Why the Old Hate the Young
January 24, 2011
In 1712 or thereabouts, a slave owner gave a speech so memorable that it was transcribed and named after him. The "William Lynch Speech" instructs slave owners on the control of slaves. It worked well in 1712, and many African American Studies scholars believe its principles apply today.
Those professors are right, although the William Lynch Speech has been applied universally.
If you've been following the headlines lately, you'll see that the media has turned Baby Boomers against Millienials - who are all slackers, losers, etc. It's usually middle and working class people who repeat these memes.
This meme - that the young are lazy and worthless - is powerful because of who has created it, and who has repeated it, and who has applied it. (When studying morality, always ask: Who created the morality? Who does the morality serve? Always the answer to the second question will be the same was the answer to the first!)
Who has created the meme? Simple. The rich. Who repeats this meme with sincerity rather than cyncism? Middle-class and other working stiffs. Who applies this meme? Surely not the rich.
There are two places where you can still make Real Money - Wall Street or Silicon Valley. How do old, rich men make so much money? They profit off of the young, while allowing the young to profit off the old.
Old men have money and discretion. Young men have energy and brilliance. When united, people get rich. Facebook was started by a teenager, while being funded by much older men. Facebook employees - like everyone working at a start-up - work insanely long hours. The lazy kids I read old middle class men complain about aren't in the Valley, at least.
Yet old guys - middle class stiffs who will never have nine-figure net worths - hate young people. The same people who created the meme that the young are lazy and worthless have kept all of the best labor to themselves. It's genius.
Middle class debt slavery is, fortunately, superior to black slavery. That said, the principles of enslavement are universal. Turn the slaves against each other. While the slaves are fighting each other, profit from their dissention.
Humanity has not evolved much since 1712, when this speech was presented:
Gentlemen:
I greet you here on the bank of the James River in the year of our lord, one thousand seven hundred and twelve. First , I shall thank you, the gentlemen of the of the colony of Virginia, for bringing me here. I am here to help you solve some of your problems with slaves. Your invitation reached me in my modest plantation in the West Indies where I have experimented with some of the newest and still the oldest method for control of slaves. Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious KING JAMES, whose BIBLE we CHERISH, I saw enough to know that our problem is not unique. While Rome used cords or wood as crosses for standing human bodies along the old highways in great numbers, you are here using the tree and the rope on occasion.
I caught the whiff of a dead slave hanging from a tree a couple of miles back. You are losing valuable stock by hangings, you are having uprisings, slaves are running away, your crops are sometimes left in the fields too long for maximum profit, you suffer occasional fires, your animals are killed, Gentleman,...You know what your problems are; I do not need to elaborate. I am not here to enumerate your problems, I am here to introduce you to a method of solving them.
In my bag, I have a fool proof method for controlling your slaves. I guarantee everyone of you that if installed it will control the slaves for at least three hundred years. My method is simple, any member of your family or any OVERSEER can use it.
I have outlined a number of differences among the slaves, and I take these differences and make them bigger. I use FEAR, DISTRUST, and ENVY for control purposes. These methods have worked on my modest plantation in the West Indies, and it will work throughout the SOUTH. Take this simple little list of differences and think about them. On the top of my list is "AGE" but it is only there because it starts with an "A"; The second is"COLOR" or shade; there is INTELLIGENCE, SIZE, SEX, SIZE OF PLANTATION, ATTITUDE of owner, whether the slaves live in the valley, on a hill, east or west, north, south, have fine or coarse hair, or is tall or short. Now that you have a list of differences, I shall give you an outline of action- but before that, I shall assure you that DISTRUST IS STRONGER THAN TRUST, AND ENVY IS STRONGER THAN ADULATION, RESPECT OR ADMIRATION.
The black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands.
Don't forget you must pitch the old black VS. the young black males, and the young black male against the old black male. You must use the dark skinned slaves VS. the light skin slaves. You must use the female VS the male, and the male VS, the female. You must always have your servants and OVERSEERS distrust all blacks, but it is necessary that your slaves trust and depend on us.
Gentlemen, these kits are your keys to control, use them. Never miss an opportunity. My plan is guaranteed, and the good thing about this plan is that if used intensely for one year the slave will remain perpetually distrustful.