PART 5 — EXCLUSIVE: ADAM LANZA SPEAKS - SUPPRESSED AUDIO
"Dominant cultures do not have to resort to cultish tactics because they have a monopoly on the most efficient mechanism of cultural infection, the raising of children. "
NOTE TO READER:
The recording below is the second part of the same video uploaded by Adam Lanza on September 7, 2011—more than a year before the Sandy Hook shooting.
As with the previous installment, this material was not created after the fact. According to a law enforcement source familiar with the case, recordings like this existed prior to the attack and were known, at least in part, to federal authorities. The FBI, that source confirmed, visited the Lanza home in the year before the shooting to speak with his mother.
That interaction never became part of the public understanding of this case.
What did become public was a much narrower conclusion: that there had been no warning, no indication, no signal that this was coming.
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The following recording was uploaded by Adam Lanza on September 16, 2011 -
“The accusations about Efilism being cult-like are presented with the implication that cults are irrational groups that propagate delusional values. I’m not going to be addressing Efilism in this video; I just want to speak about cults themselves.
Cults generally exhibit similar characteristics as outlined in ArchLord’s video. These include members yielding to an unaccountable authority that controls their behavior, using various emotionally and psychologically manipulative tactics to suppress dissent and modify the behavior and beliefs of its members, demonization, and desolation for anyone who goes against the values of the cult, along with a preoccupation with converting anyone who might be receptive. And justifying any means necessary to further propagate their ideology, including actions which are otherwise generally regarded as immoral.
Ostensibly, you start at a neutral perspective and observe a cult which exhibits these behaviors. You ask, if their beliefs had any validity, then why would they have to resort to these underhanded tactics of manipulation? Why are cults like this? A similar question to ask is why terrorists do what they do. More specifically, how their activities can relate to the activities of governments. Governments have omnipresent legal institutions and law enforcers, which serve to force or intimidate people into not behaving in ways which deviate from the fulfillment of their values.
Terrorists need to resort to attacks against civilians, kidnappings, assassinations, and other methods to have the same effect. Governments are able to project massive militaries with sophisticated equipment to foster their interests. Terrorists have to resort to methods as seen in Mumbai in 2008.
Governments have educational institutions and regulations which can inculcate values and modify the behavior of its citizens, in ways which are consistent with the fulfillment of the government’s values. Terrorists need to resort to methods like propaganda of the deed and manifestos.
I recognize that there may be a semantical issue here, but just grant it. And governments have taxes and central banks, terrorists need to resort to burglary, counterfeiting, and money laundering. I’m not trying to normatively justify terrorism, I’m just describing a difference in the operation of the two groups. If someone shares the values which the dominant government promotes, then they are not neutral when the— when they observe the activities of terrorists and dismiss the validity of their ideology because the terrorists resort to tactics that the government would never use.
Governments, already being dominant, merely have no need to resort to the tactics of terrorists because they are viewed with legitimacy and thus have their own more efficient tactics.
I suspect that most of you listening to this aren’t of the flag-waving persuasion, so I’ll assume you understand that terrorists aren’t bad people who are jealous of happy governments, and I’ll leave it at that.
This dynamic applies to its fullest extent when pertaining to cults and culture, it can — it can be seen in the way that children are treated.
Children’s free wills are suppressed and annihilated in every conceivable manner in all cultures, but I’ll just be speaking about this one.
A child’s associations, location, and every action is subject to the will of the adults around them, along with being manipulated into adopting those adults’ thoughts and opinions. Children are forced into the institution of parenting through the government which set up property rights over them. Parents’ rights is a euphemism for slaveholders rights. Perhaps I’ll elaborate on this in a future video, but the extremely concise story is this: the disease of culture begins with the selective application of emotion to manipulate children into behaving in culturally sanctioned ways.
If the child’s behavior fulfills your values, you apply an affirming emotion; if the child’s behavior deviates from the fulfillment of your values, you apply an antagonistic emotion.
This feral method is present in every interaction that children will have in the rest of its life, but there is a more complex mechanism available. Once the child is old enough, it becomes infected with language. It is primarily through this mechanism that cultural values are transmitted. This is euphemistically referred to as “teaching,” as they grow older children are progressively given more and more freedom, to the extent that they’ll contribute more and more to the propagation of the dominant cultural values.
Some parents might say, “But I can allow children to flourish free from coercion, so that they can become themselves,” or something like that. Sure, you might not teach your child religion, but what are you going to do when you realize that your child isn’t going to speak your language? Or that it doesn’t want to wear clothes? Or violates the cultural system of property rights? And just, in general, isn’t abiding by the structure of your society? It’s impossible to be an egalitarian parent because you will inevitably coerce your child into behaving in ways which are within the culturally defined parameters. That is the entire purpose of children under any culture. You’re not doing your children a favor by bringing them into existence, children exist solely for the propagation of the values of the adults who own them.
Your culture has taught you language, art, religion, rights, morality, your activities, cultural context for interactions, the economic structure in which you live, innumerable compartmentalized meta-metaphysical categories of everything imaginable. And do you think that you’re somehow a neutral observer when you dismiss a cult for employing manipulative tactics?
Cults behave in that way because they are trying to subvert the dominant culture and propagate their own cultural values. Dominant cultures do not have to resort to cultish tactics because, since they have the luxury of being viewed with legitimacy, they have a monopoly on the most efficient mechanism of cultural infection, the raising of children. Yes, the belief systems of all cults are completely delusional, but it has nothing to do with their manipulative tactics. All cultural values are delusions which exist entirely as a consequence of coercive impositions.
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