Many consider The Willie Lynch Letter urban legend. Its lack of suitable authentication does not diminish its instructive nature.
This letter outlines the most efficient, and least troublesome, means for mass control of a closed society.
Its core idea: Employ difference to feed division.
Oversight Governance is vertical. Control is horizontal.
Refined, the principles of the plantation of yore are the penultimate vehicle of governance on that plantation known abroad as these United States of America.
This cauldron we stir and serve unto them.
Read the letter again, this time with a broader perspective.
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People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world’s diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.
~Youssou N’Dour, Musician
from the Starbuck’s series
The Way I See It #21
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Tuesday, May 12th 2009 at 7:46 am |
Jim, I’m coincidentally citing the Screwtape Letters in a conversation I need to have later today with a good friend of mine; outside of my own recollection of it yesterday afternoon, yours is the first mention of it that I’ve come across in a few years!
Monday, May 11th 2009 at 12:25 pm |
Wow. I’d never seen this letter before, Oz. Thanks for posting it.
The letter is strikingly similar in tone to Screwtape’s letters to his dear nephew Wormwood, offering advice on how to ensure the damnation of “the Patient.”
C.S. Lewis imagined a bureaucracy of demons employing a series of tactics to keep us divided – from God, from love, and from one another. If effective, these tactics would have impact for eternity.
William Lynch appealed to a bureaucracy of slaveowners, imploring them to use a series of tactics to create divisions within Black ranks. If effective, these would become “self re-fueling and self generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.”