from: Bloodstone43956@i-mail.irs
to: Raventrap39996@i-mail.irs
date: 7518.36486
My Dear Raventrap ~
Your success in tempting your client using out-of-context passages from Our Competitor’s Book is not unexpected. One of our best strategies for centuries has been to narrow our clients’ focus to something like tunnel vision, so they can’t see anything beyond what they want to see in that hideous Book. Our most legendary temptations have involved getting some faction to believe one or two particular “verses” from The Book justified their hatred of some other faction. Their tunnel vision, further distorted by legendary tempters like your great-uncle, has brought some of our clients to resort to violence ~ never mind the fact that Our Competitor prefers them “to love their neighbors.”
There’s that word again ~ “love.” Anyone with a copy of The Book ought to know this repulsive concept permeates practically the whole tiresome tome. Yet, we can use our guile to put any thought of the real meaning of that word out of our clients’ puny minds, at least long enough for some of them to sign their contracts over to The Corporation. So, encourage your clients to believe Our Competitor’s own words completely justify their hatred of or cruelty towards…well…anyone not like them. They can easily be taught to “love” their own kind while hating anyone who doesn’t quite measure up. If you accomplish this, you will have fulfilled the Third Commandment, both by misrepresenting Our Competitor’s intentions and persuading your clients to act selfishly in His name. Just be sure to keep “What’s His Name’s” warning about not throwing the first stone out of their misbegotten heads.
One word of caution: while we can easily tempt members of certain religions to inquisitions, crusades, “holy” wars, and acts of terrorism, this isn’t our main objective. Whenever there is mass-murder we have a problem ~ many humans will die with unencumbered contracts ~ Our Competitor calls them “innocents.” He has a curious way of asserting that because these have done no wrong, He therefore has a natural “right” to their contracts. He has often referred to an arcane concept He calls, “The Law of Love.” We understand this concept even less than the word, love, so we have no idea in Hell what He means, other than that we are somehow enjoined from acquiring any of their contracts. We are thus forced to come up with other options.
As it turns out, slaughter of the “innocents” isn’t the most profitable venture for us after all. The real trick is to manipulate all the clients surrounding such events to act according to our purposes. We must aim to convince key clients who are members of certain religious factions that brutality, torture, and mass-murder are justifiable in Our Competitor’s name, and further all “true believers” must share their convictions. We can forgo all the unencumbered contracts in the world if we can claim the contracts of those who have become delusional enough to harm those who don’t live or think as they do! Make no mistake, we have been at work in this area for a long time and have managed to turn the resulting mayhem to our advantage. Not only have we acquired the contracts of killers and those who have incited them to kill, but also the contracts of those who have retaliated against them, often in Our Competitor’s name as well. Delightful! Contracts that once belonged to perpetrators of hatred, violence, and mass-murder have been the main course at many of Our Executive’s most sumptuous banquets.
Be that as it may, ordinary temptations to division have become our “bread and butter,” so to speak. The process is really quite simple ~ like dividing a thing in half, then in half again, and so on, until it has been divided into infinitesimal pieces. Our work involves maintaining the illusion of community while we herd our clients into ever smaller groups, finally isolating them as individuals. What I’m suggesting is nothing less than the ultimate strategy of “divide and conquer.” If we want the self to rule, one of the easiest ways to reach that goal is to put our clients in a position to conclude that they are all alone, on their own, so what they think and do is all that really matters. This is solipsism by isolation. If a client feels he is in a solitary condition, he might then conclude that his condition is “the way of things.” Just make sure he never wakes up to the fact that he in fact chose to be solitary, or the game’s over.
As to lines of division, I shouldn’t have to elaborate the basics. Nor should I have to restate the obvious. Temptation 101 covered the ways to imply that some kind of “preferential treatment” is giving someone else an “unfair advantage.” We all know life is unfair ~ but somehow our clients don’t. They seem to be made with a natural desire for fairness. While we suspect Our Competitor might have had something to do with it, we can’t be sure. Sometimes they can use their sense of fairness to correct a situation that really is unfair. Nevertheless, we can use their desire for fairness against them. All we need to do is turn things upside-down. Our clients’ attention can easily be diverted to minor slights and misunderstandings ~ they will bicker endlessly about such things; meanwhile they will ignore major injustices and passively allow them to continue.
You know all about divisions by social class, age, education, income, neighborhood, political party, and so on. These are important. Surely you’ve counselled many clients to avoid others who don’t share their “values” or “lifestyle.” The real fun begins when we start tempting them to exclude others based on the way Our Competitor made them. For example, He invented race and gender, not Our Executive. He somehow intended the little field mice to learn to accept and even celebrate diversity, just as He did when he made so many sub-species on the Earth. I readily admit we have no analog here. The Corporation is a place of conformity. Either you fit in or you become part of the food chain.
So, you must exploit the differences Our Competitor made. Let your clients think a black mouse is really different from a white one, or that its color somehow makes it inferior. Contend that a female mouse really is inferior to a male. As you know, these are the facts of our existence, so they must be true on Earth as well. Lead them to conclude all members of a group are bad apples because a few happen to be. Throw in presumptions about class, education, income, and the rest, and you’ll easily stir up some pretty strong false divisions based on pure prejudice.
In addition, there are innumerable ways to divide humans based on religion. Remember the century of conflict and multiple wars resulting from the so-called “Reformation?” Supposedly, those hapless morons were all following “What’s His Name,” yet, we saw to it a road paved with good intentions led to Hell for quite a few. For decades the only winner in that quagmire was The Corporation. Just get your clients started on the question of “true religion” and watch the sparks fly. It may take years for them to realize Our Competitor only wants them to follow Him and not fight about it. In the meantime, we can tempt them to all sorts of petty arguments over small matters while allowing major work to remain undone. Again, Our Competitor seems to prefer selfless commitment ~ devotion to degrading activities such as helping the sick, the poor, the captives, and the defenseless ~ completely contrary to our intuition. Our Executive requires every act to be measured in terms of the self. If a client is thinking about helping the sick or the poor, first get him to ask, “What’s in it for me?” We have a sizeable contingent of clients here below who never failed to ask that question.
Your Devoted Cousin,
Bloodstone
MurrayWorks 