Contents

Part 1

• Introduction
• Success Secret #1: The Power Success Formula
• Success Secret #2: Raise Your Mood Level
• Success Secret #2A: Tackle the Packer Factor
• Lift Your Finger!
• Stop Dinging Yourself!
• Become a 10X Performing Person!
• Learn to Think Right!
• The Money Solution

Part 2

• Success Secret #3: Overcome the Fear of Rejection
• Success Secret #4: Massive, Determined Action
• Success Secret #5: Responsibility
• Success Secret #6: Get a Winning Edge
• Some Relatively Simple Solutions for Some?
• A Billion-Dollar Business?
• Discover Where You Are
• The Decide-and-Act Shortcut
• Completing Cycles of Action
• The Core-Power Context
• Core Power: Jack Johnson, Advanced 2%er
• Increase Your Desire for Success
• Power of Choice Lessons
• Apply "The Path of Least Resistance" to Become the Creative Force of Your Life

Part 3

• Discover What You Can Control
• Influence and "Earthquake Persuasiveness"
• Learn and Apply the "80/20 Principle"
• The Small-Step Progression Principle
• The "Swing Your Bat!" Principle; Natural Helplessness
• Raise Your "Quit Threshold"
• The "Success Threshold"
• Going the Extra Mile
• Learn to Ask Better Questions
• Boost Your Decision-Making Skills
• Master "Mechanical Skills"; Learn to Do Things Right; Improve Your Sense of What Works
• ("Fail Fast") Take Action, Produce Results (Successes or Failures), Learn from the Results, and Apply What You Learn to Take More Effective Action
• MetaSuccess Principle, Quantum Leap, and Implications
• Expand Your Freedom

Part 4

• Health, Life-Extension & Biological/Physical Immortality
• Supercharge Your "Alpha Mind"
• Get Luck on Your Side
• Learned Helplessness
• The Helplessness Context
• Core-Helplessness Mentality (CHM)
• Negativity
• How to Beat Procrastination
• Overcome "Success Anorexia"

Part 4a

• Mind Control, Brainwashing, and Snapping
• Government as a Cult
• How the Second Big Inversion Happens
• The Second Big Inversion as a Control Mechanism
• Politics on Dumbtopia
• The Second Big Inversion, Obedience, and Conformity
• Smash the Idols in Your Head!
• Dehumanization

Part 4b

• Programmed for Mediocrity
• Addicted to Unhappiness
• Underachievement and Self-Sabotage
• 98%er Characteristics

Part 5

• Medical Fakery
• Heartburn: Introduction to Victimization
• How Have You Been Victimized?
• America: Freedom to Fascism
• Recognizing Victim Mentality (synonym for CHM)
• Conclusion
• Why do people fail?
• You gotta do it!
• Raise Your Energy Level
• Reboot Your Brain
• Do Rational Recovery's® "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course

Part 5a -- Fakery-1

• Understand Fakery
• Second Big Inversion and Gullibility
• Hubbard's Fakery
• Religious Fakery
• Education Fakery
• Self-Help and Actualization Fakery
• Psychiatric Fakery?
• Bill Gates' Fakery?

Part 5b -- Fakery-2

• Greenspan's Fakery?
• Political Fakery?
• IRS Fakery -- Chironian Conspiracy Created IRS!

Part 6

• The First Big Inversion
• Addicted to Unhappiness
• Psychological Reversal
• Mental Ironic Processes
• Beast Voice in the Brain (Self-Interference)
• The Second Big Inversion
• Capture-Bonding
• Human Domestication
• "Selective Blindness
• The Automatic Meaning Destroyer
• Understanding Cause and Effect
• Rational and Fallacious Thinking

The 2%er/98%er Profile and How to Become More Successful -- Part 5a

Core Power and Core Helplessness -- Freedom, Health, Life-Extension & Biological/Physical Immortality

by Frederick Mann -- 10/1/07 (under construction; first version should be completed in about 2-3 months.)

(Note on word usage: Some political words, like "government," "state," "country," "nation," "law," etc., may not represent reality very well (they are often used to mislead) -- see Political Fakery? and the "Concept Formation" and "Does the government really exist?" videos. However, it would be difficult to communicate without using such words, so I'm using "government*," "state*," "country*," "nation*" and "law*." The "*" is the equivalent of crossing my fingers, to indicate that I may be using a "fake word.")

Contents -- Part 5a -- Fakery-1

• Understand Fakery
• Second Big Inversion and Gullibility
• Hubbard's Fakery
• Religious Fakery
• Education Fakery
• Self-Help and Actualization Fakery
• Psychiatric Fakery?
• Bill Gates' Fakery?

"Among the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less." -- Samuel Johnson, 1758

Understand Fakery

There's vastly more fakery in the world than most people suspect. Why do so many people seem so eager to believe? Gullibility must be an important factor, maybe the most important factor. And what would make people more gullible? If people were "dumbed down," that would certainly make them more gullible. If they were also "brainwashed," then the combination of being dumbed down and brainwashed, could certainly make them less powerful (or more helpless), as well as more gullible.

This may be a good time to watch the video to the left: "Chaser's War on Everything: Americans." I don't know what percentage of Americans are at about the same level as the people in the top two Chaser videos. I have a suspicion it's well over 90%... maybe as high as 98%! Hopefully, many of my readers will be able to utilize this Report to upgrade themselves.

To this end, the following is an attempt to organize into a structure all the most important factors I think may contribute to gullibility:

• GULLIBILITY
  • Dumbed Down
    • Not Questioning Enough
    • Fake "Education"
    • Programmed for Mediocrity
    • Mind Control, Brainwashing, and Snapping
    • Packer Factor
    • 98%er Characteristics
    • Below Success Threshold
    • Fallacious Thinking
    • Not Understanding Cause and Effect
  • The First Big Inversion
    • Addicted to Unhappiness
    • Psychological Reversal
    • Beast Voice in the Brain
    • Self-Interference
    • Ironic Processes
    • Self-Sabotage
  • The Second Big Inversion
    • Capture-Bonding
    • Human Domestication
    • Selective Blindness
    • Slavespeak
    • Thinking that "Words have Meanings"
    • Reality Disconnect
  • Helplessness
    • Learned Helplessness
    • Natural Helplessness
    • The Helplessness Context
    • How Have You Been Victimized?
    • Victim Mentality
    • Core-Helplessness

If you're a gullible -- someone who believes parents, teachers, preachers, "psychics," "spiritual gurus," politicans, etc. -- then you'll hopefully be able to use the above outline to become less gullible.

Second Big Inversion and Gullibility

It's particularly important to understand and appreciate how the Second Big Inversion is related to gullibility:

• At an early age, the minds of all children who "become socialized," "snap into" or "cave in to" "subjective social reality."
  
  
• After the Second Big Inversion, particularly in the areas of religion and politics, rather than using their senses to discern reality, they use "subjective social reality." They come to believe in all kinds of things they can't verify with their senses. They believe all kinds of things, because "everybody knows...," "my parents or teachers say...," "I saw it on TV...," etc. Their ability to use their senses to discern reality is impaired, particularly in the areas of religion and politics. Can you see how this phenomenon can make people much more gullible?
  
  
• Practically everyone undergoes experiences related to their parents, schooling, jobs, and taxation that can be understood as Capture-Bonding. People are forced into a "captee" role and tend to bond with their "captors." This is also called the "Stockholm syndrome." To the degree that captees bond with their captors, they believe them -- and become more gullible. To a greater or lesser extent, captees may get to "love" their captors. What if most "love" for preachers, politicians, etc. can be attributed to the "Stockholm syndrome at work?"
  
  
• Practically everyone also undergoes Human Domestication. Their parents, teachers, bosses, tax collectors, etc. provide them with rules they're forced to follow. Many become like "obedient slaves," in at least some respects. More or less violent forms of punishment are used to keep captees obedient. Obedient captees are more likely to believe their captors -- making them more gullible.
  
  
• Learning a language and accepting all its words (at "face value") as valid is a most important part of the Second Big Inversion. Often, when a child does something his parents don't like (even if he didn't really do anything wrong), they call him "naughty." The word "naughty" is designed to help parents exert "authority" over their children. It establishes a power relationship. If the child accepts the word "naughty" as valid, it immediately puts the parents at an advantage and the child at a disadvantage. The child "learns" that if the parents say "naughty," then the child should feel "guilty" and not get caught again doing something his parents don't like (maybe because it causes them a minor inconvenience). This is the family equivalent of the "judge" calling his victim a "lawbreaker" or a "felon," when the victim didn't hurt anyone or cause any damage. I'm not referring to real crimes here, but to instances where the victim is only "guilty" of something the "authorities" don't like. The words -- "authorities," "judge," "guilty," "lawbreaker," "felon" -- are all designed to give some people power over others. They essentially provide advantages to captors and disadvantages to captees. This phenomenon is covered in detail in #TL07A: The Anatomy of Slavespeak. Another such word is "taxpayer." If you accept this word (at its "face value") as valid, and as a legitimate designation of your "status," then you automatically assume an inferior status, compared to the superior status of the "authorities" and their "tax collectors." There are thousands of such words, which if accepted (at their "face value") as valid, provide advantages to captors and disadvantages to captees. (Scientologists used to (and probably still do) call non-scientologists "wogs." If a member wants to leave Scientology, they can say: "There must be something wrong with you, if you want to run away to become a hopeless wog with no future!" In the same vein, in 1851 Samuel Cartwright "discovered" that slaves didn't run away because they wanted to be free, but because they suffered from a previously unknown "disease" called "drapetomania!" -- See the Szasz video to the left.) A major part of recovering from the Second Big Inversion is to clear out Slavespeak from your brain.
  
  

• Practically all children (and older people), when they learn a language, fall into the trap of believing that "words have meanings." But what if the meanings are not in the words, but in the brains of individual humans? If words have meanings, then where are the meanings? Are they in the pixels, the ink, the soundwaves, or somewhere else? What do the meanings look like? How do you perceive them? Consider the Zulu word "ixaxa." If it has a meaning, what is it? Where is the meaning? What does the meaning look like? If you knew the meaning, would the meaning be something in reality, or something in your brain? Could some of us have similar or corresponding meanings in our brains for certain words? Could my ability to send and receive "familiar words" (those for which I have meanings in my brain) enable me to communcate with others for whom the words are also familiar (they have meanings similar to mine in their brains for the words)? For more details on this, see #TL50A: Semantic Rigidity, Flexibility, and Freedom and the Automatic Meaning Destroyer.
  
  
• Switching to using "subjective social reality" (rather than the senses) as a means to discern reality, automatically results in Selective Blindness, particularly in the areas of religion and politics. A psychological defense mechanism may also be involved: In order to "make it OK with yourself" (to feel "comfortable") to live as a "domesticated slave" in some respects, you may "shut off your consciousness" to certain aspects of your life. Most people deny that any of the above has happened to them. This automatically involves more Selective Blindness.
  
  
• The Second Big Inversion may result in a vague or even strong feeling of dissatisfaction (who really wants to be a "domesticated slave?"), and a "hope of being saved" -- rendering victims wide open to "SHAM artists" of all kinds: cults, "self-help gurus," "psychics," "spiritual teachers," preachers, financial advisors, "coaches," politicians, etc.
  
  
• A most important consequence of the Second Big Inversion stems from the combination of switching to using "subjective social reality" as a means to discern reality and learning a language such as English. To practically all victims of the Second Big Inversion, some of the symbols in their heads become more "real" to them than reality itself -- see Stefan Molyneux's video Does the xgovernmentx really exist? Typical victims of the Second Big Inversion have great difficulty in realizing that "xgovernmentx" is a symbol in their heads -- and what can be perceived with their senses that exists in reality are mainly people, buildings, computers, papers, and weapons. For typical victims of the Second Big Inversion, "subjective social reality" tends to trump (or override) perception and logic, particularly in the areas of religion and politics. (See Political Fakery?)
  
  
• Pierre Janet (1859-1947) was a French psychologist who used the term "reality function" to describe the highest level of his "hierarchy of mental functions" -- see #TL04AB: Pierre Janet and the "Reality Function." The basic idea of the reality function is to connect with reality as far as possible. In "Conversation between Christian and Chironian" the "Chironian" demonstrates "Reality Connect," while the "Christian" demonstrates "Reality Disconnect." (The videos in the left column, starting with "Bush Demonstrates Reality Disconnect?" are indicative of Reality Disconnect. An important aspect of the Second Big Inversion is Reality Disconnect. The Second Big Inversion could also be called the "Second Big Reality Disconnect," with the following elements in terms of Janet's concepts:
  • "dissociation" or "psychological dissolution";
  • "psychological automatism... acts performed unconsciously and therefore, mechanically";
  • "fixed ideas and functions -- which have escaped personal control and perception... dissociated systems... isolated from the personal consciousness";
  • "narrowing of their field of consciousness";
  • "hypersuggestibility";
  • "dissociated parts of his mind lack the higher mental functions of critical judgement";
  • "psychological misery... [i]n later writings he placed this mental misery in the broader framework of the oscillations of the mental level which take place in all human beings";
  • "breakdown of higher mental functions";
  • "abulia... degeneration of the will";
  • "daydreaming and apathy";
  • "real parasites of the mind";
  • "diminishing... powers of personal perception";
  • "repression" (If you try to explain the "Second Big Reality Disconnect" to a typical human, he or she most likely will refuse to listen or will deny vehemently that such a reality disconnect happened to him or her.)
  Some of the above are also elements of my "First Big Inversion," which could also be called the "First Big Reality Disconnect."
  
  
• Reality disconnect and selective blindness involves a narrowing of consciousness. It's at least a partial shut down of the mind. This may result in a reduction or cessation of productive thought.
  
  
• An inevitable consequence of the Second Big Inversion is that you question fewer things and you become more of a conformist. You tend to obey "authority." Welcome to the herd!

A powerful method to aid you in connecting with reality and developing your reality function is to continuously ask yourself: "How am I experiencing this moment of being alive?" See also "Actualism" and "Introducing Actual Freedom."

Factors relating to the other main components of the "Gullibility Structure" above -- being Dumbed Down, the First Big Inversion, and feeling Helplessness -- also contribute to victims becoming wide open to "SHAM artists" of all kinds.

Hubbard's Fakery

I was involved with Scientology for several years and gained a great deal from it. There's a great deal of value in Scientology. Hubbard had some unique viewpoints, many of which can be applied for greater success -- see "The Practical Success Wisdom of L. Ron Hubbard." After I left Scientology in 1972, it took me about two years to completely deprogram myself and remove all the Scientology fakery I could identify from my brain. (By contrast, I was a libertarian-anarchist by 1977 when I discovered Lysander Spooner. It took me until 1984 to completely deprogram myself and remove all the political fakery I could identify from my brain.) See also #TL15A: The Good and the Bad.

"THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM.) [emphasis added] You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them. ...He's got to tell you lies in order to continue control, because the second you start telling anybody close to the truth, you start releasing him and he gets tougher and tougher to control. So, you can't control somebody without telling them a bunch of lies." -- L. Ron Hubbard ("Technique 88: On Control and Lying") -- for references, Google: "hubbard control lie"

The above quote does not constitute fakery. Lying is an important part of the strategies fakers use to control their victims. In the video ("Scientology: The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard," left) Hubbard claims that "Scientology is scientific because it's based on... axioms that can be demonstrated." To me, most of the "axioms" seem like pure fakery.

Scientologists are brainwashed to believe that they will gain "supernatural powers" like "ESP." Until a Scientologist demonstrates such "powers," I think we can safely assume that this is pure fakery. The James Randi Educational Foundation offers "a one-million-dollar prize to anyone who can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event." While I'm open to the possibility of "ESP" and "spiritual/mystical phenomena," as far as I know, nobody has produced any credible evidence for any such phenomena. Maybe, some day, someone will produce credible evidence and claim Randi's one-million-dollar prize. Until such credible evidence is produced, it may be better to assume that beliefs in "spiritual/mystical phenomena" are misguided attempts to escape from Core-Helplessness. See also "Actualism" and "Introducing Actual Freedom." (Until credible evidence to the contrary is produced, we can also safely assume that all supposed "psychics" and the like are fakers.)

Scientology organizations typically "capture" their customers by getting them to buy a book or luring them into doing a personality test. Then, by design or accident, "Capture-Bonding" occurs -- the first Scientologists I met were the friendliest and most pleasant people I had ever come across. Then Scientology "rules," Scientology lingo, and relative alienation/isolation from the outside world ("non-scientologists are "wogs"") are used to achieve "Domestication." Then techniques like, "If you criticize Scientology something must be wrong with you," are used to induce "Selective Blindness" to the "bad" aspects of Scientology.

It's most important to understand that people can be changed dramatically by being "placed in a situation." This is demonstrated very well in the "Power Of The Situation" video.

Religious Fakery

Religious organizations typically "capture" their customers by getting their parents to take them to church. Then, by design or accident, "Capture-Bonding" occurs -- maybe largely due to the "church atmosphere" and the music. Then church "rules" are used to achieve "Domestication." Then techniques like, "If you don't believe you'll go to Hell," are used to induce "Selective Blindness" to the "bad" aspects of the religion.

Education Fakery

See Tackle the "Packer Factor." Schools typically "capture" their customers by forcing their parents to take them to school. (If parents refuse, government* agents with guns may "take care" of them.) Then, by design or accident, "Capture-Bonding" occurs -- it's difficult for vulnerable young children to not bond with their captors. Then confinement to an artificial environment and school "rules" are used to achieve "Domestication." Then techniques like, "The teacher knows what you should learn and what's best for you," (as well as confinement to an artificial environment) are used to induce "Selective Blindness" to the real world and to the "bad" aspects of the schooling.

"In 1998 the Amsterdam-based International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement released the results of its third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), involving twelth graders from twenty-three xnationsx. In combined math and scientific literacy, the United States placed fourth from the bottom, ahead of only Lithuania, Cyprus, and South Africa, those historic hotbeds of scientific innovation. In advanced math, the United States outpaced only Austria. In physics, American kids finished dead last... Martin Seligman ("The American Way of Blame") has written powerfully of the self-esteem movement's "frightening" impact... They're taught mantras like, 'I am special,' and some of them come to believe it. A surefire recipe for violence is a mean streak combined with an unwarranted sense of self-worth"." -- Steve Salerno (SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless -- Chapter on education: "I'm OK, You're... How Do You Spell OK Again?")

Self-Help and Actualization Fakery

The book SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless by Steve Salerno has chapters on:

• "Hopelessly Hooked on Help" (Alcoholics Anonymous)
• "The Culprits" ("gurus of victimization," "gurus of empowerment," Oprah Winfrey, and Zig Ziglar)
• "False Prophets, False Profits" (Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill, Norman Vincent Peale, Thomas Harris, Jim Rohn, Og Mandino, Tony Robbins, L. Ron Hubbard, Richard Carlson, Deepak Chopra, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hanson, Robert Fulghum, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, John Gray, Marianne Williamson, Helen Schucman, Suze Orman, and James Jorgenson)
• "Dr. Phil McGraw"
• "Tony Robbins"
• "Ya Gotta Want It" (Tommy Lasorda, Knute Rockne, Vince Lombardi, Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Rick Pitino, Mike Krzyzewski, Kenneth Blanchard, Spencer Johnson, Stephen Covey, Bill Walsh, Mia Hamm, Karlene Sugarman, Jeff Greenwald, and Kevin Elko)
• "Put Me In Coach, I'm Ready to Pay" (Jane Ellen Sexton, Jeffrey Auerbach, Richard Brendan, Thomas Leonard, Sandy Vilas, Patrick Williams, Mark Gibson, Martha Beck, Elaina Zuker, Cheryl Weir, John and Seran Wilkie, Lester Levenson, and Hale Dwoskin)
• "Killer Performances: The Rise of the Contrepreneur" (Joseph Jennings, Michael Franzese, Anne Kelley, Troy Evans, Steve Arrington, Ron Cohen, Sam Knott, Bill Jahoda, Kevin Mitnick, Def Con, and Ned Rollo)
• "You Are All Diseased" (Recovery movement -- Alcoholics Anonymous, etc. -- disease model)
• Etc.
• "Conclusion: A SHAM Society."

I suspect many "SHAM pushers" use variations of the formula: Scientology organizations typically "capture" their customers by getting them to buy a book or luring them into doing a personality test. Then, by design or accident, "Capture-Bonding" occurs -- the first Scientologists I met were the friendliest and most pleasant people I had ever come across. Then Scientology "rules," Scientology lingo, and relative alienation/isolation from the outside world ("Non-Scientologists are "wogs"") are used to achieve "Domestication." Then techniques like, "If you criticize Scientology something must be wrong with you," are used to induce "Selective Blindness" to the "bad" aspects of Scientology.

"If the demand is high enough, all kinds of muck will flow into the market." -- John Kotter

"...[T]his is an industry that thrives on repeat business." -- James Randi

As far as I know, nobody provides the means for typical 98%ers (except maybe for a very small fraction) to become significantly more successful. If you walk into a bookstore, you usually find that the biggest section is "psychology/self-help." No matter how many thousands of books there are, typical 98%ers won't find anything they can apply to become significantly more successful. No matter how many "motivational" seminars, "self-improvement" workshops, etc. they attend, nothing works for the vast majority. They may feel good for a few days, but it wears off quickly, and they return to their former habits. So the demand is insatiable, there's practically no supply that works (except for a small percentage), and the "SHAM pushers" cash in bigtime!

There's an online parallel of the offline "SHAM pushers" -- Internet "moneymaking gurus" who earn thousands and even millions selling "marketing and moneymaking expert information" mostly to typical 98%ers, who lack the ability to apply it, and who cannot learn from the information how to apply it sucessfully. So the demand is insatiable, there's practically no supply that works (except for a small percentage), and the "online SHAM pushers" cash in bigtime!

Possibly, a major reason for the relative lack of success of "SHAM pushers" is that they've failed to sufficiently address helplessness -- see The Helplessness Context and Core-Helplessness Mentality (CHM).

Psychiatric Fakery?

The Birth of modern Psychiatry: Part 1 of 4

The Birth of modern Psychiatry: Part 2 of 4

The Birth of modern Psychiatry:Part 3 of 4

The Birth of modern Psychiatry: Part 4 of 4

Psychiatry: Fraudulent Cult

Psychiatry: Perverted Instrument to Control YOU?

Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 1

Mental Health Liberation and Anti-Psychiatry Movement Part 2

Tom Cruise and Matt Lauer Discuss Psychiatry

Frederick Mann: In general, I think Tom Cruise hits the nail on the head about psychiatry. I share his concerns about "psychiatric drugs"; I think they should be avoided like the plague. Cruise briefly mentions vitamins. In general, I think supplements are much safer than prescription drugs. The drug companies benefit most if they can get people hooked on drugs with side effects. The typical doctor will then prescribe extra drugs for the side effects... I think Cruise is completely mistaken about "no chemical imbalances." To validate this claim, every human on earth would have to be tested for "normal chemical balances." It would take just one person with an imbalance, to refute the "no chemical imbalances" claim. Considerable research indicates that low levels of the neurotransmitters noradrenaline and serotonin (a chemical imbalance) in the brain are associated with feelings of helplessness. In his "7 Keys to UltraWellness" video Mark Hyman, M.D. refers to "hormonal imbalances" -- a chemical imbalance -- see Raise Your Mood Level and Health, Life-Extension & Biological/Physical Immortality.

Bill Gates' Fakery?

Microsoft Vista Sucks

Alex Jones: "I Hate You Bill Gates!"

Why does MS Windows suck?

The Hidden Agenda for World xGovernmentx

Is it possible that Bill Gates and Microsoft use strategies with the elements below? (I'm just enquiring; not making any accusations. I have no evidence to suggest that Bill Gates and/or Microsoft have ever engaged in anything underhanded! As far as I know for sure, they're clean as a whistle! Some of what Alex Jones says (above) and Norman Dodd says (right) and John Taylor Gatto's hint about "foundations running politicians" (left column, Part 1) may be "paranoid conspiracy theory" and off the mark.)

• Use any means, fair or foul, to capture customers and lock them into MS. Sign contracts with computer vendors to sell only PCs preloaded with crappy MS software. Ensure as far as possible that vendor personnel know only about MS PCs and nothing about the rest of the computer world -- selective blindness. The last time I bought a new PC, the salesperson tried very hard to sell me security software. I told her, "The first thing I do is clear all the MS crap out of my computer; then I install Linux, which doesn't have the security holes of MS programs; so I don't need your security software." She had no idea what I was talking about and looked at me as if I was an alien from another planet!
  
  
• Ensure that MS software is riddled with bugs that gradually slows down customers' computers and also cause crashes with increasing frequency, so customers will gradually become more and more disgusted and feel compelled to "upgrade" -- Google: microsoft sucks
  
  
• Use any means, fair or foul, to "take care" of as much of the competition as possible -- Google: microsoft dirty tricks
  
  
• Use BSA lawyers to shake down corporate customers accused of software piracy and force them to either cough up in the form of expensive, long-term contracts (to use MS products only?), or face lawsuits that would put them out of business -- Google: BSA blackmail

What's the difference between Bill Gates and L. Ron Hubbard? Bill Gates is several thousand times as cunning!

For More Fakery, see:

• Greenspan's Fakery?
• Political Fakery?
• IRS Fakery -- Chironian Conspiracy Created IRS!