How Tyrants Use The Greater Good To Control The Masses

In Chapter 6 of the 1st book of The Book of Satan, we learn that Satanists oppose tyranny and favor the individual over the collective. Today we will be looking at how tyrants use the “greater good” as a tool for social control. 

The Book of Satan I The True Philosophy of Satan wrote: Satanists know that a healthy society depends on individuals who are strong-willed and have clear minds. These people are capable of effectively responding to new situations. The pillars of a strong society are self-sufficient, independent people who are unprejudiced.

The world is becoming ever more tyrannical and authoritarian, with free speech and individual rights being trodden underfoot. Tyrants seek to control people through manipulation and lies, fear-mongering, and propaganda. They use psychological manipulation to justify anti-life policies.

When we take a look at the world around us, some questions often come to mind. Why do people constantly allow themselves to be duped into giving up all of their freedoms in favor of oppression and control? Why are the people who defend liberty in the minority? Can’t they see that a world without freedom is a place of mass suffering?

Let’s examine these questions together. Albert Camus, a French philosopher, and author stated that liberty doesn’t go away because of some advanced sneaky trick. Instead, it is because there are not enough people left to defend it. 

Albert Camus wrote: If freedom is regressing today throughout such a large part of the world, this is probably because the devices for enslavement have never been so cynically chosen or so effective, but also because her real defenders, through fatigue, through despair, or a false idea of strategy and efficiency, have turned away from her. - Albert Camus

An interesting lesson that I have learned in life, is that when someone isn’t even aware that there is a problem, there is no way for them to go about solving it. This is one of the many reasons why freedom is becoming a rare thing in modern times.

People mistakenly believe themselves to be free and don’t even realize the level of their enslavement. It is like a frog in a pot of boiling water. If you just throw him into the scalding water, he will fight back and try to escape, jumping out of the pot. Instead, he is placed in water that is room temperature, while the heat is gradually increased until he is cooked alive.

Goethe wrote:None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who believe that they are free. - Goethe

People believe they are free while ignoring the fact that they are being watched, spied upon, inspected, law-driven, directed, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, and censored. All of this is being done by those who don’t have the wisdom, virtue, or right to justify their position.

Because they have convinced people to willingly accept the shackles, they don’t even know that they need to free themselves. Only when you acknowledge the chains around your feet, only then can you work towards casting them aside. In doing this you will not only free yourself but also help to create a better world.

Of course, ignorance concerning a lack of freedom is just one of the many reasons why tyrants are taking over. The 1st book of the Book of Satan shows us that there is a much greater poison that is infecting minds and contributing to the death of freedom. This is the idea of collectivism.

The Book of Satan I The True Philosophy of Satan wrote: Satanism believes in the power of the individual above that of the collective. The true philosophy of Satan is about empowering the individual to combat tyranny and to restore the health of society. People need to strive to set themselves free so that the world can be free.

If you want to understand why collectivism is so dangerous, then you have to ask some interesting questions. Does the individual exist for the sake of society? Does society exist for the sake of individuals?

The tyrants who want to lay hold on your freedom will always push the idea that the individual exists for the sake of society. They want you to believe this so that they can get you to sacrifice your own selfish private interests for the common good. They want you to subordinate yourself to the benefit of society and the collective.

They believe that the common good should always come before the individual good. This doctrine has been adopted by many tyrants throughout history, and under their iron fist, things always ended up going south. The result was tears, suffering, and wide-scale destruction and death.

Does placing the collective over the individual really work? If so, why does it always end up being such a huge disaster? Surely placing the needs of others before yourself for the greater good of society is an act of compassion and selflessness, right?

On the surface, collectivism seems to be the position with the moral high ground, but when you dig a little deeper it becomes obvious how flawed this mentality is. The fallacy of misplaced concreteness shows us why this line of reasoning is absurd.

Collectivism by design takes society (which is only a concept) and treats it like it has a concrete existence. The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung stated that society is just a term and nothing more.

C.G Jung wrote:“Society” is nothing more than a term, a concept for the symbiosis of a group of human beings. A concept is not a carrier of life. -C.G. Jung

When compared to the individual that actually exists in the world, it becomes clear to see that society is just an abstraction used to represent a group of ever-changing individuals who are living and interacting in a designated space. You can’t point to society and say “Ah there is society” in the same way that you can identify an individual by name. This is because society is just a label, a term. Society by itself doesn’t aim at anything or have “interests”. It doesn’t exist apart from the thoughts and actions of people. This is true for all collectives. 

C.G Jung wrote: The “nation” is a personified concept… the nation has no life of its own apart from the individual and is therefore not an end in itself... All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found. -C.G Jung

Now the real reason why tyrants push collectivism is revealed. Society by itself can't think, act, speak or choose. This means that one person or a small group of people must be given the ability to define what the greater good of society is. It justifies them to have the power to force individuals to act in service of this “greater good”.

Ruling classes have anointed themselves as the determiner of the greater good since the dawn of civilization. Most of the time this “greater good” only ended up being for the good of those who were in power.

This is seen over and over again with religions like Christianity and Islam, where God or his mouthpiece knows what is best for the good of the people. This enables one to rise with Godlike power, because the “God” or “the Gods” always knows better than you, and what is best for you. 

Nathaniel Branden wrote: With such systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him-or-her-self and commanded to be “unselfish” in favor of sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called God or pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat - or the cosmos. It’s a strange paradox of our history that this doctrine - which tells us that we are to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals - has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind.

From the first individual that was sacrificed upon an altar for the good of the tribe to the heretics and dissenters burned at the stake for the good of the populace or the glory of God, to the millions exterminated… in slave-labor camps for the good of the race or of the proletariat, it is this morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present. - Nathaniel Branden

Those who are encouraging you to look to an authority higher than you, whether it be a person or “the Gods” is in favor of collectivism. These people believe that an individual is something subordinate, and therefore should dedicate themselves to the ethical whole. This is what enables tyrants to lay hold on an individual’s life because everything belongs to this “higher authority”.

Being an individual means not being guided by anyone or anything. Instead one follows their own path because we are not sheep that need to be led by the nose. No god, no collective or society, no greater good is superior to a flesh and blood individual whose spontaneous actions are the driving force that manifests things in the real world.

This is the meaning of the reversed pentagram. As the British writer Auberon Herbert stated:

Auberon Herbert wrote:The individual is King, and all other things exist for the service of the King.- Auberon Herbert

The ideas of the enlightenment thinkers from the 17th and 18th centuries were taken from the teachings of the inverted pyramid i.e that the individual is king, and more important than the collective. This resulted in the realization that freedom is intimately linked to the individual rights of life, liberty, and property.

Contrary to popular belief, insensitivity to the plight and suffering of others is not what motivates the supporters of individual rights. Instead, it is the realization that by empowering ourselves life improves for everyone. A free world is a place where people can thrive. 

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