Mediating the relationship between the Last class and the Liar class (Part #1)
This exploration was evoked by the lack of evidence for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and the affirmation by
Ray McGovern, co-founder of the
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (USA), that "No President has lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably" (
Independent on Sunday, 9 November 2003). The leaders of the Coalition of the Willing were complicit in this approach to truth. The world is now witness to "Liars' Summits" of the most blatant kind. But, as George Bush himself declared: "I'm sick and tired of lies and deception"
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Promoting any truth
offering opportunities of subterfuge
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Reframing
truth to
offer
competitive advantage |
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Promoting
truth to
occupy
the moral
high
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Accepting any truths
that offer hope of survival |
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"Liar class"
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"Last class"
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"Righteous class"
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"Reframe class"
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- Conservative values
- Relative wealth (health, education, etc)
- Priority to credibility within peer groups (old boy networks, secret societies, etc)
- Manipulation of bureaucracy
- Manipulation of political process (electoral promises, electoral fraud)
- Exploitation of privileges and perks
- Manipulation of tax system
- Manipulation of legal system (influence on judiciary, legal harassment, extrajudicial processes)
- Appropriating / Highjacking popular values and symbols
- Power high ground
- "Dirty tricks"
- Cultivation of status and recognition
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- Survival values
- Relative poverty (ill-health, lack of education, etc)
- Gullibility (susceptibility to promises, consumer products)
- Challenged (self-discipline, work ethic, substance abuse)
- Disregard for property (graffiti, litter, etc)
- Neediness (begging, victimhood, etc)
- Fraud (benefits, etc)
- Exploitation (wages, taxation, cannon fodder, etc)
- Target (marketing, violence, propaganda, etc)
- Hopelessness
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- Rule-bound ("by the book")
- Officious
- Occupation of moral high-ground ("evil" others)
- Guardians of integrity (morality, etc)
- Appeals for (self) sacrifice
- Monopoly of vision of the right future
- Interpreters of truth ("priesthoods", those who know
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- Change for change's sake
- Irresponsibility, recklessness
- Indifference to consequences
- Inconstancy, fecklessness
- Imaginative re-invention
- Medium is the message
- Today's truth is tomorrow's lie -- tomorrow's truth is today's lie
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"Research class"
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"Business class"
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"Salvation class"
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"Alter class"
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- Technocratic values
- Socially irresponsible research (weapons, nuclear, nano, racial intelligence, anthropological pillaging, etc)
- Invasive research (political surveillance, intelligence research, etc)
- Covert (sneaky) research agenda (tobacco, GM, etc)
- Complicit in distortion of research process ("scientific whaling", dubious pharmaceutical products, etc)
- Complicit in threat/benefit misrepresentation (star wars, energy, "research" satellites, nano, etc)
- Sponsored research (predefined results on demand)
- Monopolization of intellectual property
- Politicized research (results on demand, political think-tanks)
- Frauulent research
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- Enterprise and entreneurship
- Profitability
- "Business is Business" values
- Exploitative enterprise
- Environmental degradation
- Depletion of natural resources
- Destabilizing smaller enterprises
- Monopolistic agendas
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- Transcendental values
- Re-making others in one's own image (proselytism, evangelism)
- Constraining others "for their own good" (crusading)
- Hypocrisy ("rice Christians")
- Double standards (clothing the naked, burkha, hajib, bikini)
- Exploitative mystification (elders, shamans, voodoo)
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- Self-reliant / Grounded values
- Self-help
- Promoting traditional knowledge (TEK)
- Community development
- Non exploitative technology
- Self-reliant innovation / repair
- De-linking
- Participative democracy
- Fragmented remedial initiatives
- Inability to apply apply critical analysis of other classes to remedy own dynamics
- Non-violent strategies
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