kant

continues, it is not empirical: It is not gained or learned

from observation of natural phenomena. Rather it is a

priori; it is assigned to objective phenomena, including,

significantly, before and after they occur. Such concepts

would not be possible in a genuinely-empirical

environment.

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5. Objective Universal Dynamic

The natural, or more precisely objective universe (OU)

of matter and energy [including their balancing/

offsetting anti- counterparts] is, completely and

continuously, changing. This change permeates the OU

from the quark to the metagalactic, and the first question

is why this should be so. Why shouldn’t the OU be

everywhere static, a motionless “manifestation of death”?

Why is it everywhere “restless”?

Further, why is this “restlessness” itself an OU-law,

functioning uniformly everywhere? Science-fiction

authors and mathematically-enthralled physicists have

played with time-violations of various whimsy: warps,

distortions, worm- & black-holes, jumps, alternate OUs,

and of course the ubiquitous time-travel [as a sort of 4D

Möbius strip8 or Klein bottle9]. As entertaining as these fictional shortcuts and band-aids may be, they remain

nothing more than that, to the inevitable, inescapable

frustration and fury of the Einstein-gullible. [The still-

enshrined “theories of relativity” demystify to mere

sillyscience puffery of the prosaic fact that perceivers of

changing objects simultaneously change in and between

themselves - according to the very same OU-laws.]

8 The Möbius strip is a non-orientable surface with only one side and

only one boundary. It is easy to create by taking a ribbon of paper, twisting one end 180°, and attaching it to the other end. It would be

interesting to hear Chief Allowat’s comments concerning such

topological impudence.

9 The Klein bottle is a non-orientable surface; it is a 2D manifold

against which a system for determining a normal vector cannot be

consistently defined. Informally, it is a one-sided surface which, if

traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while

flipping the traveler upside down. Offered the experience, Chief

Allowat declines such an indignity.

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C. History, or “Reality Control”

Before proceeding into the consideration of time as a

means for comprehending the present and controlling the

future, it will be useful to examine how it has been used

and misused retrospectively:

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance

with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had

been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years

ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own

consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed - if

all records told the same tale - then the lie passed into

history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the

Party slogan, “controls the future; who controls the present

controls the past.” And yet the past, though of its nature

alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now

was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple.

All that was needed was an unending series of victories over

your own memory. “Reality control” they called it; in

Newspeak “doublethink”.10

“History” is something we can count on as a standard

of morality, as hard evidence of truth, as bedrock amidst

our whirling contemporary environment of uncertainties,

right?

Wrong. Historical accounts are written by human

beings with widely-varying backgrounds, perspectives,

motives, and paychecks. Even given perfect, immediate

access to all information about an event, no two people

will describe it, or its significance, in the same way. And

in historical research there is almost never access to all

relevant information to begin with.

Daniel J. Boorstin is Librarian of Congress Emeritus,

and is a distinguished scholar and Pulitzer Prize winner

who has authored many superb historical analyses. In his

10 Orwell, George, 1984. New York: Signet Books, 1949, page #32.

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Hidden History he proposes several laws that shape what

we know as “history”:11

(1) The Law of the Survival of the

Unread

There is a natural and inevitable

tendency toward the destruction and

disappearance of documents most

widely used; therefore there is an

inverse relationship between the

probability of a document surviving

and its value as evidence of the daily

life of the age from which it survives.

(2) Survival of the Durable and That

Which is neither Removed nor

Displaced

Tombs, burial objects, mummies,

temples, churches, and pyramids tend

to skew our view of the past. They

give a prominence to religion in the

relics of the past which it may not

actually have had in the lives people

lived.

(3) Survival of the Collected and the

Protected

= What goes in government files. We

emphasize political history and

government in the life of the past

partly because governments keep

records while families and other

informal groups seldom do.

11 Boorstin, Daniel J., Hidden History: Exploring Our Secret Past.

New York: Vintage Books, 1989.

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(4) Survival of Objects Which are

not Used or Which Have a High

Intrinsic Value

It is not only in printed matter that

rarity and scarcity induce survival.

Treasured or hoarded artifacts

frequently survive where commonly-

used, more representative ones do

not.

(5) Survival of the Academically

Classifiable and the Dignified

Teachers teach the subjects in which

they have been instructed.

(6) Survival of Documents which

Pertain to Controversies

What often passes for the history of a

practice, belief, or institution is more

accurately the history of controversies

about it.

(7) Survival of the Self-Serving: The

Psycho-Pathology of Diarists

and Letter-Writers

Historians are urged to seek records

by participants in events, preferably

those made at the time or soon

thereafter. Such are often self-serving

and egotistical at the expense of

objectivity.

(8) Survival of the Victorious Point

of View: The Success Bias

If an invention, trend, or point of view

prevailed, it and its proponents are

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assumed to be representative rather

than failed or minority alternatives.

(9) Survival of the Epiphenomenal

People often write and read books

because they cannot personally

experience what is described. It is

often uncertain whether a writer is

recording or escaping an experience.

(10) Knowledge Survives and will be

accumulated over Time, but

Ignorance Disappears

The mind of the modern historian has

access to the accumulated knowledge

and experience of the ages since the

period of the past he is trying to

recapture, but for this reason he

cannot see reality as the people of that

time saw it.

What are the implications of this for the MWarrior? It

means that:

• All of the historical sources you consult are

incomplete, inaccurate, biased, and/or

incompetent to some degree.

•• You yourself are in the grip of tacit

prejudices and presuppositions which you

have never questioned or even acknowledged

as anything to be questioned.

You can compensate for #• by going outside “blessed”

history sources to others, including those of the

“enemy” (then or now) in order to examine the events in

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question from as many perspectives as possible. You can

compensate for #•• by consulting third parties -

including the “enemy” (then or now) - for their

assessments of the issue, which you can then evaluate

along with your own towards that eventual, vital

objectivity.

D. Patterns

1. OU-Reality Construction

MindWar introduced and emphasized the significance

of “pattern thinking”, by which the subconscious

human mind constructs, maintains, and adjusts “models”

or “benchmarks” of what is assumed to be Objective

Universe (OU) -real [as opposed to Subjective Universe

(SU) -imaginary].

It is the presence of such patterns, which more-or-less

interlock into a “coherent whole”, that enables humans to

function in the OU, including between themselves.

Subconscious pattern-thinking utilizes approximately

95% of human thinking, relegating what humans regard

as conscious, or “algorithmic”, thinking to the remaining

5%. 12 Subconscious patterns, significantly, are not in

themselves dynamic; they are “3D snapshots” of reality

compositions, not 4D “storylines” [through time].

2. In/Sanity

a. Exposé

Individuals without such thought-patterns, or with

ones inconsistent with socially common/endorsed ones,

12 Cf. Leonard Mlodinow, Ph.D., Subliminal: How Your Unconscious

Mind Rules Your Behavior (New York: Pantheon, 2012).

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or discretely-changing ones, are classified [by society-

anointed “reality authorizers” such as psychiatrists and

conventionally-sanctioned-religious clergy] as “insane”.

“Sanity” is established by an individual’s agreement

with the generally-approved pattern of OU-reality;

inability or refusal to endorse this established-consensus

is deemed to be a “breakaway” from it, schizophrenia.

In fact, apart from physical brain injury or illness,

there are many reasons why an individual’s thought-

patterns may not mirror socially-proclaimed ones.

Actually no two individuals share precisely or even closely

the same sensory perceptions, so “sanity” is more

accurately a trained, conditioned individual conformity to

social expectations. It cannot be called true connection

with the OU; rather what humans consider “OU-reality”

is more properly described as an officially-agreed-upon

common SU-image of the OU.

b. The Ministry of Love

In 1984 George Orwell’s society-spokesman O’Brien

admonished the recalcitrant Winston Smith:

You are here in the Ministry of Love because you have

failed to control your memory. You have failed in humility, in

self-discipline. You would not make the act of submission

which is the price of sanity. You preferred to be a lunatic, a

minority of one.

Only the disciplined mind can see reality.

You believe that reality is something objective, external,

existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of

reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into

thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone

else sees the same thing as yourself.

But I tell you that reality is not external. Reality exists in

the human mind and nowhere else. Not in the individual

mind, which can make mistakes and in any case soon

perishes, but in the mind of the Party which is collective and

immortal.

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Whatever the Party holds to be truth is truth. It is

impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes

of the Party.

That is the fact that you have got to relearn. It needs an

act of self-destruction, an effort of the will. You must humble

yourself before you can become sane. 13

As will be evident from the preceding discussion,

O’Brien’s elucidation was by no means just dramatic-

fictional exaggeration, appropriate to dismiss right after

its tickle.

The only difference between Orwell’s world and ours

is that the environment of Oceania and its Party is much

simpler and more overt in its demands and punishments.

In contemporary actual society there is still the same

implicit expectation that “sane” people passively and

automatically embrace the proclaimed, established, and

enforced “Collective Subjective Universe” (CSU). Unlike

Orwell’s capital-punishment “Thoughtcrime” intolerance,

consequences range from mere indulgence as an

“eccentric” to ostracism or confinement as “insane”.

Specific consequences reflect the perceived severity of

CSU-challenge by the individual in question.

c. “00Ψ”: License to Instill

Political CSUs differ from culture to culture, nation to

nation. Where ordinary socialization appears inadequate,

they are enforced by conventional, crude thought-control

such as propaganda.

The identification of propaganda and similar

thought-control devices, from the mildest commercial

advertising to unendurable physical/mental stress

( 1984’s “Room 101”) is the initiatory education of

governmental Psychological Operations (PSYOP)

13 1984, op. cit., pages #205-6.

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professionals. An unspoken but very real element of such

training is that the officer must ultimately not only

become aware of his and others’ societal “matrix” [as in

the celebrated science-fiction film of that name], but step

outside of all such CSUs [thus “taking the red pill”] in

order to manipulate them. The risk is that, once entrusted

with such “00-license”, he will be unreliably free from his

own, not just others’ matrix. Conventional PSYOP

officers, while indeed suspect and mistrusted in this

regard, are paradoxically not eliminated outright because

they are also considered only peripherally competent in

their craft.

MindWar as revealed and detailed in this series of

books - MindWar, MindStar, and now FindFar - is very

obviously a complete game-changer. The initiated

MWarrior, like Caine receiving the Shaolin brands of the

dragon & tiger in Kung Fu, now posses thought-control

skill of a literally divine potency. Were profane society to

realize this, his life would be instantly forfeit. Fortunately

the true significance of MW is far beyond the

conceptualization of the “unbranded”, as well it should

and must remain: An entire world rampant with such

knowledge would be not an opportunity for enlightened

áristos or kalokagathia, but an orgiastic apocalypse of

evil: the id-monster of Forbidden Planet triumphant.

E. Memory

Memory is the “past” 4D function of human thought-

architecture, and exists exclusively in the conscious 5% of

algorithmic thinking. [Subconscious patterns may

contain elements of past experiences, of course, but

themselves have no 4D-depth.]

Conventional, traditional efforts to communicate with

and convince others in a sociopolitical environment have

been overwhelmingly limited to argumentative appeals

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and exhortations to this conscious 5%, which is precisely

why, as MindWar demonstrates, they never work.

Throughout human history, from antiquity to the

beleaguered 21st-century, only a few fragments of

intended information reach their audiences, and even

these are mostly misunderstood and quickly forgotten.

Why? Again the answer is found in thought-architecture,

specifically with regard to humans’ processing of

conscious, “episodic” memory.

1. Attention

You’ve got only six minutes to make your point. 14

And that’s only if and after you’ve gotten your

audience’s attention in the first place - which, in the Age

of the Internet - is often limited to the time/space of one

or two sentences. 15

So insists Ron Hoff, one of the advertising industry’s

most effective representatives. 16

So what’s magic about “six minutes”? That, argues

Hoff, is the effective attention-limit of an audience in any

presentation setting such as a classroom, auditorium, or

14 Hoff, Ron, Say It in Six: How to Say Exactly What You Mean in 6

Minutes or Less. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing,

1996.

15 There is no more dramatic illustration of this than the worldwide,

spectacular success of “Twitter”, a medium of Internet sound-bites.

In 2016 the United States, traditionally the preserve of long-winded

speechifying, arguably elected its next President, Donald Trump, on

the effectiveness of his “tweets” - which, in his administration, will

presumably obsolesce Franklin Roosevelt’s famous, but intolerably

slow “fireside chats”.

16 In addition to conducting hundreds of nationwide presentations,

Hoff has been a frequent contributor on communication

effectiveness to media such as the New York Times, the Wall Street

Journal, and the Chicago Tribune.

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conference room. Beyond that listeners’ thoughts begin to

wander and retention of further points evaporates.

Therefore, he advises, condense the most important

points - the ones you really want the audience to “take

away” with them - into those precious first-six. If you feel

the need for elaboration, provide a handout, write a

paper, publish a book.

Unfortunately most people don’t know how to write

effectively either, which cripples if not nullifies any such

platform. As with speaking, a document has only a brief

shot at a reader’s attention, so if you want him to

continue past the dust-jacket teaser, you’d better learn

the ropes and lasso him forthwith.

Effective writing, like effective speaking, has suffered

a lingering starvation in the American educational desert.

What was once drilled into high school students is now a

rarity even at the university level. Fortunately the art

survives in a few epistolary enclaves, and also in books

such as the life-preserver I habitually toss to the

frantically-floundering: How to Write by Herbert & Jill

Meyer. 17 Like SIi6, HtW is a very slim book; both of them exemplify their own advice and do not waste either their

pages or your eyes. If you want to maximize your

effectiveness with this book, gobble both of those and

keep each one on your bookshelf alongside it. Do it now.

2. Retention

Attention is only half the battle; the other half is

ensuring that your recipients, whether audience or

readership, not only remembers your message but does

so accurately.

17 Meyer, Herbert E. & Jill M., How to Write: Communicating Ideas

and Information. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1994.

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While subconscious thought-patterns tend to be rigid

and permanent [as for example the significance of red/

yellow/green traffic lights], conscious memory is

comparatively brief and unreliable, even when sincere,

serious concentration is attempted.

This frustratingly fickle conscious memory is known

as episodic memory, since it is characterized by the

“storyline” of 4D consciousness rather than the

“snapshot” of 3D subconsciousness.

Ominously - especially in the context of political

complexities and conflicts - this unreliability is not

accompanied by a corresponding individual attitude of

uncertainty. To the contrary, humans tend to cling to

emotionally-cherished beliefs regardless of how

objectively unsupportable they may be, until/unless

irrefutable disproofs or contradictions are presented.

Even then there is a tendency to avoid unpalatable

refutations: to “not see” them or just change the subject. 18

Just how pervasive is this episodic unreliability? In

one study cited by the RAND Corporation:

Weinshall had 34 executives in an industrial

organization record their daily interactions for a two-week

period. He found that 75% of the reported interactions

registered in the mind of one party only. Of the 25% of

communications which were mutually remembered a few

hours after their occurrence, 53% were not understood by

the recipient in the spirit intended by the transmitter. Thus

of the total interactions reported, only 12% “got through”. 19

18 In his searing satire 1984 George Orwell portrayed a then-fantastic,

now all-too-extant political culture in which politically-incorrect

opinions are neutralized through “doublethink”, or which in extreme

cases condemn the luckless “thought-criminal” to extermination and

obliteration as an “unperson”.

19 Archibald, K.A., Three Views of the Expert’s Role in Policy-

Making. Santa Monica: RAND Corporation, 1970.

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The key to retention is a corollary to the principles of

SIi6 and HtW: clear, undiluted, and well-substantiated

“take-away” points.

3. Identity

Memory is also a key element of identity, the

conscious awareness of unique selfhood. One of the

traditional distinctions of humankind from other animals

has been that non-humans live in a “perpetual present” of

stimulus/response-only, and thus are not conscious

entities. They experience 3D pattern-recognition, but not

4D “episodic” memory. 20 A cruelly-convenient

extrapolation of this excuses reducing them to mere

commodities which may be exploited, mistreated, and

killed without conscience. Such a rationale is

contemptuously callous on its face, amounting to

nothing more than a judgment on the basis of non-

verbalization rather than authentic non-feeling. It is yet

another example of humans’ propensity to refuse to

confront shameful or frustrating inconveniences.

Just as identity of self is validated by 4D continuity, so

are external phenomena. Cultures, nations, ethnic

groups, and memori-als such as symbols and structures

secure and sustain 4D (historical) significance to the

extent they not only persist in their presence but are

acknowledged by others. A revolution such as that of the

United States is validated not just by its own assertion [as

in military victory, the Constitution, etc.] but by its

recognition in the international community. History

abounds with examples of both successes and failures in

this regard; at this writing the Islamic State

conspicuously struggles to shed the dismissives of “self-

20 Cf. Victoria L. Templer & Robert R. Hampton, “Episodic Memory

in Nonhuman Animals”, Currnt Biology, September 29, 2013:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799964/

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proclaimed” and “so-called”. Conquerors regularly deny

the “full-humanity” of the conquered, thus permitting

their enslavement, expropriation, or extermination. In

the most extreme and horrific instances, Orwell’s 1984

prescription of “reality control” attempts to erase even

the previous existence of a vanquished victim. 21 As

dramatized by H.P. Lovecraft in his account of a New

England eccentric murdered by his intolerant neighbors:

From that time on the obliteration of Curwen’s memory

became increasingly rigid, extending at last by common

consent even to the town records and files of the Gazette. It

can be compared in spirit only to the hush that lay on Oscar

Wilde’s name for a decade after his disgrace, and in extent

only to the fate of that sinful King of Runazar in Lord

Dunsany’s tale, whom the Gods decided must not only cease

to be, but must cease ever to have been.22

F. Anticipation

The forward-looking counterpart to memory

manifests in two general modes: passive and active.

1. Forecasting

Passively predicting or estimating the future course of

events is called forecasting. FF begins with forecasting

to establish a point of reference for the course of events

absent active measures such as a MW campaign.

Forecasting is discussed in detail in Chapter #3.

21 Cf. #C above.

22 Lovecraft, H.P., The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, 1927.

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2. Foreshaping

Actively conceiving and controlling the future may

take many forms, from modest adjustment of existing

influences to ambitious social or even planetary

engineering. When a MW campaign employs FF actively,

to conceive, evaluate, and implement an áristos, it is

called foreshaping. This concept is explained and

expanded in Chapter #4.

G. Models

Time has also been interpreted as one of several

models or frameworks by which humans measure their

experience and understanding of the 4D. Interestingly

these are not mutually-exclusive, and indeed can be

applied cooperatively.

1. Circular

Probably the most ancient model of time is that it, as

an indicator of natural change, moves in a continuous

circle, the most obvious example of which being the

rotating/repeating Sun every day and Moon every month,

and beyond these the entire “stellar canopy” of the

Zodiac.

Today, when one is engulfed in a linear-time

environment, it requires an extraordinary effort of

vacation to imagine the experience of conscious life

within “circular nature”. Very possibly mankind’s first

sense of alienation from nature, of being a “thing apart”,

was the realization that living beings did not participate

in this endless, immortal circularity. Rather they were

cursed, so it must have seemed, with linear finiteness: a

unidirectional, inescapable trudge to death and

obliteration. Worship of nature, of its gods or God, was

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nothing less than an appeal for a presumed re-inclusion

in “lost” divine circularity: the Garden of Eden in which

everything rotated but nothing changed.

In all religious, mythical, and fictional depictions of

paradise, Heaven, or otherwise realms of the gods/God,

the keystone characteristic is deathlessness by

assimilation into unchanging circularity: consciousness

verified by individual movement remains, but safely

within eternal repetition.

To this day conventional religions promote this

wistful hope, though in an OU everywhere awash in

entropy, it is a concept ever more elusive for even itss

proponents to visualize.

2. Cyclical

Again early in mankind’s efforts to understand natural

law, it was noticed that some events do not appear to

exactly and endlessly repeat themselves, but do occur and

recur at regular intervals, characterizing cycles. At their

simplest, such cycles were identified in natural

environments such as weather, rivers, and ocean currents

and tides. Within the immediate human experience, and

crucial to its continuation, were female fertility cycles.

Throughout recorded history the study of cycles has

become ever more elaborate, extending even to the world

of economics, as in the behavior of securities markets and

the famous Kondratieff Cycle of strength and weakness.

In the realm of politics and conflict, alternations

between PhysWar and peace, cooperation and isolation,

relaxation and tension recurrently supersede one

another, but it is questionable whether such movement

between extremes is authentically cyclical, or more

haphazardly just the irregular interplay of circumstances,

strength, and weakness, both material and psychological.

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3. Linear

A linear approach to time began most famously with

Hebrew mythology, which postulated a fixed “Genesis”

setting time in unidirectional motion, as well as a final

end when all of the Hebraic god’s interests are sated and

human-inflicted tasks are completed. Such a fulfilling or

catastrophic universal terminus is theologically termed

“eschatology”, and variations of it can be found in

Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. Curiously

such “fixed. forced-march” pageants refuse to address the

obvious lacunæ of what happened before the beginning

or happens after the end.

Eschatology is most useful as a religious doctrine to

compel human docility: Awaiting the obedient are

personal posthumous rewards, while the disobedient face

unimaginable punishment. So such doctrines have both

an individual and a collective control-propaganda

usefulness.

When Judæo-Christian mythology was discarded at

the time of the European Enlightenment23, the habit of

linear history persisted, with Georg Hegel substituting an

incorporeal, impersonal “God as history” for the celestial

anthropomorph. Now the flow of events - the dialectic -

was seen to be “the mind of this god seeking to fully

understand itself through progressive ideas (thesis),

their refutations (antithesis) and a resolving synthesis

(which would thus become the successor thesis).

This comforting logical progression was disdained by

Friedrich Nietzsche, who asserted history to be a chaos of

“blindness, madness, and injustice”. Post-Enlightenment

23 The Enlightenment was a late-17th & 18th-century European

philosophical, artistic, and scientific movement which, politically,

proposed to replace secular monarchies with competing concepts of

purely-human “social contracts” forcibly established, cooperatively

negotiated, or spontaneously arising from public sentiment.

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humans could not seek justification by a divinely-ordered

history, even Hegelian-abstract, but most grapple with

unfolding events on a completely-discrete, case-by-case

basis.

Nietzsche notwithstanding, modern society still

yearns for, and to a greater or lesser extent believes in

events “reflecting God’s will”, as well as human PhysWar

“blessed [or at least excused] by God”, hence the

proclamations, endorsements, absolutions, and other

antics from international church executives down to

military chaplains.

4. Relational

As this chapter establishes, actual time is nothing

more than a standardized measurement of change within,

without, and between 3D “events”: objects or energies.

There is in this standard no divine logic or law other than

its consistency and uniformity throughout the Objective

Universe (OU). Thus time is a tool applicable only to

Natural Law.

Nor is time any semblance of an eschatological

boundary, since it can be applied endlessly and limitlessly

into the present, past, and future of Natural-Law events.

For time to cease utility, the entire OU would have to

unexist.

What this establishes within the context of MW and

FF, is that considerations of 4D are measurement

tools only, with no divine or other moral aspects

whatever.

That said, the discerning MWarrior will be well-aware

that conventional human PhysWar antagonists often

enslave themselves to “divine purposes, expectations, or

commands”, thereby motivating their populations and

armies as well as themselves. This enthrallment generates

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a MW PSYCON (Religion #13) vulnerability, which can

thus be exploited as a powerful control device.

H. Time=God(s)

The culmination of Chapter #2 may come as a

surprise, even a shock to readers. Reflect24 upon it,

however, and it will fall quite calmly and unremarkably

into place:

Systematically, incre-mentally this chapter has led to

the disarmingly-simple identification, indeed exposé of

4D as the actuality behind all concepts and

images of an OU God/the gods. In short, G/g equate

to the totality of manifestations of change in the OU,

within/without/between 3D matter/energy events. There

is no possible conceptual manifestation otherwise.

The purpose of this statement is not to gratuitously

shock reader composure with a dramatic theological

coup. Understanding the actual mechanism of G/g does

not in the least prevent or even discourage anyone’s belief

in G/g of choice, including endorsement of morality

associated with that choice.

What is important here is that the MWarrior not be

ignorant of that functional mechanism, so that its effects

upon both self and others can be identified and if

necessary adjusted through appropriate combinations of

the MW PSYCONs.

Hence the task of the MWarrior is correspondingly

simple: Control time and you control G/g.

More precisely, since the MWarrior conditions and

adjusts humans in political situations, conflicts, and

crises, control their perception of G/g through control

of their perception of time/change in the OU.

24 In the methodical, analytical discipline set forth in Chapter #1:D.

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There is no need to assume or exercise an ostensibly

religious role of any sort. Because of the actual identity of

G/g as time, just adjust the humans’ perception of time as

necessary and they themselves will transform it into

whichever of whatever G/g they worship and obey:

theologic or symbolic.

Harking back to Chapter #1, this is indeed a modern

Machiavellian prescription. Accordingly there is in this

technique no moral aspect or agenda; its object is simply

and directly the reduction, if not elimination of PhysWar

mindless, unending, and excruciating mayhem in favor of

“divinely mandated” relaxation and cooperation.

The following chapters, therefore, explore how 4D can

be accurately identified and analyzed, and then how

intelligent and constructive adjustments can be effected.

I. xD: Perspective

Establishing that any or all OU phenomena require

and are identifiable in a complex of four OU dimensions

necessitates that the perceiver be external to and

distinct from all of those dimensions, else he would

not be able to distinguish and differentiate each and all of

them.

This is the essence of the individual awareness of self

inherent in intelligent humanity. It exists, but neither in a

1-3D OU spacial displacement nor as a slave to OU time/

duration measurements (4D). It is in actuality OU-

dimensionless and therefore OU-limitless. It exists only

in and of itself, and has been clumsily identified in

conventional cultures as the individual “soul”. It may be

apprehended and examined in precise detail in the

second book of this trilogy, MindStar. 25

25 Aquino, Michael A., MindStar. San Francisco: Barony of Rachane,

2016.

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While at first realization this OU-externality of

individual consciousness may come as a shock to readers

previously assuming themselves to be merely beings of

and within the OU, once again the methodical exercise of

reflective thinking will substantiate and indeed

necessitate the OU-alienation which true and complete

perspective requires.

When not dulled by habitual relaxation into passive

physical-sensory stimulus/response metabolism, humans

are therefore pre-universal entities in and of themselves:

in reality and accuracy “gods”.

This is not some mystical or theological conceit. It is

prescient recognition of what enables the human mind to

completely perceive and analyze OU phenomena, as MW

requires.

Indeed once the MWarrior acknowledges his god-

existence, it becomes a non-concern; what is important is

the capacity for accurate perception and precise change

that this essence imparts.

J. 5D: Creation

Once the existence and implications of xD are

recognized, there is a further realization, once again as

simple and inevitable as the xD god’s passive powers:

their active counterpart.

Just as each fully-sentient human has the ability to

apprehend and understand the entire OU, so it follows

that he can turn these same mental functions to

spontaneous creativity: imagining and realizing new

universes. Such are unique to each xD individual, hence

are distinguishes as Subjective Universes (SU).

Unlike the single [known] OU, SUs are a prerogative

of xD beings, not an establishment of law to which they

are enthralled as caretakers and preservers. Thus an

individual xD may create one, several, or no SUs, of

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equally-arbitrary 4D laws. The impact of such laws can

range from the incidental to the maniacal, and from a

stability similar to that of the OU to infinite flexibility. As

Rod Serling so presciently summarized - and correctly

“dimensionalized” it:

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to

man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as

infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow,

between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit

of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the

dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the

Twilight Zone. 26

K. FF Implications

Lest the reader be unnerved by this Indiana Jones

jettison into strange dimensions and multiple universes,

the point of this chapter is just to render coherent what is

actually involved in the detection and evaluation of

sociopolitical incidents and episodes.

This in turn clarifies what adjustments are possible

and by what means they may be effected.

Finally the creative, generative capacity of the mind

enables consideration of such adjustments to range

beyond mere rearrangement of the known into

actualization and augmentation from the unknown.

The next two chapters explore first the passive

perceptive and analytical process ( fortuna), then the

active measures by which corrective change is introduced

( virtu/ occasione).

26 Serling, Rod, original narrative introduction for The Twilight

Zone, 1959.

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Chapter 3: 3D Forecasting

Indiana Jones: [stares at Sallah] You said their

headpiece only had markings on one side. Are

you absolutely sure? [Sallah nods] Belloq’s

staff is too long -

[Together]: They’re digging in the wrong place!

- Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1981

Professor Aronnax [anguished]: Yours was a dream

of the future come true. I beg you to reconsider!

Captain Nemo [dying whisper]: A power greater

than mine makes that impossible. But there is

hope for the future. When the world is ready for

a new and better life, all this will someday come

to pass, in God’s good time.

- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 1954

A. Stasis Representation

Conventional analyses of current political problems

fail to point the way to solutions for the reason

expounded in the previous two chapters: They are static,

3D pictures of situations.

When tasked to be more elaborate, they expand again

within the rigidity of a more detailed 3D picture. The

result may be a proportionately clearer picture of the

present state of affairs, but rarely a 4D exploration of past

dynamics leading to it, and almost never a 4D dynamic

beyond the present. Why should this be so?

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1. Neglected Dentistry

If an international political situation has grown to the

size of a current crisis, it obviously existed as a lesser

disturbance in the past, whether for a short period or a

longer duration. Either way, like a sore tooth, it was not

prevented by attentive brushing and flossing, nor solved

with a relatively minor filling once it became a cavity.

Only now, when the pain has become intolerable and the

sole remaining recourse is extraction or a root canal, is it

being confronted.

Neither career diplomats nor intelligence agencies

focus on “prevention”. Their time, attention, and budgets

are consumed by irons actually in the fire, nor do they

wish to gain reputations as bearers-of-bad-news. So they

remain reactive rather than proactive.

It is now well-known that both London and

Washington had decoded the Japanese Pearl Harbor

attack orders, but deliberately withheld notification of the

military commanders in Hawaii so that a “minor raid”

could be sensationalized to dislodge American isolationist

sentiment. For its part Tokyo envisioned Pearl Harbor as

something of a “bloody nose” to buy time and deter

American intrusion into the western Pacific.

These naïve miscalculations went horribly wrong for

both the United States and Japan. Admiral Yamamoto’s

bombers caught almost the entire Pacific Fleet at anchor,

virtually annihilating it. To make matters worse, bungled

Japanese embassy coordination in Washington delayed

delivery of formal war declaration until after the raid,

shaming it irretrievably as an unconscionable sneak-

attack.

The catastrophic overconsequences stunned both

nations. Roosevelt and Churchill got America’s entry into

the European war, but at the terrible price of four years’

horrific slaughter in the Pacific, culminating in the

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nightmare of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As for the

Japanese, they were appalled by their success. “I fear all

we have done,” said Yamamoto upon learning of the

devastation of the raid, “is to awaken a sleeping giant and

fill him with a terrible resolve.”

Through the lens of FF & MW, however, the real

tragedy was failure of attention to the consequences of

American commercial constraints on the Japanese

economy over a much more extended prelude. Japan’s

perception was that this signaled an agenda of escalating

hostility, quite possibly presaging eventual naval

confrontation. MW monitoring and campaign initiation

would have recognized both countries’ perspectives and

derivative motives, and neutralized them well in advance

of their explosion into PhysWar apocalypse.

2. Doublethink

Also characteristic of more than a few nascent crises is

a history of observer/analyst controversy over whether

the subjects were initially or recently serious problems at

all.

Government functionaries and bureaucrats, mindful

of their careers, are understandably anxious not to gain

reputations as incompetents or even “bearers of bad

news”; too often the fire alarm is blamed for the fire.

It is always thought safer to reassure senior officials

that their existing policies are wise and adequate. If and

when they collapse, the usual recource is to foist the

blame on “unforeseen factors” which no one could

anticipate.

Even when an issue takes center-stage, disagreement

often persists as to how significant it really is, whether it

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is a good or bad development; or even alternately both at

once: Orwell’s “doublethink”. 27

Is, for instance, the very existence of the United States

of America historical legitimacy in which its citizenry

have every right to take pride? Or is it land stolen from its

original inhabitants, the American Indians, who were not

only systematically dispossessed of their homeland but

very nearly exterminated in the process?

If the latter, does the fact that this was an experience

of previous generations excuse its results today?

Doublethink sympathizes with the Indians and weeps

for their tragedy - but simultaneously dismisses any

notion of returning their lands to them as inconceivable.

3. Thoughtcrime

Also as mentioned in Chapter #2, certain dilemmæ

whose evident solutions touch or further fray “politically

incorrect” nerves are both frequently and routinely dealt

with by refusing to confront them at all, or by

recontextualizing them into a admissible scenario.

At this writing persons entering the United States

without government permission are styled either “illegal

aliens” or “undocumented immigrants” depending upon

the speaker’s point of view. Persons denying women’s

right to control the functions of their own bodies style

themselves “pro-life”, while to the threatened women

they are “anti-choice”.

And of course nations as a whole prescribe certain

terms while proscribing others. Whether you are a

27 In the “negative utopia” of 1984, words could have not only a

variety of meanings, but even simultaneously inconsistent and

contradictory ones, depending upon the motives and needs of a

conversation. This convention goes beyond hypocrisy or duplicity to

voluntary, automatic elasticity in the underlying thought itself.

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“freedom fighter” or a “terrorist” is a decision reserved to

your friendly neighborhood Thought Police. 28

At the end of World War II the Allies felt sympathetic

to [and tacitly guilty for their previous ignoring of]

European Jews’ suffering during the War, so the United

Nations decided to give them a new, sovereign nation of

their own.

Despite the fact that it was in Europe that the Jews

had suffered, there was no question of any European

nation, even the vanquished Germany and Italy [or the

United States or Soviet Union], giving up any of their own

territory for this magnanimous purpose.

Instead it was decided to give the Jews a completely-

uninvolved third-party’s land: that of Palestine.

The Palestinians themselves were not consulted in

this decision. They were simply dispossessed by force -

killed if necessary, and continue being progressively so to

this day. Yet the justice of the original theft is not to be

questioned: flouting of this taboo is agreed by the

established international community to be thoughtcrime.

4. Tenacity

In a PhysWar analysis a crisis-potential problem such

as that of Israel/Palestine is normally represented as a

“current [3D] snapshot”, with no attention or

consideration paid to the 4D dynamic that engendered

and aggravated it previously.

Correspondingly PhysWar-genre politicians are

accustomed to looking for an equally-3D “solution of the

28 In 1984 the most feared institution of domestic vigilance and

surveillance is the Thought Police, which as its name implies is not

concerned with overt acts, but rather with individuals’ perceptions

and opinions inconsistent with Party prescription and expectation.

“Thoughtcrime is the crime that contains all others in itself.”

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moment” rather than a forward-evolving 4D dynamic as

in a MW campaign.

An example of this is the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis,

wherein the United States suddenly discovered the Soviet

Union to be moving nuclear-warhead intermediate-range

ballistic missiles (IRBMs) into Cuba, capable of reaching

almost the entire U.S.A. within 5-10 minutes.

This obviously, and drastically, reduced the United

States’ retaliatory response time from the previous ICBM

window of 30 minutes, and was thus deemed

unacceptable by the Kennedy Administration.

An immediate quarantine was announced, to be

followed by an American air strike on and invasion of

Cuba. The Soviet Union refused to remove the missiles,

and a nuclear World War III appeared imminent.

At the last minute 4D review noted the previous

presence of American Jupiter IRBMs in Turkey. Instead

of the assumed mutual 30-minute launch warning, the

U.S.S.R. had been living with, but evidently not

comfortably, a 5-minute American launch warning. In

their view comparable Soviet IRBMs in Cuba simply

restored rather than destabilized deterrence balance.

The crisis was accordingly ended when both nations

agreed to remove their IRBMs, restoring a mutual 30-

minute window. 29

The absence of a continuing 4D dynamic in the crisis’

aftermath created a post-3D-solution vacuum of

inattention, with dire consequences - once again quite

susceptible to FF anticipation and neutralization. When

word of the secret Jupiter deal eventually got out,

29 Or so it was represented. In actuality both the U.S. and the

U.S.S.R. had fleets of submarines armed with nuclear missiles

capable of positioning themselves for launch much closer to the

target(s) than either Turkey or Cuba. But being PhysWar-unsolvable,

this even greater danger was tacitly ignored. In MW it would not

have been, and would also have been neutralized.

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President Kennedy was excoriated as being “soft on

communism” - an albatross around his neck that

contributed to his later assassination. 30

5. Reflection Elusiveness

These examples above serve to illustrate how difficult

it is in actuality to pursue Machiavelli’s prescription of

truly, honestly, fairly reflective analysis in a 3D-entrained

environment.

Pressing issues of international tension and dispute

are thus not necessarily difficult to solve in the abstract,

but are often paralyzed by peripherals of bias, prejudice,

grudges, and other agendæ - some of which being taboo

to openly acknowledge. 31

If the past is forbidden, the present cannot be

completely and correctly understood. The result is that a

would-be problem-solver is constrained both by

doublethink and thoughtcrime which he cannot see or

cannot even mention if he does.

This is the dilemma and tragedy of the existing,

PhysWar environment - and it is the actual explanation

why ostensible attempts at diplomacy, negotiation, and

cooperation inexorably and inevitably disintegrate into

30 Prouty, L. Fletcher, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to

Assassinate John F. Kennedy. New York: Carol Publishing Group,

1996.

31 The United Nations expropriation of Palestine notwithstanding,

Israel maintains that its true right to Palestine comes directly from

its god, YHVH, through Moses and as established by King David. In

inconvenient actuality there is no archæological evidence whatever

that Moses ever existed, that there was an Egyptian “exodus”, or that

Judaic kings named David and Solomon actually existed. Nor is there

any evidence of Solomon’s legendary Temple; the popular “wailing

wall” was never part of any Jewish temple. Cf. Ernest L. Martin, The

Temples that Jerusalem Forgot. Academy for Scriptural Knowledge,

1994.

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PW. Which itself, as shown in MindWar, solves nothing,

but only perpetuates and deepens the Earth’s wounds.

B. 4D Fear

As mentioned above, conventional national and

international political analyses are usually strictly 3D,

painting a picture of the present situation while stopping

short of projecting its future. At most the implications of

the continuation of certain current conditions may be

identified, but not to the extent of concrete predictions.

Historical factors contributing to the present picture

may be cited, but such recitation is not true 4D since it is

merely a “construction detail” of the 3D portrait.

4D analysis - projection of the future with or without

specified adjustments - is rarely if ever ventured, the

assumption being that it is too easy for such specificity to

be wrong: The past and present are known summaries

based on accepted, endorsed facts, but far too many

variables are thought to exist to make the future

predictable or controllable.

The consequence of 3D analysis is that decision-

makers similarly default into 3D responses, which are

intended to have a desired impact only on the present

situation, changing it towards a more desirable 3D

“snapshot”. The entire process is one of consecutive static

“presents”, not a 4D dynamic continuum.

1. Political Nonscience

And also again: The validity of an OU science is

established by reliable repetition under laboratory

conditions. This is an easy threshold in the physical

sciences, wherein the elements of a given experiment are

generally easy to identify, isolate, separate, and combine.

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It’s a different matter in the so-called “social sciences”

because of the multitude of factors and the elusiveness of

anything resembling a “closed laboratory”.

As recounted in one of the companion books in this

series MindStar: Within the course of Western European

civilization, governmental concepts went from ancient

theocracies antedating the Hellenistic era to an

assortment of theologically-endorsed monarchies (the

“Age of Absolutism”), to experiments with various

mixtures of human-based “social contracts” following the

Reformation/CounterReformation/Enlightenment

conflagration marking the onset of the modern era.

Along with these metamorphoses the study of human

interaction evolved from ancient religion to Classical

philosophy to exhausted rejection of both abstract

metaphysical principles and dull post-Enlightenment

materialism.

Political Theory/Philosophy dutifully restyled itself

Political Science as it sought to dissect the institutions

of sociopolitics and reduce humanity to functional

expressions of them. Hence the academic dominance of

Institutionalism aka Structural-Functionalism.

This tidy descriptive methodology underwent a crisis

of inadequacy in the late -19th/early-20th centuries when

the sterility of mundane utilitarianism was challenged by

spontaneous revivals of Romanticism, which reached

their ecstatic apotheosis in the authoritarian orgies of

Italian Fascism and German National Socialism.

In the first decade following the “disintoxication” of

World War II - intellectual as well as territorial -

[surviving] Political Scientists strove to reestablish

Institutionalism as the dominant paradigm. Yet it

remained suspect for its former failure, and a more

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Postmodern32 fashion, Behavioralism, was advanced to

contest it.

Throughout the 1960s-70s the Institutionalists and

the Behavioralists jousted collegially with one another,

occasionally leaving bewildered students [such as the

author] wondering whether any actual attention was

being paid to politics per se. The wave, it seemed, was

more important than the water.

2. However ...

Until the 1970s Political Science had remained safely

within the 3D of present institutions and/or behavior,

with respective appeals to historical precedents to shore

up current claims of legitimacy.

Respectable Political Scientists were tacitly in

agreement that theirs was not an actual science, hence

proposals, much less attempts to extend the discipline

into 4D “futurism” were greeted with an enthusiasm

which could only be described as scant.

In 1974 SUNY/Buffalo Professor Albert Somit violated

the sanctuary with his blasphemous anthology Political

Science and the Study of the Future, which, despite a

parade of formidable futurists from multidisciplines and

an exhaustive bibliography quite adequate to pedestal

32 Postmodernism is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism,

irony, or distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various

tenets of Enlightenment rationality, including notions of human

nature, progress, objective reality & morality, absolute truth, and

reason. ( Encyclopædia Brittanica) I am inclined to hypothesize the

Lovecraftian offspring resulting from an abominable tryst of

Existentialism and Dadaism.

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them altogether, came and went without dislodging

either/both of the sacred cows. 33

Indeed in his Introduction Dr. Somit seemed hesitant

to come right out and define what he called “Political

Futurism”, preferring to shadow-box around various

subsets such as societal and environmental trends.

Ultimately he fell back on confessing his fear of the

subject he was purportedly advancing, and defended it

only as a response to that fear:

There are some skeptics, candor requires me to observe,

who would regard [political futurism] as plausible but not

persuasive. They believe futurism is a fad which is no more

subject to rational explanation than any other fad. No doubt

there is some element of truth in this view: Social scientists,

and perhaps other academics, are prone to faddism, and it

would be naïve to argue that this tendency has been totally

inoperative.

But the objection really misses the point. Even if

futurism is largely a fad, the question remains: Why this fad

rather than another? Furthermore even fads may yield

constructive results. It would be unfortunate if those who

hold to the faddist explanation permit it to prejudice their

assessment of futurism’s potential for enlarging our capacity

to understand, and perhaps even to direct the course of

human events. 34

In point of fact the “futurism” subculture of the 1970s

was a fad, along with its fellows such as space-

colonization and still-lingering Hippie communal retreats

[along with their paranoid counterpart, apocalyptic

survivalist enclaves] still right here on Earth. Such

33 Somit, Albert, Political Science and the Study of the Future.

Hinsdale, Illinois: The Dryden Press, 1974. While Dr. Somit both

previously and postviously authored many impressive texts and

anthologies exploring various aspects and implications of Political

Science, this remarkable heresy seems to have vanished from even

used-copy availability. Pity.

34 Ibid., page #4.

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positive and negative fantasies, heralded by prophets

such as Gerard K. O’Neill of the space-colonial L5

Society 35 and the irrepressible Timothy Leary, who felt

that to properly go high one should be high: L5

psychedelicized to SMI2LE:36

He’ll fly his astral plane,

Takes you trips around the bay,

Brings you back the same day,

Timothy Leary.

He’ll take you up, he’ll bring you down,

He’ll plant your feet back on the ground.

He’ll fly so high, he’ll swoop so low.

Timothy Leary. 37

The 1970s’ exciting aspirations gradually evaporated

in the face of disintoxicating realism: NASA’s post-Apollo

budget dried up, reducing extraterrestrialism to the

relatively-workhorse space shuttle, which was limited to

utilitarian military and meteorological tasks; initial

35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L5_Society

36 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Leary

37 The Moody Blues, “Legacy of a Mind”, 1968.

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expectations of civilian use, even passenger-tourism,

faded slowly, numbly away. 38

3. Tools

The methods employed by conventional futurists

[including rogue Political Scientists] are as follows:

a. Trend Extrapolation

The most commonly- and effortlessly-used, TE simply

selects relevant current trends [in economics, population

growth, and similar measurables] and projects them

ahead as many years as desired, either lineally or

logarithmically as seems appropriate.

The more trends are added to a given projection,

presumably the more reliable it will be. Or, if the trends

are badly chosen, the less reliable the entire picture.

TE has two principal vulnerabilities:

• Presently-unknown discoveries, inventions,

or other outside factors may skew or even

38 In 1976 Paul Kantner and I brainstormed some initial plans for

“Project Andromeda”, which would have contracted the orbital

shuttle to broadcast select Jefferson Starship music worldwide as

well as on Andromeda Galaxy M-31 calculated vectors absent the

distortions and limitations of Earth’s atmosphere.

The equipment would have required relatively little space and

energy aboard the shuttle(s).

Project Andromeda went as far as initial correspondence with

NASA, but was aborted when civilian shuttle use was preempted.

Project Andromeda was inspired by Kantner’s dreams of not just

hiring, but hijacking the United States’ first starship, in his 1970

Hugo Award-nominated album Blows Against the Empire:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blows_Against_the_Empire

In the 21st-century “Internet age”, of course, worldwide music is

commonplace. The interstellar cartographics were resurrected for

use in my 1977+ Star Wars novel FireForce:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1533264392

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obsolesce a present trend, as in cars

superseding horses as transportation.

•• A chosen trend may be inaccurately

weighted against others, or against non-

trend developments such as the outbreak of

a PhysWar.

b. Flow-Tree

Alternately called a “flow-chart” or “decision-tree”,

this is not so much a forecast as a systematic narrowing

or elimination of possibilities.

The present is represented as a problem, and possible

decisions or actions addressing it are drawn from it. Each

such solution brings with it new situations and possible

new problems, all of which are consecutively charted.

The idea is that the flaws in impracticalities will be

quickly apparent and cause that flow-option to dead-end.

The more realistic options continue, either dead-ending

further along or surviving the extent of the charted

sequence.

This, then, is a way of taking the vague and making it

explicit, along with consequences. It also has the

advantage of being useful for both individuals and

groups, as anyone looking at the diagram can offer

modifications to it.

c. Cross-Matrix

This is another “narrowing” technique, and indeed

cab be used together with a flow-tree in this function.

All of a problem’s components are listed along both

the top and one side of a matrix [for example money,

population, weather, disease, food, etc.]. Under each

factor are listed possible changes to it per decisions which

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could be taken, such as a 50% increase or decrease of the

food supply]. Next the intersection boxes on the matrix

are filled in as accurately as possible. For instance a 50%

reduction in the food supply intersected with the current

population health or disease statistic can be estimated to

increase it by an appropriate calculation.

The filled-in intersection boxes can then be valued or

color-coded as to proportionate influence. The result is a

large, filled-in matrix with a mixture of, say, red/yellow/

green intersections. This systematizes the decision-

maker’s options - ideally as simply of choosing a course of

action generating the most green and the least red boxes.

Both flow-tree and cross-matrix devices are so

sensible and methodical that one would suppose all

important decisions to utilize one or both of them.

Unfortunately most decisions don’t, being instead the

product of vague, unweighted emotions and impulses.

d. Scenarios

The use of scenarios is an exercise in reverse-

engineering and is thus very close to FF, falling short of it

mostly in its sloppiness.

The decision-maker conjures up a picture of the

situation as he would like to see it without its present

problem(s).

In the case of the Israel/Palestine antipathy, this

might be a one- or two-state solution with both groups

coexisting peacefully.

Next the decision-maker juxtaposes this ideal to the

present and attempts to come up with courses of action to

bridge the two.

While such scenarios are often visualized as ideals, it

is rarely the case that the necessary paths to them are

worked out, for which, indeed, flow-tree and cross-matrix

charting would be useful.

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e. Models/Games/Simulations

Another “fad” in certain circles of late-20th-century

academia was for an instructor to gather a group of

students together, present them with a real-world

problem, assign each one a role significant to it (chief of

state, military commander, financier, ambassador, etc.),

and challenge them to address the situation.

This could be interesting, stimulating and fun, but it

rarely translated into an actual policy consensus which

could be effectively communicated to the modelers’ real-

world counterparts.

In the present day its ghost persists in the form of

elaborate computer-games and simulations, usually for

only one or two players, enabling them to fight/avoid

World War III from the convenience and safety of a

keyboard.

f. Experts

The simplest of all 3D forecasting approaches is just

to summon a person, office, or agency assumed to be an

expert on the topic at hand, then allow that expert to

identify, narrow, and propose the solution.

While on its face this sounds sensible, its vulnerability

is that few experts are truly disinterested: each has a

motive of some sort: economic advantage, power

hegemony, ideological bias, affection/grudge.

At the onset of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis the

Kennedys, inexperienced in dealing with the Soviet

Union, summoned Dean Acheson to the White House to

advise them. Acheson had decades of diplomatic

experience, but with the much more primitive and

paranoid Soviet Union of Stalin’s day. Had his advice

been followed now, the crisis would have been locked

immediately into inflexible, threatening extremes and the

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inexorable consequence of war. Fortunately Acheson’s

rigidity was recognized as anachronistic and rejected.

Another common failing of expertise is that,

consciously or otherwise, the decision-maker seeks out

experts who will reinforce what is already his bias. He is

looking not for objectivity but reassurance and a more

elaborate and impressive argument for the desired action.

Nay-sayers aren’t invited, or if present will be tuned-

out or tokenized “devil’s advocates” - as happened to

Under Secretary of State George Ball when he opposed

Lyndon Johnson’s escalation of the Vietnam War.

g. Cycles

Ostensibly the most obscure, least understood, and

least used 3D tool, cycles might perhaps be more aptly

discussed in Chapter #2. These are major or minor

changes in background circumstances which recur over

identifiable periods of time, sometimes identically but

mostly with evolutionary modifications.

A good example of such a mechanism is the

Kondratieff Cycle:

In 1925 Soviet economist Nikolai Kondratieff

published his observation that in contemporary

industrialized countries the common, international

economy surged and subsided in 40-60 year cycles

(generally referred to as “Kondratieff Waves”).

Since then these cycles have proved reliable enough to

continue their use in some economic schools, along with

later-formulated “short waves” subsidiary to the “long”

KWs. 39

39 #PR-76-10009, An Analysis of the Cyclical Dynamics of

Industrialized Countries. Langley, Virginia: Central Intelligence

Agency, January 1976.

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C. Resources

I use not only all the brains I have, but also all I can

borrow.

- Woodrow Wilson

Even in conventional, 3D forecasting, the task of

identifying, collecting, and correlating all of the material

data, often on a worldwide scale, is daunting.

Fortunately, the more so in the “Internet Age”, numerous

instant-access and either free or inexpensive resources

exist to facilitate this chore.

Listed here are some of the most practical ones I have

found and utilized with impressive objectivity, substance,

and reliability.

Most forecasting services today are understandably in

the genre of economics and marketing, as they exist for

commercial purposes.

The ones I have identified here don’t ignore

economics, but are more principally focused on

sociopolitical forecasting.

1. World Future Society

From its website:

The World Future Society is the world’s premier

community of future-minded citizens. A 501(c)(3)

organization founded in 1966, the organization is driven by

three critical objectives:

(1) Uniting people passionate about building their

desired futures through an ecosystem of members, chapters

and partners.

(2) Advocating to bring to public awareness the world's

major challenges. We ignite the futurist mindset in those

who no longer want to be bystanders.

(3) Building global labs where futurists of all types are

able to produce solutions, that are not solely reactive to the

present, but to architect new systems that make the broken

ones obsolete.

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Our membership is made up of futurists of all types;

entrepreneurs, executives, forecasters, economists,

scientists, students, parents, and conscious citizens. We are

united by our shared desire to tackle the world’s biggest

challenges. 40

As perhaps not surprising given its 1960s’ inception,

WFS is less a directed-research resource than it is an

initiation into the hobby & habit of “futurism”:

contemplating and pursuing one’s life with “the future”

accented. It’s a bit like visiting Disneyland and spending

the day in Tomorrowland.

WFS publications don’t emphasize alerts and alarms,

bur rather on general environments in a “world citizen

lifestyle” context. While not deliberately ignoring or

concealing unpleasant information, its tone is clearly

positive, constructive, and optimistic.

For its first several years WFS had two levels of

individual affiliation: “regular” and “academic”. The latter

was indeed for professionals interested in detailed,

directed research. During my graduate studies I found it

invaluable, and in those pre-Internet days of the 1970s,

both versatile and responsive.

Today there are more-expensive WFS individual

memberships, but they appear to principally provide

more preferential amenities at WFS events.

2. Stratfor

Stratfor is the most efficient targetable forecasting

resource I’ve found on the Internet as of 2017 publishing

time. It provides a mix of both free and subscription

services. From its website:

40 http://www.wfs.org

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What We Do

As a geopolitical analysis firm, Stratfor provides valuable

context to global events that empowers businesses,

governments, and individuals to confidently navigate an

increasingly complex international environment. Founded

20 years ago around the principle that transformative world

events are not random, but are in fact predictable, Stratfor

has grown into one of the world's most respected providers

of strategic analysis and forecasting.

How We Do It

By leveraging a deep understanding of history, politics

and geography along with our unique methodology, Stratfor

delivers informed perspectives on today's events and

develops a more accurate assessment of the future.

Dedicated teams of researchers, analysts and writers distill

massive amounts of open-source information each day and

examine it through the lens of geopolitics to develop

comprehensive, independent, unbiased and nonpartisan

analyses. Stratfor analysis cuts through the noise to offer

valuable understanding and actionable insights to help our

readers succeed.

Why We Do It

Globally engaged individuals, Fortune 500 companies,

universities and organizations across an array of industries

turn to Stratfor for objective geopolitical analysis and

forecasting that reveals the underlying significance and

future implications of emerging world events.

Our Methodology

Stratfor's proprietary methodology is our framework to

predict the shifts in geopolitical power that shape our world

and interpret the significance of today's global events. It

combines an understanding of geopolitics, detailed analysis

and rigorous internal debate, which is then refined into a

unified Stratfor perspective. Our analysts begin with a flood

of open-source information, filter out the noise, unearth

emerging paradigms, challenge assumptions and reconcile

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conflicting truths to produce actionable analysis and

forecasts. 41

3. Hudson Institute

One of the older and more venerable forecasting

enterprises is the Hudson Institute - very much like

Stratfor in its scope and sophistication, but more of an

academic institution on its own terms - internally-

prioritized and generated publications and analyses

rather than external user-driven. Still its sophistication

and reputation remain impeccable.

I’d recommend Hudson as a more in-depth backup to

Stratfor, assuming that it happens to have made detailed

studies of your topic of special interest,

Founded in 1961 by strategist Herman Kahn, Hudson

Institute challenges conventional thinking and helps manage

strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary

studies in defense, international relations, economics, health

care, technology, culture, and law.

Hudson seeks to guide public policy makers and global

leaders in government and business through a vigorous

program of publications, conferences, policy briefings, and

recommendations. 42

4. United States Government

The advantage of U.S. Government resources is that

they are USGr: packed with information, obtained and

continuously updated through worldwide bureaucracies,

and blessed with essentially-unlimited budgets. Their

websites abound with this information, usually free for

the viewing & downloading.

41 https://www.stratfor.com

42 http://www.hudson.org

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The disadvantage of USGr is also that they are USGr,

with their information compiled and published to be in

support of Government/current Administration policies,

interpretations, and objectives. This shouldn’t be taken to

mean that the analysts in question are biased or myopic -

just that they understand and approach their primary

responsibility as supporting U.S. policy rather than

objectively critiquing it.

For specialized forecasting in related subjects such as

finance and military, it’s useful to consult the websites of

the most directly-relevant Executive Departments, as in

these examples Commerce and Defense.

For more general information, particularly with a

political focus, the two most useful are the Department of

State and the Central Intelligence Agency.

a. Department of State

The Department of State website has an extensive

library of sociopolitical resources, cross-related by

various geographic areas, specific nations, non-national

ethnic and religious groups, and other classifications. 43

These are identified and accessed by drop-down menus of

the website, which efficiently narrow the user’s search.

b. Central Intelligence Agency

Contrary to its popular image as a behind-the-Green-

Door tree-fort, the Central Intelligence Agency both

publishes and makes websearch-available vast quantities

of information [at the Unclassified level]. Per its website:

The CIA releases millions of pages of documents each

year and frequently releases items of public interest on this

website. The Library contains a wealth of information, from

43 https://www.state.gov

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unclassified current publications to basic references, reports

and maps.

The World Factbook provides information on the

history, people, government, economy, geography,

communications, transportation, military, and transnational

issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes:

maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the

World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the

World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of

the World map. 44

It should be added that both DOS and CIA also

attempt to be responsive to public requests for

specialized information, and not just within Freedom of

Information Act (FOIA) formalities. Simply send them a

letter with your question of interest, and you may be

surprised by the materials it elicits. 45

44 https://www.cia.gov/library

45 Sometimes this occurs with James Bond melodramatics. Some

years ago I wrote to the CIA asking for any information they might

have on Kondratieff Cycles. About a month later I received a copy of

an extensive CIA report, with the envelope’s return-address that of a

gentleman in Arlington, VA. When I wrote to thank him, my letter

was returned as “undeliverable”. As I later discovered, both the

person and the address were fictitious CIA blinds.

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Chapter 4: Phases, Layers, & Dimensions

The Three Laws of MindWar

1. MindWar is the conduct of war without injury or

death to human beings, and without the

disruption or destruction of their means of

livelihood.

2. While MindWar includes access to the human

mind, this is done only to stimulate its capacity

for and interest in cooperative problem-solving.

3. PhysWar is the consequence of MindWar failure.

Therefore MindWar must not be allowed to fail. 46

A. MindWar Interlocks

As introduced in MindWar and expanded herein, a

MW campaign addressed to a given problem situation is

completely alien to conventional PhysWar reactive

flailing. PW invariably fails, and fails with substantial

destruction, affliction, and loss-of-life, because it is

inherently a desperate, last-resort reaction to similarly-

haphazard diplomacy: ultimately a series of ad hoc

bandages applied, too little/too late, to a widening social

46 Aquino, Michael A., MindWar. San Francisco: Barony of Rachane,

2016, page #38.

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wound. In the idiom of FF, it is a succession of

disconnected 3D artifices.

The same national or international environment

under MW vigilance ideally never permits a wound to

develop in the first place. MW resources’ intelligence

anticipates potential disequilibrium and adjusts it back to

stability before the ordinary humans involved are even

aware of any potential disruption.

Thus the majority of MW solutions in effect apply

solutions preempting their associated problems.

B. MW Resources

1. The MindWar TriForce

As detailed in MindWar Part II, the United States’

MW capability is concentrated in three United States

Army MW Branches, evolved from the old Special

Operations Forces: MetaForce/MFB (superseding

Special Forces/SF), MindWar/MWB (superseding

Psychological Operations/PO), and ParaPolitics/PPB

(superseding Civil Affairs/CA).

Despite transparent efforts to cosmeticize them, all

three of the obsolete Branches functioned de facto as

“battlefield janitors”, tasked with cleaning up the mess

left by PW combat Branches’ death and destruction.

These three renewed Branches are designed to

function both independently and in concert with one

another, throughout the [up to] four Phases of a MW

campaign.

2. The PhysWar Branches

Importantly and crucially, the MW Special Operations

TriForce is the primary and exclusive deployment

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presence of the United States in a failed-diplomacy crisis

situation.

The PW Branches remain in stand-down, as a

“contingency threat” only. In this role they may be

paraded, brandished in displays and “war games”, and

otherwise showcased as may lend additional enthusiasm

for and cooperation with the MW campaign, but any

actual use of their destructive capabilities is absolutely

prohibited.

In this role the PW weaponry becomes treated, and

regarded, with exactly the same foreboding as nuclear

capabilities since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: They are

taken utterly seriously, but their actual use is never

considered an actual option.

In a pre-campaign environment (“Phase Ø”),

geographically-assigned MFB teams remain alert for

imbalances. If such occurs and cannot be rebalanced

through the actions of one or more MFB teams, the

mental-conditioning technologies of MWB are introduced

to condition the affected humans towards greater

receptivity to the MFB efforts. While in a Phase Ø mode,

these processes are completely invisible: not so much

clandestine as quietly unnoticed. MF teams are

constituted to blend in seamlessly with local races and

cultures, while the MWB Psychological Controls

(PSYCONs) are predominantly activated from remote

distances to target the subconscious functions of the

human brain. 47

As its designation connotes, Phase Ø is, like an

ordinary PW environment, one of 3D stasis. There is no

need for 4D dynamics until/unless destabilization

reaches a severity and inertia requiring the declaration of

a MW campaign (Phases 1-4).

47 The 14 principal PSYCONs are detailed in MindWar Chapter #3.

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C. MW Declaration

If MW Phase Ø monitoring fails to preserve

equilibrium, and a policy decision is taken to actively

resolve the disequilibrium, then a MW campaign is

formally commenced and Phase 1 initiated.

As prescribed in MindWar, a MW campaign begins

with the formality of a “Declaration of MW”. 48

1. PW-Era Status Quo

a. PW Declarations

In conventional PhysWars (PW) such Declarations,

when antagonists even bother with them, have been

emotional, angry accusations of grievances along with the

stated intent to respond to them by PW violence. The

supposed goal of such PW is not part of the Declaration.

Indeed throughout recorded history the dismaying

fact is that PWs have never known where they would be

going once declared; such bothersome details were

impatiently brushed aside in the passion of the

commencement, for others to grapple with later,

assuming anyone survived with the acumen and

resources necessary to do so.

Perhaps the sole, and underappreciated exception to

this was the practice of Imperial Rome to announce its

campaigns to a decided enemy, and even more

importantly to convey the inevitability of Roman victory

in the undertaking. As Livy observed:

The terror of the Roman name will be such that the

world shall know that, once a Roman army has laid siege to a

city, nothing will move it - not the rigors or winter nor the

weariness of months and years - that it knows no end but

48 Ibid., page #184.

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victory and is ready, if a swift and sudden stroke will not

serve, to preserve until that victory is achieved. 49

The effect of this perception obviously went far

beyond the battle or war of the moment; it was a major

deterrent to provocations of the Empire, contributing to

the famous - and never-repeated - Pax Romana. The Xth

Legion’s 375’ earthen ramp, constructed in 73 C.E. to the

“unassailable” Judæan fortress of Masada, remains to

this day a mute, stark testimony to this implacable

determination. 50

b. PW NonDeclarations

Since aggressive PW was pro forma outlawed upon

the post-World War II founding of the United Nations, it

is no longer “politically correct” to baldly aggress. Hence

aggressor nations, including as so-inclined the United

States, couch PW Declarations as defensive responses to

unprovoked belligerence. 51 If a suitably-outrageous

49 Keller, Werner, The Etruscans. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974,

page 262.

50 Glorified Hollywood revisionism notwithstanding, the Sicari rebels

who seized Masada in 70 C.E. first massacred its Roman garrison,

then wreaked havoc in the countryside, including slaughtering 700

women and children in the nearby village of Ein Gedi. In 73 the

Roman Governor Lucius Flavius Silva personally led the Xth Legion

to put a stop to the terror. When Silva breached Masada, he found

that the Sicari had killed themselves and any who refused suicide:

960 men, women, and children in all. Only two women and five

children were found alive. Cf. “Masada”, Wikipedia for multiple

sources.

51 All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the

threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political

independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with

the Purposes of the United Nations. - United Nations Charter,

Article 2, ¶4.

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incident is not ready-to-hand, an appropriate false-flag

operation is duly executed and bewailed.

c. False-Flag

False-flags are covert attacks staged so as to appear

conducted by a nation or group other than oneself. They

are used to attack one’s own territory & people, or others’

for whom one wishes to falsify actual responsibility.

As George Orwell indifferently observed in 1984,

domestic populations emotionally reject believing that

their own governments would kill some or even many of

them merely to excuse attacking a foreign target. Such is

appallingly not just routine, but unremarkably so. 52

2. MW-Era Status Post

a. “Enemy” Definition

The MW contrast to this shameless, shameful PW

danse macabre could not be more diametrically its

repudiation.

Most essentially and immediately, humans are not

harmed nor their property destroyed, because they are

never defined as “the enemy”. 53

Rather the enemy is the problem situation itself,

against which all involved humans are in alliance to

overcome.

52 “The Horror ... the Horror ...” - Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon

Brando), U.S. Army Special Forces, in Francis Ford Coppola’s

Apocalypse Now (1979).

53 This includes the armed forces of other interventionists, regardless

which government or faction they may be supporting. A MW

campaign blankets all humans, including one’s own forces, with the

same MW PSYCONs. It is thereby that the desired cooperative

atmosphere is created among all participants.

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b. Transparency

MW is thus a completely cooperative effort, and as

such is prosecuted equally-completely in the open:

Neither its intelligence, planning, or execution is

concealed or Classified.

When MindWar first appeared in 2013, this brazen

transparency elicited instinctive consternation among

strategists indoctrinated and seasoned in operational

secrecy. MW seemed glaringly, indeed blasphemously

counterintuitive. Upon reflection the logic overcame the

knee-jerk: Consideration of the entire range of human

perspective concerning a given problem is required for an

equally-comprehensive solution: composition rather than

imposition.

c. Phase 1 Diagnostics

The principal activity of Phase 1 is, thus cooperatively,

to thoroughly identify and diagnose the “disease”, not its

symptoms.

Here too the difference from PW is dramatic, since

PW invariably focuses on the expressions and

consequences such as civil disturbances and armed

revolts, and directs its energies towards suppressing

them.

MW, on the other hand, focuses on such eruptions’

underlying causes, through a sequential, layered

application of diagnostics, culminating in the campaign-

activating Foundation Diagnosis (FD).

d. Foundation Diagnosis

The final and most comprehensive in a progressive

series of situation diagnostics in Phase 1 of a MindWar

campaign.

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The FD is so-named in tribute to Dr. Isaac Asimov’s

“psychohistory” 54 Foundation novels, the FD takes initial

form in a 3D research & analysis process, but then, and

crucially, becomes 4D dynamic as it is progressively

modified throughout the subsequent three Phases of the

MW campaign.

Unsurprisingly it is the completed 3D Phase 1 FD

which is formalized and published as the Declaration

of MW. It defines the problem situation in its totality,

focusing upon its underlying causes. It identifies the

combined national, factional, and/or individual human

interest and participation in a campaign to overcome it.

Finally it [preliminarily] outlines the standards

according to which the campaign’s success will be

measured in-progress and finally achieved upon MW

victory.

Further unlike the haphazard blindness of PW

Declarations, a MW Declaration is conceived and

constructive to be inevitable and irresistible. It is a course

of action which not only takes all variables into account,

but establishes their pre-control and constant adjustment

during the campaign, never allowing their inertia to

exceed that of the campaign.

Thus the Third Law of MW - that it cannot be

allowed to fail - is not mere hyperbole: It is absolutely,

uncompromisingly in earnest.

54 Psychohistory: That branch of mathematics which deals with the

reactions of human conglomerates to fixed social and economic

stimuli. Implicit in this definition is the assumption that the human

conglomerate being dealt with is sufficiently large for valid statistical

treatment. A further necessary assumption is that the human

conglomerate be itself unaware of psychohistorical analysis in order

that its reactions be truly random. - Isaac Asimov, Foundation, 1951

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D. Dual-Direction

1. Obverse: Áristos

In Phase 2 of a MW campaign, the 3D Phase 1 FD/

Declaration initially constructed by the MetaForce (MF)

research & analysis assets, with later augmentation by

corresponding teams and PSYCONs from the MindWar

Branch (MWB) begins its translation into the campaign’s

dynamic, 4D continuum.

The 4D directional goal MFB & MWB develop is the

necessary consequence and culmination of the campaign:

the áristos - the “best possible practical solution”.

Referring back to Chapter #1, this is Machiavelli’s

combination of virtu and occasione, resulting in ordini. It

would be quite possible to limit the MW campaign to this

implicit practicality, and indeed in certain cases

limitations caused by external factors such as time,

logistics, MW resources, or the intrusion/complication of

other problems may dictate this conservatism.

2. Reverse: Kalokagathia

Ideally, however, a MW campaign addresses its

outcome 4D bidirectionally. Complementing the forward-

projecting áristos is a reverse-projected ideal outcome,

corresponding to Machievelli’s vision of civitas. This is

the “best imaginable” outcome, comprising a “clean sheet

of paper” or “from the ground up” redesign of the target

national, community, geographic area, or other

demarcation of the MW campaign scope. Thus

Machiavelli’s civitas corresponds to Plato’s ideal of

kalokagathia. 55

55 Cf. Chapter #1.B.

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3. ParaPolitics Branch

Conception and construction of this ideal, however, is

not utopian daydreaming: It requires a methodical

approach, and a correspondingly-expert authority to

exercise it.

This operation is the responsibility of the third

component of the MW Special Operations TriForce:

ParaPolitics Branch (PPB).

As developed in MindWar Chapter #5, PPB is the

evolutionary successor to the PW-era Civil Affairs

Branch, a “battlefield janitor” element relegated to

cleaning up the carnage, destruction, and life-support

devastation left in the wake of PW combat operations.

In a MW campaign, of course, such a catastrophic

disintegration is never allowed to occur. The preemptive

and adjusting activities of MFB & MWB stabilize the

situation before it has a chance to devolve to that state.

However the purpose of a MW campaign is not just to

secure such stability, nor even to perpetuate it per

áristos; it is to perfect it - or, more precisely, to establish

a self-perfecting polis.

4. Agathon

PPB’s point of planning departure (which happens

also to be its point of ultimate future arrival) is not a

governmental, political, or social structure per se, but

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rather an all-encompassing centerpiece of morality: in

Platonic terminology the Agathon. 56

To illustrate and elaborate:

The most stable, civilized, and pleasant societies of

antiquity - such as Egypt, Crete, and Hellenic Greece - share

a surprisingly simple, yet subsequently forgotten principle:

that of a polis defined, united, and energized by a

common moral principle.

In Egypt this was the cosmic principle or neter (god/

goddess) of Maat, usually simplified as “justice” but more

precisely extending to virtue, fairness, and rectitude in all

personal and community affairs. There was no concept of

individual rights against the government, because

government was viewed as a system ordered by the neteru.

Similarly each Egyptian, whether high- or low-born,

participated in this system. Crime and corruption were of

course possible, but inadvisable because of the conviction

that vice would be punished severely after Earthly death.

Virtue in Mesopotamia was understood as obedience to

the willful desires of the god(s), not harmony with their

natural principles. The “wrath of the gods” was feared by the

state in Mesopotamia, as it was never in Egypt (which was

ruled by a god-king). The Mesopotamian king sought the

“right ruling” of his community, in accordance with the

Akkadian principle of Shulmu (later adopted by the Hebrews

as Shalom): a term meaning not just “peace” but the

community well-being that engenders peace.

Hellenic Greece includes the civilizations of Crete (b.

2700 BCE), Greece (Mycenæ b. 1600 BCE, Athens b. 600

BCE), the Ægean islands, and Magna Græcia (Sicily and

southern Italy). The Hellenic Greek cultures are most

notable for exalting the intellect - for making the universe an

56 In classical political thought there was a concern to locate

authority beyond anything that anyone could appropriate, either in

wisdom or in justice, or, as in the Platonic Agathon - the supreme

Good which is beyond definition. The Agathon can accommodate as

many formulations as there are human beings, and every person can

make his own report. As there will always be a transcending or

conceivable Good beyond the good(s) of particular individuals, the

Agathon is ineffable and indefinable, and necessarily transcends the

spatial and temporal limits of finite powers of perception. - Iyer,

Raghavan N., ParaPolitics: Toward the City of Man. New York:

Oxford University Press, 1979, page #22.

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intelligible tool and/or puzzle for mankind to explore,

understand, and use. They did not conceive mankind as

having a “mission” from the gods, though the gods could

influence human fortunes for good or ill. To the extent that

the Greeks put humanity at the “center” of importance, they

worshipped its body (as in athletics and the Olympic Games)

and its mind (as in the sophistic and philosophical schools of

Athens).

The Cretan (Minoan) political system, a bureaucratic

monarchy most significant for its peacefulness, included no

evident slavery, standing military, or marked class

distinctions. Women appear to have been politically equal

with men. The Minoan culture was destroyed ca. 1400 BCE

by an invasion from Mycenæ. The Mycenæan culture, which

faded into the Greek “dark ages” within another three

centuries, denied women equality and did have slavery.

The “dark ages” lasted from 1100 to 800 BCE and came

to an end with the founding of the first Greek city-states. The

first Greek writing appears in about the 8th century BCE,

with the first dated writing in 600 BCE.

The later Hellenic era (600-300 BCE) - based as it was

on empirical investigation and inductive reasoning - was a

challenge to the older, tribal way of doing things. Previously

custom ( nomos) was the rule for behavior, and to follow

custom was dike, the path of justice. Disregard of custom

was hybris and was unacceptable and even dangerous

beyond its immediate implications.

As it became increasingly evident that social problems,

such as the reform of Athenian laws by Draco and then

Solon, could be solved by either an appeal to either relative

practicality or absolute standards, a growing controversy

arose concerning the relation of nomos to physis (nature or

the divine order). Foremost of the absolutists was

Pythagoras, who sought in number the beginning or arche of

things - the ordering principle or “one behind the many”. 57

Even a cursory glance around the contemporary

Western international community reveals that nowhere is

such a transcendent, metaphysical Agathon to be found.

57 MindWar, op. cit. , pages #157-9.

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True, the post-Enlightenment58 West pretends generally

to Christian morality, but in actuality this is merely a

ceremonial veneer: services, blessings, invocations, and

platitudes which have absolutely no force in implemented

public affairs. Every now and then the Roman Catholic

pope makes an appeal for some moral sanctimony, which

is popularly acclaimed and then immediately ignored.

E. PW-Era Status Quo

Today there are only two principal metaethical

systems influencing actual national operation: Judaism

in the state of Israel and Islam in the several nations

subordinating themselves to various interpretations of

this theology.

This accordingly makes both Israel and the Islamic

world “irrational” in Western eyes, hence mysteriously

threatening.

The United States resolves this in the case of Israel by

accepting and obeying it unquestioningly, an in the case

of Islam by ignoring it [among useful allies, such as Saudi

Arabia] or PW-attacking it [elsewhere].

Correspondingly both Israel and Islam regard the de

facto-atheistic West generally, and the United States

especially, as “godless” and decadent.

A curious “third theocracy” existed for most of the

20th Century in the form of ideological communism, or

more precisely the “denominations” of Marxism,

Marxism-Leninism, and Maoism. Each of these avowed a

“god” prior to and preemptive of ethical relativism: most

58 As specifically discussed here, the European “Enlightenment” (late

17th-18th Centuries) was an intellectual revolt against the church-

proclaimed metaethics of Christianity in favor of purely-utilitarian

reason: ethical relativism. However such judgments were still

reserved to sovereigns; thus murder is acceptable, even admirable if

prescribed by a state, but proscribed & punishable in the individual.

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generally the economic class stratification and warfare of

Marx & Engels. This “god”, which could only be obeyed,

not ignored or dethroned, is technically called dialectic

materialism in contrast to the dialectic idealism of

Georg Hegel, which posited a similar, albeit deistic “god-

dictated” social evolution in the “lives” of nation-states. 59

At this 2017 writing god-communism is no more:

discarded by Russia and its former European satellites ca.

1989 and corrupted into a cynical state-capitalism in

remnant-alcoves such as China and Vietnam.

F. MW-Era Status Post

This, then, is the tableau which PPB confronts when

considering the achievable necessity for the Agathon in

[para]political perfectionism:

1. Theistic States

In the case of Israel and Islamic nations/groups, a

supreme superstitions exist but are nowhere near the

purity and nobility of a true Agathon.

Before PPB can undertake to actualize kalokagathia

in these cases, it will be necessary to annihilate and

replace the existing monstrosity with a pure Agathon in

the same imagery. This task is assigned to MWB, whose

59 The inevitable, ominous apotheosis of dialectic idealism was the

Romantic deification of the state as realized in Italian Fascism and

German National Socialism. This completely submerged and

absorbed individual human life into the “living state”, which thereby

asserted an absolute right to strengthen and perpetuate itself: which

aspiration constituted its entire “morality”. In the non-communist

West the human alienation this inspired led to the post-World War II

rejection of Hegelian metaphysics generally, and the ascent of such

anti-ideologies as European Existentialism and the American Beat

Generation.

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PSYCONs can be used to accomplish this substitution

without the conscious awareness of affected humans.

2. Atheistic States

In the case of the materialist West, the task of

generating an Agathon again falls to MWB, but this time

its orientation and azimuth are significantly different:

The dormant, disdained “spirit of mankind” - Plato’s

recognition in the Republic that humanity “unchained

from the darkness of the cave” will aspire to the light of

Agathon. Once again this is not to be attempted at the

conscious, rational level of targeted humans, but

subconsciously through MWB’s PSYCONs. The pleasant

result will be a new perception of and insistence upon the

Agathon at all socioeconomic levels, eclipsing the cold,

dead numbness of the PW-era cultural climate.

3. External Harmonization

It is of course a relatively incidental but nonetheless

essential matter to coordinate such MWB projects so that

the Agathon as created in all of the above environments

not only fulfills the needs and controls the superstitions

or substitute-superstitions of the directly-affected human

groups, but also integrates smoothly and constructively

into the external international community. That

community will most likely not understand the localized

mechanism or the reasons for it, nor be susceptible to the

PSYCONs employed.

G. Agathon: Key to Kalokagathia

The importance of this step in PPB’s kalokagathia

project cannot be overemphasized. Indeed once the

Agathon is established and in force, the remaining

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Phases of the MW campaign rather fall easily into place

as though “magnetized”. Once the MWarrior understands

and applies the above principles and preparations, there

will be neither surprise nor mystery to this “waterfall”.

H. Pyramid of the Agathon

Indeed we’re not ready to leave the Agathon just yet.

As is doubtless clear from the above discussion, it’s an

essential principle. Everything depends upon it, which

means that it must be correctly perceived and

apprehended.

This further necessitates explaining it coherently and

meaningfully to humans who will both apply it at higher

levels of polis responsibility and be affected by it at lower

levels.

1. PW-Era Status Quo

Consider the ostensibly-simplistic example of the

Judæo-Christian God as utilized in a non-MW

environment:

At the highest, control level of the various

institutional churches and synagogues, God is identified

and represented as an abstraction beyond human

comprehension. As such it is not personified, nor is any

effort made to communicate with it. It is simply, and

only, posited to exist.

From this insistence religious policy-makers decide in

what ways it can be useful to them, and speak, write, and/

or act on its behalf accordingly. If Aquinas’ Divine Law

revelation is claimed, this is the level at which it will be

asserted as a policy lynchpin, as for instance Catholic

Papal “infallibility”.

Lower-tier clerics and executives are not permitted to

challenge these representations, on the grounds that they

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are not sufficiently intelligent, educated, or sophisticated

to understand, much less critique them. Or simply that

they are not sufficiently purified to receive Divine Law

revelations.

Also at progressively-lower levels, God is transformed

from an abstraction to a personification: an old man with

a white beard, a burning bush, a pillar of fire, or whatever

else serves control purposes. Family (Mary, Jesus, et al.),

a support staff (angels), and mischief-makers (Satan &

dæmons) are added where they may be encouragingly or

coercively useful.

Over the centuries a complete and versatile mythology

encompassing all of these is assembled, appropriated

from other religions, and modified to remain relevant and

effective as a control device among progressive human

cultures and generations. The overall result ranges from

an ever-more-abstract metaphysical ideology at the top to

an easy-to-understand comic book at the bottom. Within

this collective everyone gets what he needs, and what

keeps him docile and obedient.

2. MW-Era Status Post

With the MW Agathon it’s another matter entirely.

Instead of being a whimsical fantasy of convenience

which is pushed downward for purposes of control and

exploitation, approaching the Agathon begins at the most

elementary levels of human consciousness, thence is

progressively refined to ever-more-exacting elaborations,

until a final, perfect apprehension is attained.

3. The Pyramid60

60 Iyer, Raghavan, ParaPolitics. New York: Oxford University Press,

1979, page #48.

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If the reader is unused to his thoughts being dissected

with such terrifying exactitude, it is not surprising given

the habitual eikasia of conventional, PW-conditioned

humanity. With correlation to the “Thought Architecture”

analysis in MindWar, however, this bewildering diagram

becomes quite straightforward and intelligible. 61

a. Thought Architecture

As detailed in MindWar and retouched upon in

Chapter #2 of this book, human thought overall consists

of consciousness and subconsciousness, of which

the latter is by far the more active (95%) and influential.

In individual human experience, however, these are

not perceived as hard-and-fast separations; they blend

into one other without notice or concern. [Indeed they

are frequently difficult to distinguish outside of a

laboratory environment.]

b. Below the Base

When initially considering the Pyramid, note that

below it is “homeostasis”, which is the state of mind at

rest. [When this methodology is applied to a political

situation or object (such as a nation, culture, or group), it

is the existing state of affairs.]

Absent application of the Pyramid, conventional, PW-

level individuals or institutions know and undertake

nothing more than attempting to balance an arbitrary

standard of “good” (usually a superficial ideology) with

“beauty” (behavior at least somewhat responsive to it).

This is the balance, such as it is, that can be seen in all

PW-environment diplomacies, and which is supposedly,

if rarely actually, the PW-goal when the diplomacy fails.

61 MindWar, op. cit. , pages #81-5.

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c. Conscious Ascent

Now in the capacity of a PPB MWarrior rise to the

Pyramid of Agathon.

The left-side ascending-line is labeled “Dialectic of

Reason”. The term dialectic (ancient Greek διαλεκτική)

refers to the establishment of a philosophical truth by the

means of rigorous, cooperative discourse, whereby the

reconciliation of two or more perspectives yields a more

accurate one.

Therefore the left-side ascending line shows an

increasing resolution of conscious thought from Eikasia

(primitive impulse) to Pistis (ordinary active/reactive

sensations & decisions) to Dianoia (precise, logical,

reflection62), and finally [possibly, potentially] to Nœsis (intuition and apprehension [of the Agathon]).

Note that this entire progression rests upon a

“foundation” of will: that is, a deliberate effort at all

levels is required to actualize it.

d. Subconscious Ascent

The right-side ascending line addresses the

subconscious elements of the thought-experience.

It rests upon a base of eros, which refers to a sentient

being’s obsessive passion for the truth. [Ultimately this

stems from any such being’s bewilderment at its own

“unexplained” existence and compulsion to discover that

explanation.]

This desire initially results in random, generalized

images, identified here as eikone (“icons”), which, as they

grow stronger and more continuous, coalesce into zoa

(objects).

62 Cf. Chapter #1.

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As these sensations increase in composition and

clarity, they are further realized as built-up complexities

( mathemata).

Penultimately separate models form the basis for eide

(archetypes), which serves to distinguish the permanent

from the transitory: realization of the [Platonic] Forms,

the [Egyptian] neteru.

The entire right-side ascent dynamic is called the

“Dialectic of Revolution” in that it is goal-, not process-

driven [as contrasted to the conscious “Reason”].

e. Convergence

As the pyramid-shape illustrates, with each increase

in refinement, definition, and focus, the distance between

the conscious and the subconscious narrows; at the apex

they are completely unified into a single identity.

f. Transcent

There is also a central ascending line - the “Dialectic

of Transcendence” - which represents the intended

purpose of the entire thought: the apprehension of its

“governing” Agathon.

[For the time being the several “crossbars” of “Politics

of -” may be set aside, as they are better-clarified below.]

Admission to the Dialectic of Transcendence is not

casual or trivial; as shown at its point of entry, it requires

the key of logos.

The ancient Greeks saw the Objective Universe (OU)

divided into a non-conscious, automatic functioning

( physis) conceived and implemented by a divine

intelligence and consciousness ( logos).

The individual human intelligence ( nous) was capable

of coherent recognition and application of the logos; each

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human was thus a microcosm of the macrocosmic logos.

As Raghavan Iyer relates:

In classical Greece the term nomos had to do with

measure. As early as Sophocles, agraphos nomos, the

unwritten law, had divine sanction, and with the later

Stoics it was grounded in nature ( physis) as the

immanent logos.

Nous for Anaxagoras was both a cosmological

principle as the source of all motion, and an immanent

principle in all living beings.

Diogenes qualified the principle, which he

denominated ær-nous, by replacing mechanistic

interpretations with the view that its activity is

intelligent and forms the best possible kosmos, and it is

expressed in the operation of a principle of measure

among all things.

In the later writings of Plato kosmos nœtos, the

intelligible universe, is both produced and ordered by

nous, which is inherent in all men.

Plotinus drew the implication that nous is

transcendent as the cause of kosmos nœtos and is

immanent in human beings, each of whom is therefore

a kosmos nœtos.

The Stoics concluded that the human nous is a

manifestation of cosmic nous.

Nous represents a binding-together of human

minds as rays from one central source of cosmic

intelligence. 63

Thus as shown the logos enables the human

intelligent consciousness ( nous) to transcend the OU

( physis) by entering into that Dialectic leading to

apprehension of the Agathon.

63 ParaPolitics, op. cit. , pages #54-55.

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g. Apprehension

Significantly [and perhaps annoyingly!] the entire

Pyramid is not capstoned by the desired Agathon.

Instead that Grail glows like a star above the apex. Why?

Because while all three dialectics are progressive

refinements in their respective realms, an authentic

Agathon is not in any sense a built-up composite. It is a

neter-/Form-manifestation, hence is metaphysical.

What is accomplished by “ascending the Pyramid” is

the clearing-away of all impediments to beholding the

Agathon; it is an authentically divine ecstasy. Indeed for

a true Agathon it could not be otherwise.

If this all sounds a bit outré as a mission-statement

for a U.S. Army Branch, it must be remembered what a

formidable mission PPB has: to ascertain, articulate, and

implement the subject polis’ supreme guiding morality-

principle (= Agathon).

Moreover if it fails in this, the MW campaign must be

limited to only the continuum of a dynamic, constantly-

adjusting áristos. It will not enjoy the permanent and

transcendent stability that kalokagathia instils.

I. Kalokagathia ParaPolitics

Apprehension of an Agathon as identified to be ideal

for the supercontrol of a given political situation, while

the necessary first step, is obviously not going to

conclusively solve the problem.

For that PPB needs to first reconceptualize, then

methodically promulgate a new polis based upon that

Agathon.

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1. PW-Era Status Quo

The conventional sequel to PW invasion, destruction,

and occupation of a problem situation is styled “nation-

building”, frequently preceded by the methodical,

complete obliteration of the defeated governmental

structure.

The imposed replacement puppet government is

assembled from local collaborationists and/or obedient,

opportunistic exiles, and given a hastily-thrown-together

administration structure modeled on Western notions of

representative social-contract governments, habitually in

the American or British model.

The title “president”, with “prime minister” a close

second, has become ubiquitous to the point of slapstick in

such charades.

A veneer of legitimacy is sometimes added by the

staging of “popular elections” wherein, under the ever-

present fear of the occupier’s or puppet’s guns, the

masses are herded to cast ballots for one or two pre-

approved candidates. Such elections are routinely rigged,

and in the rare instance of an upstart result, the victor is

discarded by re-election, coup, or deportation.

It hardly needs observing that this is no way to

remedy post-PW devastation. Probably the most

compelling example is the rise of Nazi Germany in

eventual response to the national punishment,

exploitation, and hypocrisy inflicted by the Versailles

Treaty. Since then the catalogue of repeat-performances

has been unending, leading to the contemporary

international community’s omnipresent instability.

Recent examples include the 2013 military removal of

the post-revolutionary elected Egyptian President

Mohammed Morsi (sentenced to death in 2015 for

emphasis) and the 2014 [unconstitutional] parliamentary

dismissal of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanuyovch for

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favoring economic ties closer to Russia than the

European Union.

With no viable PW-era reform on the horizon, the 21st

Century has seen a worldwide surge in population

instability characterized by disinterest in government

participation, material/economic rather than ideological

individual motivations, and increasing migration to

anywhere that promises greater such opportunities and

advantages.

“Patriotism” is increasingly disdained by political

dissidents as anachronistic propaganda for the PW-

enslavement of the stupid and naïve.

2. MW-Era Status Post

It would be too much to expect for MW to

miraculously reform a planet gripped in PW-convulsion.

What can be commenced are incremental cures.

Directly and immediately these benefit the afflicted local

humans; possibly they also serve as example for others to

emulate in whole or part, even absent the impetus of a

collapse in the existing structure.

Following on from the above discussion of the

Agathon, it should be immediately obvious that PPB’s

approach to polis-initiation has absolutely nothing in

common with PW heavy-handedness.

From the beginning PPB teams meld with the local

populace at all social, economic, ethnic, and cultural

levels. It is PPB’s initial function to expose this collective

to the previously-apprehended Agathon, in graduated

metaphors enabling all to understand and recognize it at

their level of intelligence, education, and life-discretion.

At this stage, which generally corresponds to MW

campaign Phase 2, MWB is a constant, omnipresent,

invisible presence through application of a tailored

PSYCON mix blanketing the entire geographic area.

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The result of this is not some kind of sinister

“brainwashing” after the fashion of PW-era “re-

education” torture, but simply a general stimulation of

individual energy, cognitive awareness, and amicable

cooperation.

As detailed in MindWar, the MWB PSYCONs operate

predominantly at the subconscious level; in effect they

serve to jump-start the “right side” of the Agathon

Pyramid - which, with its 95% Thought Architecture

presence, practically enables the Pyramid’s rational “left

side” to harmonize near-effortlessly.

Once again such a rosy picture is not hyperbolic

fantasy. It is based upon the very real, very scientific, and

very demonstrable MW principles introduced and

substantiated herein and in MindWar; and wherever

actualized will quickly be validated by results. All that is

required is the vision and the will to do it.

And remember that MW is not a “zero-sum game”; if

it is not attempted, the PW alternative will continue to fill

the vacuum.

3. ParaPolitics Components

Designing and implementing the Agathon-inspired

polis requires the identification and tailoring of several

political factors and functions, collectively entitled

“ParaPolitics” by Dr. Raghavan Iyer, who extensively an

exhaustively described them in his 1979 book of that title.

Once again these are most easily seen and correlated

in diagram:64

64 ParaPolitics, op. cit. , page #26. The hexagram is employed simply

to interrelate the named concepts, and does not connote any

connection with the Hebraic “star of David”.

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a. 2D>3D>>4D

FindFar is of course a printed book limited to two-

dimensional image representations. While in the not-

distant future it will doubtless be commonplace for books

to conveniently generate 3D holographics when readers

turn to those pages, FindFar must still tax your

imagination for such expansion here.

So this diagram is not really a triangle within a

hexagram within a circle. It is a pyramid within a

hexagon within a sphere. 65

The hexagon is omnirotational about the pyramid

(which, while 3D, rests stably upon its base as previously

described).

The external sphere is similarly omnireferential from

the perspectives of the pyramid and hexagon.

Think, therefore, of a three-layered mobile sculpture.

Actually this 3D sculpture is further in 4D motion as

discussed in Chapter #2, but one headache at a time.

b. Agathon Pyramid: The Core

At the center of the diagram is the Agathon Pyramid,

resting on its conscious (will) and subconscious ( eros)

bases. Together they energize the logos, activating the

ParaPolitics manifestations of Platonic vision ( nœsis) and

Machiavellian virtu, revealing the governing Agathon,

whose neter/Form then radiates outward throughout all

of the diagram’s constituent elements.

65 Topologists will be quick to point out that a hexagon has many

more than six internal extensions. Touché. The point to be taken with

this analogy is that the various labelings of the 2D hexagram lines

are all equally accessible to/influential upon the entire ParaPolitical

dynamic; they are not “hierarchical” or sequential.

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c. Types of Politics

ParaPolitics embraces six specialized types or

expressions of political thinking, expression, and action,

increasing in complexity and nuance as they appear

higher on the Pyramid of Agathon.

At the base of the Pyramid is the quasi-instinctive

Politics of Self-Preservation. Here are found all

measures sought and taken by a sentient being to protect

and continue its existence: the “culture of the caveman”,

which is “political” only because of the realization of

“safety in numbers”.

Next higher - that is to say present and emphasized in

political entities - are Power and Stability: the

characteristics of a tribe, city-state, or nation-state. Like

Self-Preservation, these qualities are generally considered

to be essential, not optional.

Neither is inherently altruistic or admirable: Power is

exercised by projecting the values of the polis beyond its

populace and borders through means ranging from

propaganda to armed force. Stability of the polis is sought

by reinforcing education and indoctrination of the

citizenry, and if necessary more drastically by repression

and punishment.

Next come what amount to options and luxuries:

Reason and Welfare. It is at this level of civilization

that, with basic needs of survival ensured, cultures can

engage is some flexibility, seeking more satisfaction in

various social structures, customs, and conveniences.

A standard of living above that of mere survival also

permits luxuries for some or all persons, as well as a

measure of provision for those unable to completely take

care of themselves.

These categories of politics more-or-less complete

what the world regards as the “modern state”. It is

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similarly among these variables that PW cooperation and

confrontation occur.

Along the ascent of consciousness, as depicted on the

Pyramid, they involve only the lesser-intellectual

invocations of Eikasia and Pistis.

Approaching the apex are the still-rational Politics of

Perfectibility, characterized by Dianoia, and finally the

Politics of Transcendence, enabled through Nœsis.

These last two are not employed in PW interactions, but

are both essential in MW.

As the hexagram/gon implies, all of these types of

politics [except Transcendence] can be mixed and

weighted in the design of an ideal polis.

In a MW campaign prudently or necessarily limited to

an áristos resolution, only combinations of the functions

of Power, Stability, Reason, and Welfare are developed,

with especial consideration given to moderating the first

two.

Perfectibility becomes an option in a complete

kalokagathia design, insofar as it reflects an intentional

application of the identified Agathon.

d. Internal Stresses & External Pressures

The surrounding circle/sphere illustrates externalities

constantly seeking to repress and constrain the polis, or

to stimulate its propensity and tendency to advertise,

export, and expand itself.

Such forces and influences can range from the

ideological (the seeking of reassurance and validation

from alliances and partners) to debate, tension, or

conflict with those who deny such consolation.

The optimal polis will aspire to anticipate and manage

all such uncertainties with flexibility, tolerance, and

empathy.

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e. 4D Dynamic

PW-era “regime changes” or “nation building” is

habitually a 3D “makeover”. Once such changes have

been forced into place, their continuation is assumed to

be the responsibility of the new governmental structure

to sustain itself; if not, PW is reapplied as endlessly as the

foreign power deems necessary to its interests and

priorities.

MW strategists are not permitted this cavalier

sloppiness. Whatever they devise, whether at the levels of

áristos or kalokagathia, must be engineered for

operation in a 4D dynamic environment, both internally

and externally.

What this means is that the FF projections are

continued throughout the polis-configuration process,

providing the initial design with the flexibility and

resources it will need to continue to survive and prosper,

harmoniously and rewardingly with its neighbors and

partners abroad.

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Chapter 5: Complications

[The bankrupt Duchy of Grand Fenwick66 declared

war on the United States in order to lose and be

reconstructed. Its boatload of soldiers returns ...]

Grand Duchess Gloriana: How did the war go?

Tully Bascombe: Well, Your Grace, there’s been a

slight change of plan. We sort of won.

Prime Minister Mountjoy: You sort of what?

- The Mouse That Roared (1959)

Snakes. Why’d it have to be snakes?

- Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

A. Snakes!

MindWar is designed to function flawlessly and

seamlessly when introduced and activated in a non-

destabilized environment.

In such a setting it can establish and maintain, with

minimal resources, expense, and effort, a serene and

successful outlook as FF-projected and adjusted

accordingly by MW TriForce team assets.

In the 21st-Century world as presented by PW,

however, MW does not have this luxury. When and where

activated, it can expect to arrive in a PW mess

approaching meltdown. [Anything short of that will

66 http://ib.frath.net/w/Grand_Fenwick

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probably be PW-gnawed until it is undeniably a complete

failure.]

Additionally in such circumstances MW will probably

not have the luxury of a “leisurely calendar”. National and

regional crises are often rushing towards a mega-crisis,

such as an explosion into a much more widespread PW.

So MW must not only stabilize the situation, but do so

under the pressure of a ticking clock.

What are some of the possible impediments, and how

could MW reduce or eliminate them?

B. PW Profitability

1. Extent

As unpalatable as it may be to contemplate, PW stays

in business because it is business - enormously,

extremely profitably so. Indeed it is not hard to argue that

“war profiteering” is the primary reason for the

promulgation and continuation of PWs worldwide,

especially by nations (such as the United States, Israel,

Russia, China, and much if industrialized Europe) with

substantial munitions industries. Just how much does

this canary actually weigh?

U.S. weapons exporters lead the world in profits from

the booming military arms and equipment business, driven

by rising tensions and conflict around the world, according

to a new report from London-based analysts.

The annual study by IHS Inc. - which looks at military

markets in 65 nations, excluding small arms, munitions, and

surveillance programs - finds that the United States is

behind one-third of all equipment and weapons exports

worldwide.

This is no small amount: In 2014 global “defense” trade

surpassed $64.4 billion, the report finds.

“Defense trade rose by a landmark 13.4 percent over the

past year,” said Ben Moores, senior defense analyst at IHS

Aerospace, Defense and Security, in a press statement. “This

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record figure has been driven by unparalleled demand from

the emerging economies for military aircraft and an

escalation of regional tensions in the Middle East and Asia

Pacific.”

The U.S. further is the top profiteer from rising conflict

across the Middle East, accounting for $8.4 billion in exports

to this region in 2014, compared to $6 billion the previous

year ... 67

The United States is by no means the sole addict to

this particular economic opiate. The IHS report

continues:

The second tier of exporters to the Middle East is led by

the United Kingdom with US$1.9 billion, the Russian

Federation with US$1.5 billion, France with US$1.3 billion

and Germany with US$1 billion. 68

MW, by contrast, utilizes no PW weaponry at all,

either directly used by the United States PW military

forces and their covert civilian adjuncts (Central

Intelligence Agency, private paramilitary contractors) or

indirectly by sales or gifts to PW allies and surrogates.

2. Redirection

Conventional proposals to eliminate war-profiteerism

generally default to either socialist nationalization of such

industries, eliminating private/corporate/shareholder

enrichment, or surrender and subordination of national

67 Lazare, Sarah, “U.S. Weapons Exporters Lead World in War

Profiteering”, Common Dreams, March 9, 2015.

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/09/us-weapons-

exporters-lead-world-war-profiteering

68 “Saudi Arabia replaces India as largest defence market for US”,

IHS Jane’s 360, March 9, 2015.

http://www.janes.com/article/49809/saudi-arabia-replaces-india-

as-largest-defence-market-for-us

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PW capabilities to a supranational body such as the

United Nations. Both options are prima facie unrealistic.

The MW solution, which may be considered an

admittedly cynical, yet nonetheless effective application

of áristos, proposes to allow the manufacture, sale, and

export of munitions to continue, but to discourage its

actual use in favor of mere display and spectacle.

The model for this is the 1947-1991 Cold War between

the United States and the Soviet Union. Possession of

nuclear arsenals and intercontinental delivery systems

more than sufficient to annihilate one another in an

[inevitably simultaneous] launch made [hot] PW

impossible; the quaint if darkly-apt euphemism was

“MAD” (Mutually-Assured Destruction), alternately the

“balance of terror”. 69

Instead of the Cold War’s eliminating the ostensibly-

unusable conventional weapons industries of both

superpowers, these paradoxically expanded and also

increased production.

Both countries’ populations were constantly alarmed

by allegations of “missile gaps” [at the time of the

Kennedy/Nixon Presidential campaign] or claimed

deficiencies in conventional arms so extreme as to

possibly embolden the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact

allies to venture a conventional PW against the United

States and NATO, gambling that the conventionally-

outmatched West would ultimately not dare the suicidal

step of resorting to nuclear weapons, even “battlefield”.

This scenario began to gain serious Western

credibility during the Carter Administration (1977-80)

and was seized upon by the successor Reagan

Administration (1981-8) as the centerpiece of its “Evil

Empire” propaganda.

69 In the old sense of just being really, really scared - not the 21st-

Century “Communism!”-replacement monster-under-the-bed of

“Terrorism!”.

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The result was a surge in U.S./NATO conventional

armament and deployment which the already-strained

Soviet Union found itself economically unable to match,

even with maximum extractions from its Warsaw Pact

satellites. Hence the collapse of the Eastern economy and

Western Cold War “victory” at the end of that decade.

An interesting “sideshow” of this sinister circus was

the United States’ invention of the “neutron bomb” in

1977. More precisely titled the “Enhanced Radiation

Warhead” (ERW), this was a nuclear weapon which

emitted a life- but not property-destroying burst of

neutron radiation. The idea was that, fitted to battlefield-

level missiles such as the Corporal and Sergeant, it could

stop a Warsaw Pact armored offensive [literally] “dead in

its tracks” without contaminating any territory or

destroying any structures.

Suddenly it appeared that the “nuclear threshold”

could be crossed tactically without triggering an

“ordinary” thermonuclear holocaust.

The East was obviously not pleased at this prospect,

and argued furiously against it both diplomatically and

publicly.

President Carter finally decided that the ERW would

be produced and deployed only if at least two other

NATO member-nations would agree to host such

missiles. West Germany agreed if a second could be

found. Turkey secretly became that second, but Carter

chose not to publicize this and ERW faded away as a Cold

War crisis. 70

Meanwhile the brandishing of weaponry was a

testosteronic regularity, from May Day parades in

Moscow to ceaseless “war games” in Western Europe. At

sea both blocs showed off their latest nuclear submarines

70 The complete story of this curious episode may be studied in the

author’s book The Neutron Bomb. San Francisco: Barony of

Rachane, 2016.

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and hi-tech surface ships, while ever-more-advanced

aircraft and military-satellite launches culminated in

extraordinarily-expensive missile-defense concepts [such

as the United States’ “Safeguard”] and President Reagan’s

LucasFilm-inspired “Star Wars” satellite-warfare

technology.

Not to stray from the point here, many of these

exoticities were never deployed or even built beyond the

experimental stage, but as far as they went, they cost

taxpayers substantial amounts of money, which lined the

pockets of military, naval, and ærospace contractors.

The intercontinental ballistic missile standoff between

the United States and post-USSR Russian Federation

remains as formidable as ever during the Cold War,

opening the door to a “Cold War II” with renewed

munitions-profiteer windfalls.

This is hardly an ideal áristos, since the original peril

of an accidental ICBM-triggering remains. That said, this

peril has never disappeared, even after the end of Cold

War I.

The present orgy of sales and use of conventional

arms throughout the Middle East could be curtailed in

favor of Cold War II braggadocio: the continued flow of

money without the flow of blood.

If there is a downside to this caustically bottom-

feeding áristos, it is that with full strategic attention once

again fixated on a renewed “balance of terror”, there is

theoretically that much more chance of a fatally “nervous

mistake”, such as the 1962 “Cuban Missile Crisis” came

perilously close to being.

Cold War II, if inaugurated, must take care to indulge

flamboyant posturing and pretentiousness - but nowhere

near the push-button.

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C. Politics of Stability

1. “War is Peace”

In addition to a PW- habitué nation’s financial-

profiteering motives, an ongoing PW serves to increase

public docility and obedience by emotionally uniting the

masses against a proclaimed foreign enemy threat.

Beyond this it inspires voluntary work and sacrifice as an

expression and passionate release of “patriotism”. In

1984 George Orwell glacially but definitively summarized

this rationale thus:

War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary

destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically

acceptable way. In principle it would be quite simple to waste

the surplus labour of the world by building temples and

pyramids, by digging holes and filling them up again, or even

by producing vast quantities of goods and then setting fire to

them. But this would provide only the economic and not the

emotional basis for a hierarchical society. What is concerned

here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is

unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but

the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party

member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even

intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that

he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose

prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic

triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have

the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter

whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive

victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is

going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war

should exist. 71

In the Pyramid of Agathon and ParaPolitics

schematics, this appears as the “Politics of Stability”, the

inward-coercive counterforce to the outward-aggressive

71 “War is Peace”, 1984, op. cit., 1949, page #158.

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“Politics of Power”. Together they serve as the state’s

ultimate binding mechanism.

In Oliver Stone’s reflection upon the assassination of

President John Kennedy, a retired “Black Ops” officer

observes indifferently to the New Orleans District

Attorney:

The organizing principle of any society, Mr. Garrison, is

for war. The authority of the state over its people resides in

its war powers.

Kennedy wanted to end the Cold War in his second term.

He wanted to call off the Moon race and cooperate with

the Soviets.

He signed a treaty to ban nuclear testing.

He refused to invade Cuba in 1962.

He set out to withdraw from Vietnam.

But all that ended on the 22nd of November, 1963. 72

2. Rehab

As with PW-profiteering, PW-passion is so deeply

integrated into and characteristic of the contemporary

nation-state that it cannot be directly removed.

Indeed any obvious effort to do so would be

interpreted by the state as a dangerous threat tantamount

72 The unidentified officer “X” in Stone’s JFK was in fact Colonel L.

Fletcher Prouty (USAF-Ret.), a close friend of the author who had

served as Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff

during the Kennedy Administration. In a July 2, 1995 letter to the

author, Prouty identified his immediate superior, Major General

Edward Lansdale, as the architect and executor of the assassination:

“He had hundreds of trained and skilled men [from Operation

MONGOOSE] whom he could use to flesh out the cover story that the

true decision-makers had to have to protect the real hit team, and

create the three decades of cover story that has embarrassed

American citizens since that date. Without such a cover story the

murder and resultant coup d’etat could not have been achieved so

effectively. JFK would not give him that [South Vietnam]

Ambassadorship for which he would have killed. What else could he

do?”

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to treason, provoking a response similar to that visited

upon J.F.K.

Instead MW must seek not to “cold turkey” national

PW-addiction, but rather to shift it to a less-murderous

fixation.

Some smaller nations, fortunate not to be burdened

with superpower-political self-images, indeed have

successfully crafted a raison d’état for themselves on

some other basis.

Switzerland justifies itself as a bastion of international

financial security, and also as sponsor of independent

humanitarian activities such as the Red Cross.

Various Scandinavian countries have sought to be

havens for other nations’ political refugees.

Even some historic lands such as Egypt and Greece,

despite too-close-for-comfort PW-surrounds, prefer to

market themselves as tourist attractions.

In the case of the PW-hooked superpowers, such a

cure is not as unrealistic or elusive as it might seem at

first glance.

The exemplar here happens to be China, perhaps

surprisingly given its Cold War persona as a Maoist

monastery more doctrinaire than even its Stalinist model

across the Great Wall. Today it shows little interest in any

PW-projection beyond what it regards as its millennia-

old turf, preferring adventures in finance, technology,

manufacturing [including for export], and cultural chic.

The U.S. Obama Administration, casting about for a

scarecrow to replace the by-now-motheaten “Terrorism!”,

attempted to promote a sort of “neo-China-containment”

Pacific Rim militarization, unfortunately regarded by

both China and America as comically-boring: Even a cold

war requires the other party to be interested, and China’s

actual interest in the United States is more towards

investment and real estate ownership.

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In annoyance Obama turned back to Russia, hoping

that the latter’s activities in the Crimea and Ukraine

might be an excuse for neo-NATOism. Once again Russia

doesn’t seem to be particularly interested, with Vladimir

Putin declining to don Darth Vader’s costume for a

lightsaber duel with either Luke Obama or Yoda Trump.

So, since as of early 2017 both Eastasia and Eurasia

aren’t being PW-cooperative, the United States is reduced

to still trying to pump more air into the disintegrating tire

of “Terrorism!”.

Certainly decades of Middle East economic

strangulation, bombing, invasion, and occupation have

generated more than a few vengeful expatiates, but

somehow it just isn’t as nightmarifying as the old E-ticket

ride of imminent nuclear annihilation.

So in the case of the United States, this melodrama

has yet to play out - perhaps, if all monster-hunts fail,

towards a merchandising alternative as salutary as our

own tourism. There is, after all, plenty to see and enjoy

throughout all fifty states and the Beltway cage. We really

don’t need to keep tying up Sweet Sue:

Salty Sam was tryin’ to stuff Sweet Sue in a burlap sack, he said

“If you don’t give me the deed to your ranch, I’m gonna throw you

on the railroad tracks!”

And then he grabbed her (and then?)

He tied her up (and then?)

He threw her on the railroad tracks (and then?)

A train started comin’ (and then, and THEN?)

- And then along came Jones:

Tall, thin Jones,

Slow-walkin’ Jones,

Slow-talkin’ Jones,

Along came long, lean, lanky Jones. 73

73 The Coasters, “Along Came Jones”, 1959.

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D. Revolution

1. A Party in Progress

When one nation decides to PW-insert itself into the

affairs of another, the general assumption is that there

will be a government presently in place to be subjugated

or replaced with fresh puppetry.

However some situations of instability may not

involve only actions between predefined national actors,

but may extend to structural breakdown within one or

more of the object nations: factional infighting or more

comprehensive nationwide revolutionary efforts.

On the ParaPolitics diagram this is recognized as the

centrifugal “Dialectic of Revolution”. It is massively

destabilizing, often to the point of rendering any outside

intervention impotent, or at best of peripheral influence.

One need only look back to the major such revolutions of

history - the American, French, English, and Russian to

cite the most famous - and of course to innumerable less

well-known examples.

By their very nature, moreover, revolutions are non-

standardized:

- They may be more or less bloodless, or quite the

other extreme.

- They may be widespread mobilizations or close-held

coups d’état.

- They may or may not be ideology- or religion-based.

- They may be over in hours or drag on for years.

- They may be purely the instigation of the national

populace, or the surrogates of foreign antagonists.

And frequently various combinations of the above.

PW intervention in such situations is typically unable

to offer anything but an even more brutal combative

presence, the presumption being to suppress the existing

infighting by sheer weight of superior force. The

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American Revolution saw attempted intervention by both

Britain and France, and the Russian Revolution by a

number of capitalist and monarchist nations unified in

their fear of the communist “germ”. At this writing Syria

continues to be torn apart by internal factions, regional

movements, and external national entities such as Russia,

America, Iran, and Turkey.

Even should a given revolution be successful, as in the

example of the creation of the Islamic State from

conquered portions of Syria and Iraq, there remains the

question of internationally-recognized legitimacy.

Again history provides many instances of relatively

quick recognition [as in the case of the United States] as

well as reluctant, grudging acceptance [as with the Soviet

Union and the People’s Republic of China]. Sometimes it

is only the appearance of a perceived greater threat, such

as Nazi Germany in the 1930s, that brings “strange

bedfellows” at least temporarily together in formal

recognition presaging alliance: The once-pernicious

Stalin suddenly became affable “Uncle Joe”.

2. Crashing the Party

a. Status Quo Ante

When faced with a revolutionary situation, MW’s first

recourse is a detailed investigation into the causes which

gave rise to it - not the dramatics of the present

symptoms.

This is in effect 4D FF “in reverse”, going back

through time in search of a previous stability if any.

The logical consequence of this is to ascertain whether

it is in any way possible to “roll back” the present to the

previous - and if not, why not.

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In such an analysis the overall present is also broken

down into as many parts as may be material and

identifiable.

b. Retubing Toothpaste?

Establishing a clear and accurate picture of the status

quo ante is one thing; returning a current destabilization

to it is quite another.

What may seem to some - especially those most

favored of it - as a “golden age” is rather unlikely to be

that for the revolutionaries. In all likelihood the irritants

that inspired the revolution were already there, just

suppressed and not yet raised to the boiling-point.

Hence MW is not so naïve as to attempt a return to

the past. What the FD establishes is an understanding of

the revolutionary forces at work, not an áristos, much

less kalokagathia. One or the other of these prescriptions

will require FF and the Agathon/ParaPolitics exercises

described in the preceding chapter.

c. Conflicted Drives

Once social forces have become strong enough to

spark a revolution, the fixation of the revolutionaries is

directly and immediately the catalyst of its success. While

there may be moral and ideological values at play, such as

redistribution of land-ownership or the institution of a

preferred theocracy, these remain to be argued-out once

the old order is eliminated.

A true revolution is not a statement of reform or

replacement of existing institutions or officialdom. It is

an enraged statement of total annihilation of the existing

order, on the presumption that it is utterly beyond reform

or redemption; nothing of it must survive.

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It is thus that revolutions generate a kinetic passion

which, while extent, is nigh unstoppable: a runaway train.

MW has little alternative but to wait until this frenzy

has run its course, by either success or failure.

The following example, fully half a century prior to the

Russian Revolution, serves as a chilling illustration of

these cataclysms:

d. Dæmonic Possession

The embrace of revolutionary fervor to the utter

eclipse of every other emotion or value was seen and

enunciated most incisively in the anarchistic-conspiracy

preludes to the 1917 Russian Revolution, by an obsessed

visionary, Sergey Genadievich Nechayev. Unsurprisingly

his was an unwelcome voice in Czarist Russia, and he

died in prison in 1882 at the young age of 35 - but not

before he had penned his Revolutionary Catechism in

1869. 74 This remarkable document bears careful attention

of all who would seek to either initiate or forestall

political revolutions:

The Revolutionary Catechism

Duties of the Revolutionary toward Himself

1. The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal

interests, no business affairs, no emotions, no

attachments, no property, and no name. Everything in

him is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the

single passion for revolution.

2. The revolutionary knows that in the very depths of his

being, not only in words but also in deeds, he has broken

all the bonds which tie him to the social order and the

civilized world with all its laws, moralities, and customs,

74 Already a legend during his short lifetime, Nechayev was portrayed

in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1872 novel Dæmons (also known as The

Possessed).

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and with all its generally accepted conventions. He is

their implacable enemy, and if he continues to live with

them it is only in order to destroy them more speedily.

3. The revolutionary despises all doctrines and refuses to

accept the mundane sciences, leaving them for future

generations. He knows only one science: the science of

destruction. For this reason, but only for this reason, he

will study mechanics, physics, chemistry, and perhaps

medicine. But all day and all night he studies the vital

science of human beings, their characteristics and

circumstances, and all the phenomena of the present

social order. The object is perpetually the same: the

surest and quickest way of destroying the whole filthy

order.

4. The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises

and hates the existing social morality in all its

manifestations. For him, morality is everything which

contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral

and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

5. The revolutionary is a dedicated man, merciless toward

the State and toward the educated classes; and he can

expect no mercy from them. Between him and them

there exists, declared or concealed, a relentless and

irreconcilable war to the death. He must accustom

himself to torture.

6. Tyrannical toward himself, he must be tyrannical toward

others. All the gentle and enervating sentiments of

kinship, love, friendship, gratitude, and even honor,

must be suppressed in him and give place to the cold and

single-minded passion for revolution. For him, there

exists only one pleasure, on consolation, one reward, one

satisfaction – the success of the revolution. Night and

day he must have but one thought, one aim – merciless

destruction. Striving cold-bloodedly and indefatigably

toward this end, he must be prepared to destroy himself

and to destroy with his own hands everything that stands

in the path of the revolution.

7. The nature of the true revolutionary excludes all

sentimentality, romanticism, infatuation, and exaltation.

All private hatred and revenge must also be excluded.

Revolutionary passion, practiced at every moment of the

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day until it becomes a habit, is to be employed with cold

calculation. At all times, and in all places, the

revolutionary must obey not his personal impulses, but

only those which serve the cause of the revolution.

Relations of the Revolutionary toward his Comrades

8. The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment,

except for those who have proved by their actions that

they, like him, are dedicated to revolution. The degree of

friendship, devotion and obligation toward such a

comrade is determined solely by the degree of his

usefulness to the cause of total revolutionary

destruction.

9. It is superfluous to speak of solidarity among

revolutionaries. The whole strength of revolutionary

work lies in this. Comrades who possess the same

revolutionary passion and understanding should, as

much as possible, deliberate all important matters

together and come to unanimous conclusions. When the

plan is finally decided upon, then the revolutionary must

rely solely on himself. In carrying out acts of destruction,

each one should act alone, never running to another for

advice and assistance, except when these are necessary

for the furtherance of the plan.

10. All revolutionaries should have under them second- or

third-degree revolutionaries – i.e., comrades who are not

completely initiated. these should be regarded as part of

the common revolutionary capital placed at his disposal.

This capital should, of course, be spent as economically

as possible in order to derive from it the greatest possible

profit. The real revolutionary should regard himself as

capital consecrated to the triumph of the revolution;

however, he may not personally and alone dispose of

that capital without the unanimous consent of the fully

initiated comrades.

11. When a comrade is in danger and the question arises

whether he should be saved or not saved, the decision

must not be arrived at on the basis of sentiment, but

solely in the interests of the revolutionary cause.

Therefore, it is necessary to weigh carefully the

usefulness of the comrade against the expenditure of

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revolutionary forces necessary to save him, and the

decision must be made accordingly.

Relations of the Revolutionary toward Society

12. The new member, having given proof of his loyalty not

by words but by deeds, can be received into the society

only by the unanimous agreement of all the members.

13. The revolutionary enters the world of the State, of the

privileged classes, of the so-called civilization, and he

lives in this world only for the purpose of bringing about

its speedy and total destruction. He is not a

revolutionary if he has any sympathy for this world. He

should not hesitate to destroy any position, any place, or

any man in this world. He must hate everyone and

everything in it with an equal hatred. All the worse for

him if he has any relations with parents, friends, or

lovers; he is no longer a revolutionary if he is swayed by

these relationships.

14. Aiming at implacable revolution, the revolutionary may

and frequently must live within society will pretending to

be completely different from what he really is, for he

must penetrate everywhere, into all the higher and

middle-classes, into the houses of commerce, the

churches, and the palaces of the aristocracy, and into the

worlds of the bureaucracy and literature and the

military, and also into the Third Division and the Winter

Palace of the Czar.

15. This filthy social order can be split up into several

categories. The first category comprises those who must

be condemned to death without delay. Comrades should

compile a list of those to be condemned according to the

relative gravity of their crimes; and the executions

should be carried out according to the prepared order.

16. When a list of those who are condemned is made, and

the order of execution is prepared, no private sense of

outrage should be considered, nor is it necessary to pay

attention to the hatred provoked by these people among

the comrades or the people. Hatred and the sense of

outrage may even be useful insofar as they incite the

masses to revolt. It is necessary to be guided only by the

relative usefulness of these executions for the sake of

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revolution. Above all, those who are especially inimical

to the revolutionary organization must be destroyed;

their violent and sudden deaths will produce the utmost

panic in the government, depriving it of its will to action

by removing the cleverest and most energetic supporters.

17. The second group comprises those who will be spared for

the time being in order that, by a series of monstrous

acts, they may drive the people into inevitable revolt.

18. The third category consists of a great many brutes in

high positions, distinguished neither by their cleverness

nor their energy, while enjoying riches, influence, power,

and high positions by virtue of their rank. These must be

exploited in every possible way; they must be implicated

and embroiled in our affairs, their dirty secrets must be

ferreted out, and they must be transformed into slaves.

Their power, influence, and connections, their wealth

and their energy, will form an inexhaustible treasure and

a precious help in all our undertakings.

19. The fourth category comprises ambitious office-holders

and liberals of various shades of opinion. The

revolutionary must pretend to collaborate with them,

blindly following them, while at the same time, prying

out their secrets until they are completely in his power.

They must be so compromised that there is no way out

for them, and then they can be used to create disorder in

the State.

20. The fifth category consists of those doctrinaires,

conspirators, and revolutionists who cut a great figure on

paper or in their cliques. They must be constantly driven

on to make compromising declarations: as a result, the

majority of them will be destroyed, while a minority will

become genuine revolutionaries.

21. The sixth category is especially important: women. They

can be divided into three main groups. First, those

frivolous, thoughtless, and vapid women, whom we shall

use as we use the third and fourth category of men.

Second, women who are ardent, capable, and devoted,

but whom do not belong to us because they have not yet

achieved a passionless and austere revolutionary

understanding; these must be used like the men of the

fifth category. Finally, there are the women who are

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completely on our side – i.e., those who are wholly

dedicated and who have accepted our program in its

entirety. We should regard these women as the most

valuable or our treasures; without their help, we would

never succeed.

Attitude of the Society toward the People

22. The Society has no aim other than the complete

liberation and happiness of the masses – i.e., of the

people who live by manual labor. Convinced that their

emancipation and the achievement of this happiness can

only come about as a result of an all-destroying popular

revolt, the Society will use all its resources and energy

toward increasing and intensifying the evils and miseries

of the people until at last their patience is exhausted and

they are driven to a general uprising.

23. By a revolution, the Society does not mean an orderly

revolt according to the classic western model – a revolt

which always stops short of attacking the rights of

property and the traditional social systems of so-called

civilization and morality. Until now, such a revolution

has always limited itself to the overthrow of one political

form in order to replace it by another, thereby

attempting to bring about a so-called revolutionary state.

The only form of revolution beneficial to the people is

one which destroys the entire State to the roots and

exterminated all the state traditions, institutions, and

classes in Russia.

24. With this end in view, the Society therefore refuses to

impose any new organization from above. Any future

organization will doubtless work its way through the

movement and life of the people; but this is a matter for

future generations to decide. Our task is terrible, total,

universal, and merciless destruction.

25. Therefore, in drawing closer to the people, we must

above all make common cause with those elements of the

masses which, since the foundation of the state of

Muscovy, have never ceased to protest, not only in words

but in deeds, against everything directly or indirectly

connected with the state: against the nobility, the

bureaucracy, the clergy, the traders, and the parasitic

kulaks. We must unite with the adventurous tribes of

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brigands, who are the only genuine revolutionaries in

Russia.

26. To weld the people into one single unconquerable and

all-destructive force – this is our aim, our conspiracy,

and our task.

e. Occasione

In the very apocalypse of revolution lies its

redemption. In the wake of its triumph it leaves both a

complete political vacuum and the absence of an agenda

to fill it.

The Russian Revolution was neither begun nor

accomplished by the Communists; Lenin emerged as the

enduring successor only after an interregnum of

confusion and indecision: Kerensky’s futile ballet of

nostalgic constitutionalism.

The French Revolution was followed by the Terror,

ironically subsiding with the ascendancy of an emperor,

Napoleon Bonaparte, in place of the beheaded King Louis

XVI.

The fledgling United States fared little better: Years of

argument following the victory over the British at

Yorktown produced in 1781 the Articles of Confederation

and Perpetual Union, which “perpetuity” managed less

than a decade before replacement by the Constitution.

Even then, in another sixty years, the “more perfect

union” was ripped asunder by the Civil War.

The message for MW is clear: The immediate post-

revolutionary vacuum is Machiavelli’s occasione: the

ideal opportunity for the presentation, acceptance, and

promulgation of a previously and carefully devised

kalokagathia, or at least áristos to replace chaos with

civitas.

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E. Identity & Legitimacy

1. “Denn die Todten Reiten Schnell” 75

Presumably in some blissfully-remote Shangri-la of

cartographic lamas, the nations of Planet Earth are as

defined and pedigreed as they appear on a painted globe.

Down in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, however, this

is scarcely the case. National borders change through

wars or factional fiat [as with Russia’s 2014 re-

acquisition of the Crimea].

Artificial countries are established by departing

colonial masters, as with India and Pakistan by Britain.

International collaboration may recognize, if not

authorize entirely new countries out of someone else’s

property, as the United Nations did regarding the Jewish-

proclaimed Israel in 1948.

“National” boundaries frequently clash with tribal,

ethnic, and/or religious groupings, as in the post-World

War I British & French chopfest of the defeated/collapsed

Ottoman Empire into the wholly-artificial new states of

Turkey, Syria, Mesopotamia (Iraq), Lebanon, and

Palestine.

After World War II the United Nations outlawed

appropriating populations’ sovereign property, except of

course where it did so itself, as in the aforementioned

recognition of Israel.

In the centuries prior to this convention, to be sure,

nations stole from one another all the time, including

territory which arguably didn’t pre-belong to either party.

Thus it was inconceivable that the Western

Hemisphere should be considered the legitimate property

of heathen savages such as the Inca, Toltecs, Aztecs, and

75 “... for the dead travel fast.” from the 1773 ballad Lenore by

Gottfried August Bürger, famously quoted by Bram Stoker in his

1897 novel Dracula.

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numerous northern native tribes. Such inconveniences

were mostly dealt with by complete genocide, with

concentration camps (called “reservations”) for the few

survivors.

In the enlightened civilization of modernity, these old

faded and forgotten horrors are at least somewhat

ritualistically acknowledged and shamed, but never quite

to the point of actually returning any of the loot.

2. Dilemma

The author, and perhaps the reader as well, is tempted

to see in MindWar an extraordinarily altruistic and

humanitarian mechanism. And so it indeed aspires to be.

Nevertheless it must never be forgotten that it is new

medicine applied to injuries to which humanity has long

since become resigned, if not enthused.

The true MWarrior must therefore pursue his craft

conscientiously while at the same time appreciating its

limitations. There is much that MW can cure; there is a

great deal more that it cannot.

Where the identity and legitimacy of specified MW

subjects are concerned, this mechanism confronts its

ultimate conditional. The formulation of an áristos or

kalokagathia has everything to do with the application of

an appropriate, defining, and fulfilling collective

morality: the Agathon. This absolutely prerequires an

established, immutable identity: a stable platform upon

which to raise the temple: an Acropolis for the Parthenon.

During the diagnostic sequence leading to the

campaign-operational Foundation Diagnosis (FD),

therefore, due attention must be paid to stresses and

imbalances behind and beneath the currently-apparent

ones. It is folly to “fix” a “nation” whose people may

consider it nothing of the sort at all, hence would take

little interest in seeing it polished and prosperous.

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Accordingly it is entirely possible that a thorough FD

may ultimately yield the disconcerting prospectus that, as

predefined, there is in finality no nation to rescue.

What may be called for is more invasive surgery: the

complete redrawing of borders, reidentification of

constituencies, perhaps to the nascent glory of a new

name.

In the Middle East of the early 21st Century, two

cases-in-point are notably conspicuous: the Kurds and

the Islamic State.

Ethnic Kurds inhabit a contiguous area, unofficially

“Kurdistan”, including portions of Turkey, Syria, and

Iraq. To the present this has not asserted itself into

implacable revolutionary zeal [see above Catechism],

though there is constant and varying tension as one or

more of the “legitimate” nations may attempt to reinforce

claims of sovereignty.

The flipside of this is that any attempts to improve the

national profiles of those same three claimants while

ignoring “Kurdistan” would be, in a word, fatuous.

At least the Kurds enjoy a general, if awkward, favor

in the eyes of the established international community.

Not so the Islamic State, an entity which materialized

from the post-American-occupation ruin of Iraq.

Prior to the 2003 American invasion, Saddam

Hussein’s regime had been a stable, if authoritarian mix

of [minority] Sunni and [majority] Shiite Muslims. Since

the Sunnis held the reins of governmental power, Iraq

served among other things as a regional counterweight to

Shiite Iran, indeed to the extent of an exhaustive if

inconclusive war between the two nations 1980-88.

In “regime-changing” Iraq following its invasion of

that country, the United States effectively swept aside the

Sunnis, leaving no residual alternative but to concoct a

replacement from the Shiites. The we-should-have-seen-

this-coming result was an Iraqi government significantly

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under the influence, if not outright control of Iran (a

nation not exactly on America’s Christmas-card list ever

since it kicked out the CIA-anointed Shah back in 1979).

In Baghdad the newly-empowered Shiites, who had

previously suffered oppression, imprisonment, and

occasional execution by the Hussein-regime Sunnis, duly

devoted the next decade to returning the disfavor.

The cumulative consequence was an uprising by

various enclaves of Sunnis, which finally came together as

a new nation, announcing itself the Islamic State (IS). 76

IS promptly proceeded to assert the normal, time-

honored prerogatives of a sovereign nation by defending

its borders and imprisoning or killing foreign attackers

and its own disobedient citizens.

The problem was that these are the prerogatives of

only “legitimate” nations, more-or-less equating to

United Nations recognition, and to date IS has not been

granted this birth certificate.

As accordingly an “international bastard” IS’ exercise

of the aforementioned violence is thus not a right but an

outrage, justifying righteous calls by the outraged for its

extermination. IS, territorially vulnerable to the massed

might of superpowers, has unsurprisingly responded by

progressively becoming less “territorial”, morphing into a

mobile-cellular international attack conglomerate very

much like its similarly non-territorial predecessor al-

Qaida. So its would-be exterminators have traded a

single, tangible target for an unknown, scattered number

of intangible ones: yet another PW strategy leaving

something to be desired.

76 As IS asserted sovereignty over a portion of Syria as well, it became

colloquially the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”, or “ISIS” - arousing

at least the author’s indignation on behalf of the ancient Egyptian

neter Isis, whose ineffable name is thus, if only coincidentally,

blasphemed.

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From a MW perspective, this existing PW response to

IS is virtually predesigned to fail. IS is the “rope” in a

multidirectional tug-of-war involving Turkey, Syria,

Baghdad-Iraq, Iran, the United States, Saudi Arabia,

Israel, and Russia [at minimum]. There is obviously

nothing remotely close to a consensus among all these

tuggers - and meanwhile strands of the rope continue to

proliferate elsewhere around the world.

Were this situation handed over to the MW TriForce,

its solution might proceed something like this:

1. Immediately remove all PW forces from

the original IS territory.

2. For the duration of the MW campaign,

blanket the entire IS, as well as the Syrian

and Baghdad capitals, with PSYCONs to

minimize antagonism and maximize

creative cooperation.

3. Have MFB establish an on-site presence

in the IS capital, and open immediate

contact with its government.

4. Emplace MFB teams with the Syrian and

Baghdad governments.

5. Through the three MFB teams, arrange

for Syria and Baghdad to cede their IS-

occupied territory to that state in return

for its further non-expansion.

6. Assign PPB teams to accomplish IS’

international recognition, e.g. the United

Nations.

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Áristos is now tentatively established, but the three

MFB teams remain in place, and the MWB PSYCON

blanket continues, until stability appears normalized. At

that point MFB is withdrawn and replaced by PPB in IS

only, to guide its peaceful and constructive development

as a new nation. The MWB PSYCON blanket is

withdrawn from Syria and Baghdad, but remains in place

over IS until PPB deems it no longer necessary.

Now assured of its safety from invasion, IS ceases all

of its worldwide paramilitary operations as a condition of

its recognized legitimacy. It provides both Syria and

Baghdad with open access to their former territories, to

facilitate impacted residents’ comfort and consideration.

This entire MW campaign, if given full international

cooperation and non-interference, should be complete

within a year of Declaration.

F. Metropolis

1. Technostate

In 1960s’ Political Science circles there was increasing

speculation, indeed anticipation of an impending eclipse

of the centuries-familiar nation/state frame of reference

by a new monster called the “multinational corporation”.

The largest business ventures had begun to establish their

footing in several industrialized countries around the

globe, as well as resource-extraction operations

throughout the “third world” of the pre-industrialized.

The fear was that such multilocated entities would forego

allegiance to any one parent-state, choosing rather to

support the most profitable side of any international

dispute.

As the decades rolled onward, this spectre indeed

materialized, but along with it came a derivative arguably

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even more sinister: the transformation of human values

into technological ones.

Traditionally the biological human being has been the

substance of society, whether individually or en masse.

But along with the proliferation of computers, “smart

phones”, and other population-pervasive cybernetics

came the gradual revaluation of humans not as users of,

but as used by these appendages.

The conquest of organic life by inorganic machines

has long been a staple of science-fiction, from the

benevolent babysitters of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot and

Jack Williamson’s The Humanoids to not-so-benevolent

extraterrestrials: Battlestar Galactica’s Cylons, Star

Trek’s Borg, and Stargate’s Replicators. But what parents

and educators are suddenly worrying about is something

much more subtle, and unnervingly science-fact: that

iPhone-suckled generations are growing up conditioned

to process thoughts more like the machines who are

increasingly their actual babysitters, friends, and

teachers.

This transition from organic-analogic to inorganic-

digitalogic sacrifices intangibles and abstractions for the

speed and precision of either/or simplification.

Along the way the metaphysical, divine soul of the

individual human being is first ignored, then discarded,

and finally intentionally destroyed as an irrelevant

obsolescence. 77

Even the most venerable universities, besieged by a

generation of students desperate for a foothold in the

increasingly competitive and shrinking technological job

market, are neglecting the Humanities (!) in favor of

career-practical curricula.

77 To more thoroughly appreciate the danger of such metaphysical

suicide, see the author’s MindStar (2016).

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In this de-intellectualization environment, as

elsewhere, George Orwell foresaw humanity’s regression

towards the complete atrophy of consciousness:

By 2050 - earlier, probably - all real knowledge of

Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the

past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton,

Byron - they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely

changed into something different, but actually changed into

something contradictory of what they used to be. Even the

literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will

change. How could you have a slogan like “Freedom is

Slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished?

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there

will be no thought as we understand it now. Orthodoxy

means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is

unconsciousness. 78

At the beginning of the 20th Century, in Expressionist

Germany, Thea von Harbou envisioned just such a future

in her novel Metropolis, in which only a rarified elite

(very much like today’s notorious “1%”) enjoy sybaritic

leisure while, in hideous subterranean factories, the

masses of humanity toil endlessly, mindlessly as slaves of

behemoth machines. 79

2. Ultima Futura

The dismal horror of Metropolis was redeemed by

revolution, but not as Nechayev would have recognized it.

It was not an apocalypse of violence, but a reconciliation,

or as von Harbou phrased it, “mediation of head and

hands by the heart”.

Catalyst of this salvation was a beatific woman, Maria

- but not before she was kidnapped and duplicated as an

78 Syme to Winston Smith in 1984, op. cit. , page #47.

79 In 1927 Metropolis was made into the classic motion picture by

Thea’s husband Fritz Lang.

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evil robotrix, the [in]famous Ultima Futura, who very

nearly orchestrated the destruction of the entire polis in a

nihilistic bacchanale of orgiastic savagery.

In this prescient parable may perhaps be glimpsed the

MW solution to onrushing technocracy: not insertion of

an even more potent “robotrix” of MWB PSYCONs, but

the PPB invocation of the original, innocent “spirit of

humanity” - our own “Maria” - to remind and restore

both “heads” and “hands” of a technostate to the primal

innocence of a shared “heart”.

This is perhaps the most elusive of MW avenues to

identify and navigate, but the impulse to find it - the

mythic Grail Quest - is as old as humanity itself. In any

case there may be no alternative.

G. “Learn to Smile”

This has been a sobering, indeed chilling chapter to

write, and doubtless to read - speaking as it does to the

menagerie of monsters under MW’s bed: complications

and consternations which can confound otherwise-

impeccable MW evaluations, campaigns, and perfections.

MW, as refined an art and science as it is, is nonetheless

subject to the schadenfroh curse of Murphy’s Law.

The lesson in this for the aspiring MWarrior is to

always temper idealism with pragmatism: to anticipate a

menu of more áristos than kalokagathia, and even then

to be prepared for an áristos that may only barely suffice.

What is important is to seek and realize it nevertheless.

In John Fowles’ The Magus, protagonist Nicholas

Urfe despairs of the rampant hypocrisy he sees about him

in the Postmodern world, and very nearly surrenders to it

in a battle for his own soul between the “Maria” of his

true love Alison and the “robotrix” of the seductive siren

Lily.

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Overseeing Nicholas’ “election” - the sheer hazard of

being forced to choose - is the “magus” Maurice

Conchis ...

A figure appeared in the door. It was Conchis. He came

and stood in front of me.

“I come to tell you that you are now elect.”

I shook my head violently from side to side.

“You have no choice.”

I still shook my head, but more wearily.

He stared at me, with those eyes that seemed older than

one man’s lifetime, and a little gleam of sympathy came into

his expression, as if after all he might have put too much

pressure on a very thin lever.

“Learn to smile, Nicholas. Learn to smile.”

It came to me then that he meant something different by

“smile”: that the irony, the humorlessness, the ruthlessness I

had always noted in his smiling was a quality he deliberately

inserted; that for him the smile was something essentially

cruel, because freedom is cruel, because the freedom that

makes us at least partly responsible for what we are is cruel.

Hence for him the smile was not so much an attitude to be

taken to life as rather the nature of the cruelty of life, a

cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is inherent in

human existence.

He meant something far stranger by “learn to smile”

than the banal “grin and bear it”. If anything it meant “learn

to be cruel; learn to be dry; learn to survive”.

That we have no choice of play or role. It is always

Othello. To be is, inexorably, to be Iago.

He gave me the smallest of bows, one full of irony, of the

contempt implicit in incongruous courtesy, then went. 80

As now this book.

80 [Abridged from] Fowles, John, The Magus (revised edition).

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1977, page #531.

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Afterword

The Prince and the Magician81

Once upon a time there was a young prince,

who believed in all things but three. He did not

believe in princesses, he did not believe in

islands, he did not believe in God. His father,

the king, told him that such things did not

exist. As there were no princesses or islands in

his father’s domaines, and no sign of God, the

young prince believed his father.

But then, one day, the prince ran away from

his palace. He came to the next land. There, to

his astonishment, from every coast he saw

islands, and on these islands, strange and

troubling creatures whom he dared not name.

As he was searching for a boat, a man in full

evening dress approached him along the shore.

“Are those real islands?” asked the young

prince.

81 Ibid., pages #550-2.

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“Of course they are real islands,” said the

man in evening dress.

“ A n d t h o s e s t r a n g e a n d t r o u b l i n g

creatures?”

“They are all genuine and authentic

princesses.”

“Then God also must exist!” cried the prince.

“I am God,” replied the man in full evening

dress, with a bow.

The young prince returned home as quickly

as he could.

“So you are back,” said his father, the king.

“I have seen islands, I have seen princesses, I

have seen God,” said the prince reproachfully.

The king was unmoved.

“Neither real islands, nor real princesses,

nor a real God, exist.”

“I saw them!”

“Tell me how God was dressed.”

“God was in full evening dress.”

“Were the sleeves of his coat rolled back?”

The prince remembered that they had been.

The king smiled.

“That is the uniform of a magician. You

have been deceived.”

At this, the prince returned to the next land,

and went to the same shore, where once again

he came upon the man in full evening dress.

“My father the king has told me who you

are,” said the young prince indignantly. “You

deceived me last time, but not again. Now I

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know that those are not real islands and real

princesses, because you are a magician.”

The man on the shore smiled.

“It is you who are deceived, my boy. In your

father’s kingdom there are many islands and

many princesses. But you are under your

father’s spell, so you cannot see them.”

The prince returned pensively home. When

he saw his father, he looked him in the eyes.

“Father, is it true that you are not a real

king, but only a magician?”

The king smiled, and rolled back his sleeves.

“Yes, my son, I am only a magician.”

“Then the man on the shore was God.”

“The man on the shore was another

magician.”

“I must know the real truth, the truth

beyond magic.”

“There is no truth beyond magic,” said the

king.

The prince was full of sadness.

He said, “I will kill myself.”

The king by magic caused death to appear.

Death stood in the door and beckoned to the

prince. The prince shuddered. He remembered

the beautiful but unreal islands and the unreal

but beautiful princesses.

“Very well,” he said. “I can bear it.”

“You see, my son,” said the king, “you too

now begin to be a magician.”

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Index

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Absolutism, Age of 93.

“Battlefield janitor” 110.

Acheson, Dean 100-1.

Battlestar Galactica 167.

Africa 24.

Behavioralism 94.

Agathon 118-20, 123-4.

“Big Bang” 38.

- Pyramid 124-131, 126

Blows Against the Empire

(diagram), 135, 136.

97n.

Aging 24.

Bonaparte, Napoleon 160.

Agriculture 24.

Boorstin, Daniel 63-6.

AIDS 24.

Borders, national 161-3.

Al-Qaida 164.

Case of Charles Dexter

Allowat Sakima, Chief 59,

Ward, The [see

85.

“Lovecraft”]

“Along Came Jones” 150.

Central Intelligence

Ambiguity 50.

Agency 101n, 106-7.

Anticipation 75-6.

Children 25.

Andromeda, Project 97n.

China 36, 149.

Apocalypse Now 114n.

Churchill, Winston 86-7.

Apprehension (nœtic) 131.

Civil Affairs Branch 110.

Aquinas, Thomas 32.

Colonization, space 96.

Aquino, Janet 5.

Columbus 54.

Áristos 18, 37, 40, 117-8,

Communism 121-2.

138, 146, 166.

Composition & Division

Argumentum ad

53.

Hominem 54-5.

Confederation, [U.S.]

Argumentum ad

Articles of 160.

Ignorantium 52.

Continuum 57.

Asimov, Isaac [see

Counter-Reformation 93.

“Foundation” & “I,

Cow, sacred 95.

Robot”]

Creation (5D) 82-3.

Atheism 36.

Crete, Minoan 120.

Atomic energy 25, 34, 44.

Cross-matrix 98-9.

Attention 71.

Cuban Missile Crisis 90,

Authoritarian argument

100-1.

49-50.

Cycles 101.

Ball, George 101.

Davis, Miles 45.

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Decolonization 25.

Enlightenment, The 78, 93,

Demining 25.

121n.

Democracy 26.

Environment 26, 44.

Development, national 26.

Eros 126, 128.

Dialectic:

Eschatology 33.

- Definition 128.

Eternal Law [see “Law:”]

- Idealism 122.

Europe 36.

- Materialism 122.

Experts 100-1.

- of Reason 126, 128.

Fad 95-6, 100.

- of Revolution 126, 128-9,

False-Flag 114.

151-60..

Family 26.

- of Transcendence 126,

Fear 92-101.

129.

Fenwick, Duchy of Grand

Dianoia 126, 128.

141.

Dike 120.

FF [see “FindFar”]

Dimensions:

FindFar (book) 17-19.

- 1-3 61.

FindFar 40-1.

- 4 59-60.

FindFar 18.

- 82-3.

FireForce 97n.

- x 81-2.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott 7.

diogenes 130.

Flow-tree 98.

Disabilities, personal 28.

Food 27.

Disarmament 26.

Forbidden Planet 70.

Disasters, natural 27

Forecasting 75.

Disintoxication 93.

Foreshaping 76.

Divine Law [see “Law:”]

Fortuna 41-2, 83.

“Doublethink” 67, 87-8.

Foundation [novels] 116.

Draco 120.

Foundation Diagnosis

Eckleburg, T.J. 7, 19.

115-6.

Eide 126, 129.

Fowles, John 40n, 169-73.

Eikasia 126, 128.

Futurism 94-6.

Eikone 126, 128.

- Political 94-5.

Einstein, Albert 18, 61.

Games [see “Models”]

Egypt:

Genocide 29.

- Ancient 119.

Global warming 22-3,

- Contemporary 132, 149.

43-4.

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God 25, 32-6, 78-80.

Johnson, Lyndon 101.

- as state 122n.

Jones, Indiana 85, 141.

- as time 80-1.

Kalokagathia 18, 40, 117,

- Stratified 124-5.

123-4, 131-9.

Gods [see “Neteru”]

Kant, Immanuel 60-1.

Gorgias 40n.

Kantner, Paul 97n.

Governance 27.

Kennedy, John F. 21, 23,

Great Gatsby, The 7.

90-1, 148.

Hanrieder, Wolfram 38n.

Kerensky, Alexander 160.

Health 27, 44.

Klein bottle 62.

Hegel, Georg 78-9.

Kondratieff Cycle 101.

Hippie 95.

Kosmos nœtos 130.

History 63-7.

Kung Fu (television series)

Hitler, Adolf 54-5.

70.

Hoff, Ron 71-2.

Kurds/Kurdistan 163

Homeostasis 126, 127.

L5 Society 96.

Hudson Institute 105.

Lansdale, Edward 148n.

Human Law [see “Law:”]

LaVey, Anton 38n.

Humanoids, The 167.

Law:

Human rights 27.

- Definition 31-2.

Human settlement 27.

- Divine 32, 34-5.

Humanitarian assistance

- Eternal 32-3.

28.

- Human 32, 35-6.

Hybris 120.

- International 28.

Identity 74-5.

- MindWar 109.

Ignoratio Elenchi 53-4.

- Murphy’s 169.

Institutionalism 93.

- Natural 32, 34.

Interdependence 51.

“Learn to Smile” 169-70.

International Law [see

Leary, Timothy 96.

“Law:”]

Lenin, Vladimir 160.

Iraq 163-6.

Logic:

I, Robo t 167.

- Abduction 47.

Islamic State 163-6.

- Deductuin 46-7.

Israel 89, 91n, 119.

- Definition 46.

Iyer, Raghavan 119n,

- Fallacies 47-55.

125-6, 130, 134-5.

- Induction 47.

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Logos 126, 129.

Nemo, Captain 85.

Lovecraft, H.P. 75.

Neteru, Egyptian 33-4,

Maat 119.

129, 164n.

Machiavelli, Niccolò 36-7,

Nietzsche, Friedrich 56,

41-5.

78-9.

Magus, The [see “Fowles”]

Nœsis 126, 128, 131.

Marcus Aurelius 45.

Nomos 120, 130.

Masada 113.

Non Sequitur 54.

Mathemata 126, 129.

Noumenon 61-2.

Memory 70-5.

Nous 129.

- Episodic 73.

Occasione 44, 83, 160.

Mesopotamia:

Oceans 28.

- Ancient 119.

O’Neill, Gerard K. 96.

- Post-World War I 161.

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

MetaForce Branch 110.

25.

Metropolis 166-9.

Ordini 45.

MindStar 17-18, 167n.

Orwell, George [see

MindWar (book) 17-18, 39,

“1984”]

67.

OU [see “Universe,

MindWar 40-1.

objective”]

- Branch 110.

Outer Limits, The 17.

- Declaration 112-6.

Palestine 89.

- “Enemy” definition 114.

ParaPolitics:

- Laws 109, 116.

- Branch 110, 118.

- Transparency 115.

- Kalokagathia 131-9, 135

- TriForce 110.

(diagram).

Mines, land 25.

Patriotism 133.

Möbius Strip 62.

Patterns [see “Thinking”]

Models 100.

Peace 28.

MONGOOSE, Operation

Pearl Harbor 86-7.

148n.

Perspective (xD) 81-2.

Moody Blues 96.

Physis 120, 126, 129.

Motives, ulterior 23.

PhysWar 17, 18, 27.

MW [see “MindWar”]

- Branches 110-1.

Necessita 43-4.

- Declaration 112-3.

Nechayev, Sergey 154-160.

- NonDeclaration 113-4.

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Pistis 126, 128.

Reformation 93.

Plato 40n.

Refugees 29, 44.

Polis 119.

Relativity [see “Einstein”]

Political Science [see

Retention 72-4.

“Science”]

Revolution 151-60.

Politics [of]:

Revolutionary Catechism,

- Perfectability 135, 138.

The 154-60.

- Power 135, 137, 148.

Romanticism 93.

- Reason 135, 137.

Rome 45, 112-3.

- Self-Preservation 135,

Roosevelt, Eleanor 21.

137.

Roosevelt, Franklin 86-7

- Stability 135, 137, 146-50.

Russia 36.

- Transcendence 135, 138.

Sanity/insanity 67-8.

- Welfare 135, 137.

Scenarios 99.

Population 29, 44.

Science:

Postmodernism 94n.

- Physical 37-8.

Pressure 22.

- Political 38-9, 92-5.

Prince, The [see

- Social 38-9.

“Machiavelli”]

Security 28.

Profitability, PW 142-6.

Sentimental argument 49.

Prouty, L. Fletcher 91n,

Serling, Rod 83.

148.

Shalom 119.

“Psychohistory” 116n.

Shulmu 119.

Psychological Operations

Significance 51-2.

Branch 110.

Simulations [see “Models”]

PSYCON (Psychological

SMI2LE 96.

Control) 35, 80, 111,

Snakes! 141.

133.

Socrates 56.

PW [see “PhysWar”]

Solon 120.

Pythagoras 120.

Somit, Albert 94-5.

Quoting Out-of-Context

Special Forces Branch 110.

48-9.

Stalin, Joseph 152.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Starfish 30-1, 42.

[see “Jones”]

Stargate 167.

“Reality Control” 63.

Star Trek 167.

Reflection 45-57.

Stasis 85-92.

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State, Department of 106.

Twilight of the Idols [see

State, Metaethical:

“Nietzsche”]

- Atheistic 123.

Twilight Zone, The [see

- Theistic 122.

“Serling”]

Stoicism 45.

Twitter 71n.

Stratfor 103-5.

Ukraine 132-3.

Structural-Functionalism

Ultima Futura 168-9.

93.

United Nations 113n.

Summa Theologica [see

United States 36.

“Aquinas”]

Universe:

Supertheism 36.

- Collective Subjective

Survivalism 95.

69-70.

Switzerland 149.

- Objective 34, 62-3, 67.

Syria 163-6.

- Subjective 67, 82-3.

Technostate 166-8.

Utilitarianism 93.

Tenacity 89-90.

Vietnam 101.

Ten Commandments 55.

Virtu 42-3, 83.

Terrorism 29.

Volunteerism 30.

Thinking:

von Harbou, Thea [see

- Algorithmic 67.

“Metropolis”]

- Pattern 67-70.

“War is Peace” 147.

Thought architecture:

Water 30.

- Agathon pyramid 127.

Williamson, Jack [see

- Conscious 67.

“Humanoids”]

- Subconscious 67.

Wilson, Woodrow 102.

“Thoughtcrime” 88-9.

Women 30.

“Thought Police” 89n.

World Future Society

Time:

102-3.

- Circular 76-7.

Wright, Frank Lloyd 59.

- Cyclical 77.

“X” (in JFK) [see “Prouty”]

- Definition 60.

Xenophobia 29.

- God 80.

Yamamoto, Admiral 87.

- Linear 78-9.

1984 67-9, 73n, 87-9, 147,

- Models 76-80.

168.

- Relational 79-80.

20,000 Leagues Under the

Trend extrapolation 97-8.

Sea [see “Nemo”]

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Accessories

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For MindWar accessories

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MindWar Branch, MetaForce Branch, and

ParaPolitics Branch raiment and memorabilia.

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About the Author

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After commencing his military career as Cadet

Colonel of the Santa Barbara High School Jr. ROTC in

1964, Michael Aquino was commissioned in the

Regular Army as a Sr. ROTC Distinguished Military

Graduate of the University of California in 1968. After

a year with the 1/17th Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division,

he completed the PSYOP Officer Course at the John F.

Kennedy Special Warfare School, in which he was

among select students cross-trained with the

concurrent Special Forces Officer Course.

During 1969-70 he was assigned to the 6th PSYOP

Battalion, 4th Group, Vietnam. As an HA Command &

Control Team Leader, he was responsible for both

tactical (HB) teams in combat operations, and audio-

visual (HE) teams in the Civil Operations &

Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS)

program, and flew numerous PSYOP air support

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missions throughout III Corps Tactical Zone with both

the U.S. Air Force and Army aviation.

In 1972 he joined the 306th PSYOP Battalion

(Strategic), USAR at Fort MacArthur, California, and

for the next seven years served as Research & Analysis

(FA) Team Leader, Operations Officer, and finally

Executive Officer. In the 306th - whose members

ranged from eccentric Hollywood personalities to dour

L.A.P.D. officers - he oversaw highly-classified Basic

PSYOP Studies for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, PSYOP

support for the training of units such as the 12th

Special Forces, and use of the 306th’s atmospheric

World War II-era bunkers for space combat scenes in

the original Battlestar Galactica television series.

In 1976 he was selected for the Foreign Area Officer

career program, completed that qualification at the

Special Warfare Center and Central Intelligence

Agency during the next three years, and participated in

NATO REFORGER exercises as a Western Europe

specialist. In 1976 he also completed the remaining

course requirements for Special Forces, and was

awarded that Tab upon its creation in 1984.

From 1979 to 1981 he served as the FA Team

Leader for Headquarters, 7th PSYOP Group in San

Francisco, during which time he and the Group

Commander collaborated on the predecessor concept

paper to this MindWar book.

Returning to active duty in 1981, he was transferred

to Civil Affairs Branch, completed its Advanced Course

at the Special Warfare Center as the Distinguished

Graduate, and received the rare Primary Skill identifier

of Politico-Military Affairs Officer (48G). In this

capacity he was sent to the State Department Foreign

Service Institute and the Defense Intelligence Agency

for Attaché qualification, completed the Military

Intelligence Officer Advanced Course at Fort

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Huachuca, and in 1986 was reassigned to Military

Intelligence Branch.

In 1986-7 he was the sole USAR officer selected to

attend the Industrial College of the National Defense

University. During that year he worked with the U.S.

Information Agency representative at the National War

College on the PSYOP Ethics paper which is also a

predecessor to this book.

In 1990 as one of the Army’s first officers to be

certified in Joint Space Intelligence by the U.S. Air

Force, he was assigned to J2 HQ U.S. Space Command,

where in Section X, out of the Cheyenne Mountain

NORAD complex, he was involved with those files until

he retired from the Active USAR in 1994.

Since the Army had waited until the exact date of

his final USA retirement 2006 to create the PSYOP

Branch, it graciously transferred him “posthumously”

to the Green & Grey in 2011. He has retained his

original affiliation with the 1st Special Forces Regiment

out of respect for that unique honor.

American decorations include the Bronze Star,

Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, three Army

C o m m e n d a t i o n M e d a l s , t w o A r m y R e s e r v e

Achievement Medals, Parachutist Badge, Special

Forces Tab, and USAF Space & Missile Badge.

Vietnamese decorations include the Gallantry Cross,

Psychological Warfare Medal, and Air Service Medal.

Academically he received the Ph.D. in Political

Science from the University of California in 1980 and

the M.P.A. in National Resource Management from

George Washington University in 1987. He taught as

Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Golden Gate

University 1980-86.

Professionally he is a member of the Special Forces,

PSYOP, Civil Affairs, Former Intelligence Officers, and

Air/Space/Missile Defense Associations.

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He is a past National Commander of the Knights of

Dunamis (Eagle Scout Honor Society) and recipient of

its Knight Eagle Distinguished Service Award. He has

also received the Vigil Honor of Scouting’s Order of the

Arrow, and the Distinguished Service Key of Alpha Phi

Omega Fraternity.

He is a Priest of the ancient Egyptian god Set.

After the conclusion of his U.S. government service,

the Constitution permitted him to be recognized by

Scotland’s Lord Lyon King of Arms as the current

Baron of Rachane, Argyllshire. He, Baroness Lilith,

and inevitable, immortal cats live in San Francisco.