The Oligarchs' Lost Letters: The Instrument of Loyalty
A Letter On What Loyalty Has Always Truly Been
To Whom This May Reach:
“Loyalty is a curious thing. It is perceived and taught as some characteristic that makes a person good and honorable. The general populace believes loyalty is essential and a baseline in all interaction and relationships. That is why they will continue to be betrayed countless times and be perplexed every single time. We can use this to our advantage quite clearly. The promotion of loyalty as a virtue does wonders for keeping the many in your employ, or those you bestow gifts upon, doing what is in your interest. It is quite something, truly.
Give a man an extravagant gift that costs little to yourself but is worth more than everything he owns and you shall possess him and his loyalties in perpetuity. That is, until someone else comes along and offers him something larger, more extravagant, and more desirable. But assuming that does not happen, if you simply remunerate those who work for you generously, they will adore you. If you simply shower those whom you wish to control and influence with gifts of extravagance and wealth, their fealty remains to you in every situation. That is why it is such a phenomenon.
We understand loyalty as a tool and a means to an end. Something that allows a person to achieve a goal through another person with relative ease. But to the many in the populace, they have always revered loyalty as a constituent of honor, or whatever moral edifice prevails at that time. It is perplexing to me how many do not see through the facade of loyalty. It is very simple in its mechanics. Give a person incentives and benefits to stay loyal to you and you will receive influence and power tenfold the investment in them, if you pick the right person. Give those in your employ a larger salary than all your competitors, it may wound the material bottom line, but in consequence you strangle those who are your competitors in your own industry. This in turn allows you to monopolize an entire industry without ever having to engage in any unsavory tactics.
The apparent virtue of loyalty must be perpetuated throughout society, otherwise our levers of power and dominion will be diminished slowly. If we allow our control to be diminished we will cede our society over to those who wish for nothing except its destruction and extraction. They will take our society and extract everything valuable from it, then vanish as if they were never here, leaving its corpse for those who have survived.
This is why we must decimate our competition through the cultivation of loyalty, otherwise those who wish harm upon us will receive power and decimate everything our families have built.”
Always,
The Guardian
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