Preface
My dear survivor - yes I am at the outset addressing you my dear reader as such, as you, and I, and the rest of we humans already have the necessary innate, inbuilt, eon-evolved instincts for surviving a genocide (though they may want in some grooming and may correspondingly benefit from reminding) - please allow me to begin by assuring you of a central premise: you are a good person.
You know you are. Your employer, associates, friends, and family - all of them - know you are. Or, at least, they should know you are, even if sometimes you have a whiff of doubt that they do.
Remember your goodness as you read on. Keep your goodness in mind as you take steps and put measures into practice.
This goes without saying, so we need not return to this point.
Introduction
You may have developed some concern regarding what you have seen happening around you. That is, regarding comments, behaviors, restrictions, assaults, batteries, and mayhap worse, which you have seen first-hand, or heard second hand, in public and in your community, or have seen reported and messaged in social media, news media, and entertainment media. You’ve seen this messaging reflected by your employer. By your associates. By your friends. By your family members.
It may have started with some remarks and criticisms for what some may deem the small things: hobbies, pursuits, entertainments, gatherings, discussions, debates, opinions, beliefs, hygiene, health. You see anxiety in their eyes.
You see it in others. It may be vague for you now, or you may feel a germ of concern that the anxiety may be visited upon you.
It may have grown to threats for the larger things: the ability to provide and the ability to provide for. You see dread in their eyes.
You sense something may come for you, too.
It may have escalated to the ultimate impingements upon liberty, safety, and life itself. You see dilated eyes baring souls swirling with horror and paralyzing terror.
Your own physical senses and emotional modalities tingle with piercing, sympathetic fear, scratching and slashing outward to defy the entanglements.
Perhaps this is new fear. Or, perhaps, this fear has been present for some years now, as you have seen these things progress over a course of time. Or, perchance, there is a resurgence of residual from long years and decades past, renewing as simile with current and recent events.
When you consider it, what is happening, what has been happening, and what will be happening, you are desperately searching for ways to escape it and the fear you feel. You wish to survive. You wish those for whom you care to survive.
You are prepared to sacrifice, if needs must, your ego, your identity, and your individualism. When and if it comes, it may not come to that, but you are prepared nevertheless. Remember that good people with good jobs, good homes, and good families are not sheep.
You are not a sheep.
You are also smart. Street smart.
A solution must arrive in the short term, and cannot be limited to the short term. You recognize that if you do survive, if yours survives, it can happen all over again, since it has happened, and is happening. By chance, or by intent, doesn’t matter. Irrelevant. For the next time, you’d like to be better prepared. For the sake of you, and for the sake of yours.
This survival guide, firstly, is for you.
Genocide Survival Guide, Volume I
Principles of survival herein apply as well today and tomorrow as they have in the past, for well-recognized genocides and for those yet to be acknowledged formally.
The Basics
Detach. This is the most important thing, and so it comes first. Do it fully. Do it quickly. Do it now.
Live your Normal life. Entertain, if that’s what you do. Play tennis with friends, if that’s what you do. Shop. Garden. Eat well. Exercise. Read. Stroll. Go to work. Come home. Ride your bike. Visit the lake with family and go for a swim. Find a coffee house to frequent. Keep up appearances. Be a Normal. Be an arms-length, dissociated Normal, but, crucially, be a Normal.
Don’t talk about what’s happening. Don’t remark on it. Don’t allude. Don’t hint. Not to your family. Not to your friends. Not to your associates, nor to your employer. No mere plausible deniability will do. Acknowledgement is guilt by recognition. Avoid this slippery slope.
However, you must be prepared to respond pico-pithily, if someone in your circle does bring it up.
Don’t use words that invoke and imply humanity. Empathy is the enemy of detachment (see first guidance). Euphemisms are a narcotizing balm to be salved liberally over references to persons afflicted by it. “Load” is preferable when speaking of a disposal process.1 The prefix “Un” is very powerful, effectively separating Normal and Un-Normal. Metaphor is equally productive: the appendix is dirty; when inflamed, the remedy is known (and oft unsaid, but not always).
Keep the doors and windows tight. Literally and figuratively. The sights, smells, and sounds of it are offensive. Echo chambers are a useful means to keep any disruptive, unwanted, intrusions at bay. Seek them out - Normal echo chambers only - and immerse yourself.
Relish routine. Routine is Normal. You will feel better. Those around you will feel better. Turn out the lights in the proper sequence, at the correct time, each night.
Be practical. Reuse a shower head for a play pool. Build a garden by the wall; turn the soil with available ash.
Be generous. Those afflicted may be out of work: have servants, but keep the servants in line with soft-spoken, dire threats.
Be protective. Take the kids out for activities. They enjoy the lake and the river. But at the first sign of bones, turn them around and go home.
Engage, nay Lead. There is no better way to blend in with Normal than to participate. Signal and perform, along with the other Normals. If you are in the profession, gaily do your daily duties. Even better, strive for leadership. Become the envy of the Normal. Create assertions of authority to support the Normal. Engage others to lay the foundational rationale for the new order. Maximize your position.
Leadership brings us to the next section of this guide.
Advanced Perspectives
Enjoy the fruits of leadership. Leaders must be seen as leaders. Ride the horse. Drive the Mercedes. Stay in the big house. Wear the nice watch. You are in charge and your wife is the Queen. Display of power begets power. Bravado is central to maintaining your position.
Find an animal friend. Animals don’t judge. It’s easy to convince yourself they love you. Unlike humans, even partners, who can turn on you and even isolate from you when things get a little bit sideways. It’s safe to associate with an animal. The worst they can do is get sick and die, so just get another one. A horse is your solace.
Genocide is an opportunity. Auction off disowned property for the greater good. Use what’s made available to you, but clean it first. Don’t get disappointed if you don’t get the thing you envied, you will have more chances at other stuff. You may not get rich by meager gold fillings, so let the kids play with them.
Genocide takes a toll. Have a glass of schnapps to wash away the stresses of the job.
Genocide is complex. Improve the efficiency of your operation through innovation. Meticulously plan your work. Document it and explain it to others, so they may become effective participants too. Have daily meetings. On TV. Show charts. Share the progress.
Genocide is chaotic. It has entropy generation as a major side effect. This must be countered. Keep things orderly. Design, plan, and be precise in all things. Back it up with science where necessary, and with muscle when required. Logistics and simple rules to follow will help control the chaos and allow the work to progress. Stamp down sources of chaos or individuality immediately and replace them with homogeneity. Make it clear there will be consequences if even a drop of schnapps is spilled. Cancel, criticize, and disparage. Ad hominem is your weapon, too.
Genocide is ugly. Hide, But Beautify. Build impenetrable walls. Physical walls must be high. Virtual walls must be complete. Censor, suppress, and demote speech and posts that may reveal it (see third point of guidance). Beautify with shrubbery. Protect the shrubbery. There must be consequences to even your own people for damaging the beautifying shrubbery, otherwise the wall might be seen, or worse yet, the ugliness of it.
Genocide is teachable. Give the children some action figures with which to play. Let them hear and see, albeit indirectly, some of your actions. They can model that behavior and be prepared for when it is their turn.
Genocide is temporary. Be a forward thinker and look to the future. The cloud will pass and all will truly be back to Normal once goals are accomplished. With that in mind, plant apple seeds at regular intervals in the piles of ash so as to produce an orchard in time. Create new institutions so that this all becomes much easier in the future. Sprinkle the seeds of new government-corporate partnerships far and wide; though some seeds may fall on rocks, others may find accepting earth in which to take root.
Re-read the preface. For the last guidance in this volume, please re-read the preface one more time. Believe it earnestly, with fervor, and do not think too hard on other things.2
Afterword
Let me know what you think in the comments. If there were to be a Volume II, what would you suggest?
A useful illustration of successful practitioners may be found in the film Zone of Interest [2023], which has served, in no small part but not wholly, as inspiration for this guide. Additional examples from that work are included in the post, un-footnoted; they will be recognizable to a viewer of the aforementioned work.
Some thinking points:
Our societies repeatedly cycle through astonishment and forgetfulness regarding the inherent power of humans to dissociate.
Our innate flame of morality may be reduced to the weakest smolder, yet even then it has the capacity to briefly flame, showing us a future bearing the consequences of our actions. We may parley this flash into un-dissociation, c.f. on alternate reaction, the film, aforementioned.
A poignant moment in the film is a flash forward to the modern museum, where we see individual Jewish persons, in proxy form via their shoes, crutches, and brief cases, being kept (still) on the other side of a barrier, in this case windows of glass. The touchable Normal side of the window barrier is meticulously cleaned and sanitized by an army of cleaners, as if the remnants of disease from the ghetto days could leak out, while the inside contains the UN-wanted remnants. For viewing only.
I think this may be one of your best efforts, good sir.
I'm going g back to reread after applying caffeine.
This is clever. It is what happens in the movie, right -- the slippery slope into hell. What are we to do with this though? And even with this movie? Educate others so that this doesn't happen again. But that's what we did for the last 80 years and it made absolutely no difference when the Covid psyop happened. Even Naomi Klein tweeted about how much she wanted Zone of Interest to win an Academy Award -- completely oblivious to the fact that she fell for the genocidal psyop this time.