The Bureaucracy of Vice

People don't need to belong, at least not in any absolute sense. Belonging is a transitory characteristic. What people truly need is an adversarial force, something both attractive and repulsive. It needs to be secret enough to allow for practically anybody to be a part of it, and known to the point that there is general awareness without general understanding. It must be a Devil of some kind.

The solution to this problem, the solution that gives people the force to fight against, to direct their animosity, is vice. A vice is a disapproved behavior that makes people happy. Because it makes people happy, potentially anybody could practice the given vice, and because it is disapproved, people will talk about it without having any true understanding of it. Vice is a mindset and a behavior - therefore, by understanding it a person would be tacitly approving of it.

The true beauty behind vice is that it, as a thing to be defined, can be controlled. One thing can be vice for a while, then come back into fashion in order to make room for other vices. Any given narcotic, behavior, expression, or activity can become a vice, provided it is of no great consequence to the operation of society one way or another.

Most importantly, the villification of certain behaviors or activities give people the opportunity to believe that they are becoming better. By casting off the illusory shackles of the "insidious" vice, a person feels as if they are in more control of their life, truth be where it may. Thus, people can the symptoms gain grasp and control over life without actually having it.

Provide what people hate, and they will love you.

The Bureaucracy of Apathy

Change is a process of going from order to disorder. Ordered systems are a reflection of the chaos that has occured to formulate them - chaos naturally decends into order, as chaos in itself requires energy to maintain while order requires stagnation. Thus, all chaos will decend into stagnation and all changes will lead to the identical system being repeated.

There is no purpose to change. It only achieves inefficiently and in misery what we deal with normally anyway. Oversight, therefore, is the process by which the status quo is maintained. The status quo is not a device of hatered or sloth, but rather a mechanism by which the normal operating state can be maintained against those who are naive enough to think that change brings progress.

The preferred mechanism for oversight is to maintain an obstructive minority - a small group not given to bureaucratic inefficiencies that can work bureaucratic inefficiencies into the larger bureaucratic system. It is the natural state of any bureaucracy to retain its present form, so therefore all that is required is to encourage the bureaucracy to retain its natural condition.

Life works best when nothing happens.

The Oligarchopoly

Any ordered system has an organization. We will begin to present the unique organization of the Ataraxia Foundation. The highest echelons of leadership are not the Bureaucracies. The seven Bureaucracies exist in such remission within the Foundation as a whole that their presence is never detected, but their actions are always felt.

The Seven Bureaucracies each deserve a separate treament, but following is a basic description.

Bureaucracy of Apathy: The Bureaucracy that handles oversight.
Bureaucracy of Arrogation: The Bureaucracy that handles development, science, and knowledge.
Bureaucracy of Eidolons: The Bureaucracy that maintains media.
Bureaucracy of Iconography: The Bureaucracy that dictates economic decisions.
Bureaucracy of Margins: The Bureaucracy of law enforcement, legal systems, and judiciary.
Bureaucracy of Vice: The Bureaucracy that moderates morality.
Bureaucracy of Want: The Bureaucracy that manages labor and training.

Each of these Bureaucracies moderates society so that you do not have to. They make it possible for society to function without any person knowing the details of the ways in which the world operate. They are your salvation.

The Box of Reasons

This is not the Age of Reason. It is the Age of Reasons. This is the box of the Age of Reasons. Fit yourself within it.

The universe is 15 billion years old. Nothing is older.

The universe is 15 billion light years across. Nothing is larger.

Planck's distance is 10 to the -33 meters. Nothing is smaller.

Planck's time is 10 to the -43 seconds. Nothing is younger.

BE AT EASE

CALM YOURSELF THIS MOMENT.

If you are not calm, you will not be fully capable. Lack of calm burns energy that you don't have. Science can't explain the energy, where does it come from? If scientists can't explain it, it must be out of the domain of life as we know it. It's not your energy.

WHEN YOU ARE NOT CALM, YOU ARE STEALING FROM THE COSMOS.

A FOUNDATION OF COMPASSION WITHOUT TRUTH

HARMONY IS CHAOS.

Harmony is an event that must be achieved. Synergy, equanimity, all of these things that are the "reasonable" contentions of "free" societies are, at best, self-important conceits that are never achieved, and in all real-world situations are deceits intended to achieve the antithetical effect. Instead of allowing the deceit to continue, the Ataraxia Foundation hopes for all those out there to come forth and demand the casting off of all dignities, hope, and desire for the future. Instead, manifest yourself into an innocent state, like childhood, without need for mutuality or equanimity. All people were not created equal. People are created unequal, and you are no better.

THIS IS YOUR FOUNDATION, WITHOUT LIES OR NEED.

From all of us at the Ataraxia Foundation, let me offer a heartfelt welcome to all those who come forward expecting freedom from truth and harmony.

INVERT YOUR NEGATIVES

Do not consider yourself as needing rehabilitation. You are not disabled - enablement is a positive. There is no negative functionality. All things start from zero. You are not disabled, because you have no native capability.

DO NOT ACCEPT A NEGATIVE. THE LOWEST YOU CAN GO IS ZERO, AND THE HIGHEST IS TO DIVIDE BY ZERO.

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

THE LACUNA OF PERFECTION, NO MONEY DOWN

Now in the presses, watch the conquest of nothing begin! Staking property in the empty places of which you are unaware and over which the government has never claimed sovereignty, you will find us laboring with love to bring you one step closer to your own exemplary state. Payment begins the moment you are idealized, so what are you waiting for? You don't even need to call! We've already worked it out with you, you just don't remember.

LIKE EDEN, UNFULFILLED WITH DESIRES