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Empowering Men:
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The Political Theory of Agendaism*
© Peter Zohrab 2005 |
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Prologue: the Chimps
Imagine that you owned a large group of highly intelligent
chimpanzees, and that you were able to communicate with them in their language.
Suppose that you kept them locked up in an airconditioned building without
windows, television, radio, telecommunications, visitors, or any other way
of receiving input from the outside.
Suppose, further, that you were a democratic sort
of person, and that (apart from those restrictions) you allowed the chimpanzees
to govern themselves democratically. However, they were dependent on you to
supply all the information on which to decide which way to vote.
For example, suppose they wanted to eat a kilo of
bananas each per week. In that case, you might tell them that the price of
bananas was much higher than it really was, and/or that the budget was much
smaller than it actually was -- because you had another agenda, i.e. other
reasons for restricting the amount of bananas that they ate. You might have
some good reason for not telling them about your agenda, or you might just
not feel like telling it to them.
In this set-up, though the chimpanzees made democratic
decisions, they were based on the information that you supplied to them, and
that information was determined by your agenda. That was a democratic system,
but it was subject to your agenda. You were the one who was really in control,
and the fact that the system was democratic was really irrelevant.
The Humans
Left-wing activists are largely in control of education systems and the
media, though left-wing journalists keep pointing unconvincingly to right-wing
media barons as a source of bias. Unions are also usually run by left-wing
activists, who use their members' funds to pursue various causes that have
little or nothing to do with the industries where their members work.
As an example of union fascism, I could mention my branch (the Correspondence
School Branch) of the Post-Primary Teachers' Association, whose executive
routinely placed agenda items that I proposed at the bottom of the list, below
"General Business", so that anyone could raise anything under "General
Business", leaving the lunchtime meetings too little time to discuss
my agenda item fully, if at all.
Revolution
So it is a red herring (a very Red
herring) to worry about how democratic a country is, when our information
is controlled in this way. Extremism and revolution are inevitable, in the
long run, unless the system changes as regards the control over information.
* For the record, I hereby claim that I have invented
this word and this theory. Previous terms that I thought I had invented, such
as "Feminazism", "Misandry", "Masculism", and
"Virism", though they may have occurred to other people independently,
have now become part of the landscape.
See also:
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