/lit/ - Literature

All I have to say is that I pretty much worship Frank Herbert's Dune series for its wisdom regarding politics. Bureaucracy, ideology, and leaders are constantly in a flux to gain and maintain power. But messiahs and idols are the most productive and dangerous force capable of wielding power.

Bureaucracies are slow and inefficient, but methodical and capable of escaping accountability. They are constantly competing with other organizations. Vying for resources and influence. Despite their shortcomings, they are sturdy and very hard to kill. JFK threatened to destroy the CIA, and look where that got him. Their ability to escape accountability is what makes them so formidable. They are institutions that never sleep and every person and part within it's structure is replaceable. (In the first book of Dune this is exemplified in The Emperor being able to destroy a leading Landsraad house. Liet-Kynes (Herbert's self insert character), the Judge of the Change knows that resisting the coverup is futile).

Ideologies with the greatest effect are the ones that appeal to the sensibilities of dreamers, realists, intellectuals, and sheeple. They are not like a bureaucracy or leader. Bureaucracies have quarterly reports, budget restraints, minions to pay. Leaders expire/retire/sellout. However, ideologies are in a sense eternal. They are merely ideas. They promise an ideal of the future. Trying to appeal to so many people makes it hard to accurately map to reality. They can be preserved in a book, innovated on, and spread across populations through word of mouth. But without a thought leader, can become ensconced in dogma and preyed upon by opportunists. (Superstition and Dogma are the Bene Gesserit bread and butter for leveraging power amongst the unassuming masses. All one needs to do is appeal to their expectations to leverage power). Given what we are learning about MLK, this is the civil rights movement in a nutshell.

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NAMIDU BUDDHA MAITREYA

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It' true. All of it.