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DEMON CRACY
was terribly sleepy.
But Cracy did not sleep at all that night. He pondered. “Of course,”
thought Cracy, “the easiest thing to do would be to inform the ruler of this
plot and seize the young slave. He’s clearly the main source of inspiration
for the others. But that wouldn’t solve the problem. The slaves will always
have the desire to be free from slavery. New leaders will appear, and new
plans will be developed, and since that’s the case, the main threat to the
State will always come from inside the State.”
A task lay before Cracy: to develop a plan for enslaving the entire world.
He understood that it would be impossible to achieve this goal through
physical force alone. He would need to exert psychological influence on
each person, on entire peoples. He would need to transform people’s think-
ing and instill in everyone the idea that slavery was, in fact, the greatest
good. He’d need to set in motion a self-perpetuating program that would
cause entire peoples to feel disoriented spatially, temporally and conceptu-
ally. But most importantly, disoriented in terms of their normal perception
of reality. Cracy’s thought worked faster and faster, and he no longer felt his
body or the heavy shackles on his hands and feet. And suddenly, the pro-
gram arose, like a flash of lightning. He didn’t yet know the details, and he
couldn’t yet explain it, but he could already sense it, and it was astounding
in its scale. Cracy felt like the absolute ruler of the world.
The priest lay on his bunk, shackled in irons, and he was delighted with
himself: “Tomorrow morning when they lead us all out to work, I’ll give a
prearranged signal, and the head of security will see to it that I’m taken out
of the column of slaves and that my shackles are removed. I will lay out the
details of my program, utter but a few words, and the world will begin to
change. Unbelievable! Just a few words – and the entire world will submit to
me, to my thought. God really did give man a power that has no equal in the
Universe – the power of human thought. It creates words and changes the
course of history.
“An unusually fortuitous situation has come about. The slaves have read-
ied a plan for rebellion. It’s rational, this plan, and it’s clear it could lead to
a result that would be positive for them in the short run. But with just a few
