Problems with Internal Enslavement

The idea of Internal Enslavement, or IE, has always amused me. While IE does serve a very good purpose, it cannot stand alone. The proponents of IE are under the impression that a state of slavery can be created through mental mechanisms alone. There is not a single shred of psychological or historical evidence to bolster this delusion, and considerable counter evidence to discard it, but being the sheeple that they are, they follow the herd and continue to pretend that IE not only closely approximates slavery, but that it actually is slavery.




There is a way to make a slave. No, let me rephrase that. In this modern age where there is no legal backing to slavery, there is one and only one way of making a slave that can, if its owner wishes, be trusted to function in the outside world without bolting to the nearest authority the second such an opportunity arises.


This is not a training regimen, but rather a formula. This formula has been honed and perfected for thousands of years by military and religious institutions. This method is so effective that even police interrogators use a modified and greatly abbreviated version of it in order to secure information from suspects.


The first stage is called by a variety of names; red phase, breaking, unfreezing, softening up, etc. Regardless of what you call it, it contains more than one of the following from this incomplete list: Physical isolation, removal of social support structures (ie:family & friends), disorientation, various levels of exhaustion, control of diet and elimination, devaluation of ones past life. 


The transition between the first and second stage is blurry at best, as there is a certain continuity of tactics. The second phase consists of indoctrination, the insertion of reward & punishment, rigid control of environment & time, singular information source, devaluation, mental and/or physical coercion, behavior control, removal of all personal boundaries & privacy, repetitive mantras.


The third stage is one of incorporation. Having learned that total compliance is rewarded and that non compliance is punished, the subject begins to assimilate the conditioning out of necessity. Hypnosis is sometimes employed in this stage. The subject is forced to reevaluate their old beliefs. Information sources contrary to the indoctrination remain forbidden. Self revelation and mental transparency are demanded at this stage.


The fourth and final stage is one of internalization. The subject is now beginning to exhibit evidence of believing the indoctrination instead of paying lip service to it in order to avoid unpleasing consequences. At this point mantras have become impulsive, it is second nature for the subject to defer to their controller, cognitive dissonance has set in  which causes the subject to reject any other way of living, and the subject will tune out or even argue against information that opposes their new world view. At this stage total control can be exchanged for daily reinforcement, ritual, and intermediate monitoring.


Do you see the flaws in IE yet? There are some serious steps missing here. By way of Underpant Gnome Economics Theory, the IE formula looks something like this; 

Internal Enslavement as Taught at TSR

The problem here is that some of the major components are missing. By way of analogy, IE is a good plane engine, but the body of the plane that houses the engine is missing. You can start the engine up, and it might even lift off the ground with some aeronautic twists and loops before it crashes into the ground and burns. Tragically though, it will never achieve true flight unless it has been properly mounted into a well crafted body. The engineering specs for that body are detailed above. One can either learn from this, or they can continue to deny reality and wonder why their 'slave' relationships ultimately crash & burn.