Five Kings sat in front of the plasma TV screen: Ivan Ivanovich - the owner of the Ostankino tower, Pyotr Petrovich - the head of the sex industry, Vasily Vasilyevich - the owner of an alcoholic corporation, Nikolai Nikolaevich - a sports magnate and computer genius Alex Gotman. On the screen, knights-crusaders in snow-white robes rushed towards the enemy army, sweeping away the Arabian soldiers on foot with their cavalry.
“You know, gentlemen,” Alex Gotman broke the silence, “in fact, the crusades are a kind of practical manual, written by history itself, about how you can play off nations and benefit from it.
- Exactly, Alex. Amazingly, people can be forced to kill each other, ostensibly in the name of protecting their God. What self-conceit one must have in order for a person to sincerely believe that God needs his protection! - Ivan Ivanovich laughed.
- In fact, these campaigns at one time the Catholic Church killed two birds with one stone, - said Pyotr Petrovich, - or rather, she killed, of course, not hares, but half of Europe, but now that's not about that. First, it was possible to direct the aggression of various marginal elements in the right direction, promising them forgiveness of sins for the war with the “infidels”. And secondly, at the expense of these same marginal people - to significantly expand their zone of influence and replenish the treasury.
- Oh yes, the then puppeteers knew a lot about manipulation. The main thing is that everything is in the best style of unstructured management of society - to promote one's interests under the supposedly specious tinsel, - Nikolai Nikolayevich answered, - in fact, gentlemen, I am now doing the same thing. And if then people could be played off on the basis of the fact that they worship God in different ways, today I have moved even further. I can make people kill each other just because they have different colored scarves.
- I do not understand, sorry. What kind of scarves? Alex asked.
- Yes, you, Alex, are sitting at your laptop all the time, except for your binary code you can no longer see anything. I'm talking about football. Fans of two different teams are ready to tear each other with their teeth with more frenzy than the Templars and Saracens in their time. And if the then puppeteers at least came up with a more impressive reason - convinced that there were supposedly “infidels” on the other side of the barricades, then it’s even easier for me - we tied red rags around their necks, while others - blue ones, some had some kind of “Dynamo”, others have some "Spartak". And you should have seen how these simpletons are ready to be at enmity with each other, and sometimes even literally - right up to armed clashes, - Nikolai Nikolayevich explained.
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- People are generally easy to manage, - Petr Petrovich entered the conversation again, - for example, if we are talking about some kind of crime, and it was committed, for example, by a person of Caucasian nationality - we will definitely repeat this five times in a news release, so that heat up ethnic hatred. And this is the typical principle of redirecting attention. Instead of looking for the real causes of crime and social problems, rabid thugs, after such news, run to beat Tajiks at a nearby construction site and consider themselves almost national heroes.
- Exactly! And after all, no one will have a question about why these migrant workers are forced to work at a construction site for a penny, there is "Doshirak" and live in bestial conditions, - Ivan Ivanovich replied, - it is much easier to accuse them of "coming in large numbers" and arrange a pogrom. Because it is always easier for crowds to wave their hands than to think with their heads. And we are actively using it.
- To me all these clashes because of the color of the skin or the coloring of the scarf remind me of a children's fairy tale about Gulliver, - Vasily Vasilyevich entered into a conversation, - there the Lilliputians fought with each other only because of the question of which end should be used to break eggs - blunt or sharp … There is an opinion that the author thus ridiculed the contradictions between the Catholic and Protestant churches. Everyone laughed, but they are still excellent at inciting hatred even on even smaller contradictions than breaking eggs with a blunt or sharp end. As if weapons and hate were ever the way to restore truth and justice?
“Isn't the power of the sword ultimately determining who is right? - Alex got interested in the topic. - I have 90% of computer games based on the fact that you have to kill hordes of monsters or just people who are different from you, and only then you will come to victory.
- Your games are made very correctly, - Ivan Ivanovich praised the computer genius, - as they promote into society a matrix of conflict resolution that is beneficial to us - with the help of fists and weapons. This is precisely the level to which we lower the rabble, so that it can never oppose us in really serious things that require intellectual and collective action.
- Which ones, for example? - Alex supported the development of the conversation.
- Yes, in the very same, Alex, which we are dealing with. In matters of governing countries and peoples, - Ivan Ivanovich decided not to waste time on trifles and immediately touch upon the main thing, - Have you heard a lot of stories about people in our circle taking up arms?
“I don’t remember much, but… sometimes there is information that this or that respected person accidentally fell out of the window or disappeared somewhere,” Alex replied.
- These are exceptions, which, as they say, only confirm the rule. For the rest, we have no reason for quarrels, because everyone has about the same interest - to maintain a stable slave-owning society, while remaining in the status of masters of the situation. And different opinions arise only about the methods of achieving the goal. Someone stands up for economic instruments - promoting loans, encouraging usury, taking over central banks. Someone owns major media in order to manipulate the masses through control over information flows. Someone plunges the plebs into a drugged state with the help of genetic weapons: alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. And some are busy with the development of new ideologies, sects, historical myths - there is a business for everyone, - Ivan Ivanovich explained in detail.
“You forgot to say that the esteemed ones were entrusted to show their talents in managing professional sports,” Nikolai Nikolayevich added proudly, switching the TV to his favorite channel, Match TV, where the journalists interviewed his general producer, a slender young brunette, just right.
- Listen, Nikolai Nikolaevich, that's why you recommended this woman as the head of the TV channel. After all, it has nothing to do with sports at all? - Vasily Vasilyevich asked with irritation, staring at the screen.
“For your information, my dear friend, professional athletes are very rarely able to engage in serious mental activity due to large imbalances in personality development,” Nikolai Nikolaevich answered competently. - If all your life you have been doing nothing but running or waving your fists, then, how to put it mildly, you will hardly differ in developed intelligence and intuition. And this girl is quite experienced and, most importantly, she went through all our filters: she starred in PlayBoy magazine, worked for Echo of Moscow, dreams of getting into the Forbs list. In general, the ideal unscrupulous employee for such a position.
- Gentlemen, let's not argue over trifles, - Ivan Ivanovich suggested returning to the main topic of the conversation, taking the remote control from the hands of the football magnate and turning on the historical channel again. - In general, we have succeeded well in promoting the theory of "competition of nations", that is, the enmity of peoples with each other. And most countries now, instead of looking for common ground and engaging in mutually beneficial cooperation, are trying in every possible way to cheat each other and profit at someone else's expense, seeing only enemies in those around them. And we play on these contradictions beautifully, following our proven principle of "divide and conquer." But we have an equally difficult task on our agenda - to destroy the most stable collective that has existed for thousands of years, and today has become an obstacle to achieving our goals.
- What is it? Is there at least one structure in opposition to us with such a long history? Alex asked.
“There are different structures, but I’m actually talking about something else,” Ivan Ivanovich continued. - Family is our main enemy! It is in the family that the child is taught all these ideas that are harmful to us, that you need to take care of others, think about the Motherland, strive for community, listen to your conscience, and so on. We need to stop this once and for all, completely destroy the family - set up fathers and children against each other, sow discord in relations between women and men, quarrel between grandparents. Family life should remain only as a privilege of the people of our circle, as a right granted to Kings.
- Unfortunately, this is not yet smooth everywhere. Especially in Russia, it turned out to be difficult to implement this task, - Petr Petrovich complained. - What we just didn’t offer local aborigines: marriage contracts, and baby boxes, and juvenile justice, and surrogacy, and free relationships - everything was down the drain. What are they there in this family - is it smeared with honey?
- Well, not everything is so bad, Pyotr Petrovich, - Alex answered, opening his laptop. - As the growth of divorce statistics shows, the prospects in this area, in my opinion, are quite good. Of course, the old generations are still holding out, but they are being replaced by new ones. But we did a very good job with young people in social networks. Today she is almost all infected with the ideology of hedonism, accustomed to consume and have fun. And as you understand, if such views dominate even among one of the spouses, then it is almost impossible to create a strong family.
- Thank you Alex, you continue to delight us and inspire confidence in the bright future, - said Ivan Ivanovich, looking at the graphs on the monitor of a computer genius. - Still, we did the right thing, having listened to you and staked on modern technologies. While the older generation is staring at our television screens, we are actively engaged in the younger generation - shaping his clip thinking and instilling anti-family attitudes.
- Only after achieving the goal of destroying the family, we will be able to finally turn society into a biomass of atomized individuals, always chasing pleasure and therefore easily manipulated. Each of them will receive his own piece of happiness, - summed up Pyotr Petrovich
- Happiness of a slave, - Ivan Ivanovich specified.
The historical film was drawing to a close. A knight-crusader in a snow-white robe appeared on the TV screen, the red cross was not visible - it merged with a cloak soaked through with the blood of “infidels”. The knight stuck his sword into the ground, raised his eyes to the sky and prayed fervently. To some of their gods. Who promised him heavenly booths for dozens of killed people.
