EVOLUCIÓN TECNOLÓGICA
NÚMERO DE CLIENTES EN 2007
So you've got your subject before you. It's been completely broken at this point. It's staring up at you with a rather vacuous if eager look. While it still has a mind of sorts, all its connections to what it knows as real are broken. Except the one bond that links it to you. It's not looking at you as a god. It doesn't even have the concept of “god” yet. In a very real sense you have putty kneeling before you. You are now ready to teach it to be everything you want it to be come! Ready, set, go! And the first lesson is... Yeah... you didn't think that far ahead did you? You have a general idea of what you want to do, but you have no clue how to get started. Luckily you read through this before you actually started so you will take care of that now. Stick and carrot:
Before I go further, I want to hit punishment and reward. You'll get large groups of people on both sides that say that you only need their side. They are of course idiots who have no business doing anything other than flipping burgers. The key is the use of both. Not the balance of both. The appropriate use of both. When the subject makes a mistake, punish them soundly. If they do what they are supposed to do, nothing beyond mild praise should happen. If however they make a jump forward, learning lessons faster than you're teaching them, then you should work out a good reward for them. But remember to keep it relative to their current state of living. For example a bite of tasty real food, or perhaps some honey in their next gruel. Don't spoil them. And by the same token don't go overboard on the punishment. It should be direct and to the point. You would be surprised how well standing in the corner for 20 minutes works on most people. Or kneeling on a hard floor with rice on it.
There is also a small group that feel that some sort of punishment should be administered daily. I am not of that group. Their argument is that it keeps the subject in the proper state of mind. I would argue that while it can do that, it is more likely to be counterproductive. It is unlikely that a subject will make it through a day without repeated punishments anyway. If they also know that they will be getting punished no matter what, it lessens the impact of real punishment. Of course, this doesn't mean you can't keep a list of their infractions and then punish them at the end of the “day”. But if you do this, you need to have a list of the infractions and make sure they understand what each infraction is causing which punishment.
And with both reward and punishment, you want to keep what you do for each switched up. Never let them equate an action with a result in this case. It's fine for them to know that if they do something really good that there is a fair chance they will be rewarded; you want them to know
that. But it's not good for them to know that do that thing really good, they are going to get “x”. The biggest reason is it breeds contempt for “x”, no matter if it's a reward or punishment. They know what can trigger the receiving it, so in a sense they have control over it. And if they, as less than dirt under your feet have control over it, then “x” can't be that good/bad. If you need a real world example for this, just look at any of today's prisoners in the American prison system. Cut off their cable porn and the ACLU will be screaming about human rights violations. And look at the recidivism rate.
And I'm going to say it one more time. Never, ever, punish while angry. You're not supposed to ever let them see you angry in the first place. So maintain control, move through whatever they did to anger you, then come back and punish them when you are cold.
Where to start:
Step 1 and step 2 are interestingly enough the exact same: Decide exactly what you want to form the subject into. The only difference is the timing. Before you even choose your subject, you want to have that worked out. Then you are going to go through the isolation and breaking procedures. While you are doing that, you are going to learn a lot about the subject and what skills and abilities it already has. I mentioned this before so it shouldn't be a surprise here. And this is where you repeat step 1. You have new factors to consider and need to decide if you're going to modify in any way what you originally wanted.
Now I want to emphasize here that this isn't something that should feel you need to make a quick decision on. You have the subject in a mindset you can maintain for days or weeks. It takes little work to keep it there. While you want to work this out as quickly as possible for many reasons, rushing this step and then wanting to change things later on will cost you more time.
Both times you make this decision, you must be completely “into” whatever you decide. There can be no doubt in your mind. The subject will respond to that as you take them through training. This isn't to say that they can't see you thinking things through. Just that when you make a decision, they have to know that you are going to stick to it unless something major comes up to change it. Additionally, every time you do something with the subject, you need to have the image of what you're molding them into in the forefront of your mind. Most of you know this as “keeping your eye on the ball”. Those with any art background knows it as seeing the image in the medium so you can bring it out. The keeping this focus is passed on in your demeanor and the subject will recognize it at a very gut level. This will both worry them, in that they won't be sure they can measure up, and comfort them, in that the one teaching them knows what they want. So you know what you want them to be and the skills you want them to have. Where to start. In
my opinion it's best to take our cue from those who have been doing something like this for thousands of years. So the start is:
Wax on, wax off.
I know it's become a bit of a cheesy joke, but the principle is very sound. Remember you are starting with something whose mental capacity is as close to nil as you can make it. You need to lay down a framework for it to be able to understand the higher concepts it is going to have to learn as well as giving it a goal to strive for. Additionally, like the chores that were taught in the movie were leading to things that would make him safe, these chores will become something that the subject can come back to and shield themselves with if/when the outside world starts causing problems. Figure out which are the simplest chores it can do. Things that are repetitive and easy to do. And the first things should be ones that are as low as possible that don't really accomplish anything of
lasting value. Sweeping, dusting, and scrubbing. Things like that. Set up a specific routine that they can adhere to. For example: Make the beds, clean the bathroom, clean the kitchen, and dust everything. Something they can do every day in the same order. Once they have those tasks down to perfection start moving to more difficult ones.
You should have noticed that all the examples are service oriented. This is driving home the idea that every action they are ever going to be doing is service oriented. Their entire existence must be based on their worth to you. Not to anyone else or anything else. And these should be things that need your approval to be considered done correctly. Don't be afraid to be overly demanding on these tasks as well. If you can find fault with their work, do so and punish them for it and make them do it over again until it is done right. Now obviously if what you are wanting to create is a human cow or pony or some other hu‐
animal, you may or may not want to do that sort of training until later. So instead you'll have them do things that are related to how they are going to primarily be used. Those are unusual types so I will be covering them and other animals in separate pieces. Going to keep this piece fairly generic. Just know there is no reason for a human cow not to know how to do some “human” oriented tasks. You just have to be clear that these aren't tasks a “human” does, rather they are tasks that a slave does. Once you are ready to get into actually teaching them how you want them to think and what you want them to know, remember they are as close to a blank slate as you can get but they will still have the memories of everything they have learned. It's very likely they are going to know some subjects better than you. Especially if you're like me and dates and names from history are a lost cause. Part of your prep work is putting together hard copy that you can refer to of all the stuff you're going to need to have the hard facts for. Nothing makes a student loose respect for
the teacher faster than repeatedly catching them out. And make sure you don't say something “is” and try to support it just with “because I said so”. It will work, but only temporarily. You want something that will last so work up logical explanations for everything you want to be an important part of how they think.
I'll give an example.
Posit: The peoples that were inhabiting North America when Columbus got here have no right to call themselves Native Americans nor do they have an inherent right to any of the land.
Now of course that flies in the face of everything they've been taught. Something that well entrenched in the prevailing dogma is going to bring up a great number of knee‐jerk denial reactions, many of them based on known “facts”. In truth, something as strong as this you are probably going to want to wait until later to hit them with. So you can't just say because “I said so.” You need some facts of your own.
Fact: They are descended from Asians that came over during the last major ice age.
Fact: They were not the first ones on this continent. Europeans came over earlier, known as the Clovis people. Fact: The Asians were more prolific and war like and killed off or enslaved the Clovis people when they met.
Lesson: As the Asians used superior numbers, aggression and technology to best the Clovis people, it is right that later the decedents in Europe did the same to the Asians in the Americas.
Now I didn't present this argument as something to be taken as my stance on things. Its rather an excellent example of how even a long known “fact” can be changed to teach something completely opposite to what everyone was brought up to believe. And it gives them actual
facts to support this new belief so that if they are challenged by someone else on their new belief, they don't have to fall back on “because my master said so”.
If you've done your job correctly with the breaking and regression, the subject is going to drink in everything your teach them. However do not count of them remembering it rote perfect the first time around. Or even the second. You will need to drill them repeatedly to make sure they get things absolutely correct. Remember, in some areas you are changing things they believed for a lifetime. Not the least of which is the idea that they should be free and equal to you. The teaching itself reinforces the fact that their past belief in that is absurd. There are some who ask if having a schedule of the teaching is good. I respond with “it can be, but not always”. This is for two reasons. One, you really can't know ahead of time how fast they are going to learn things. Two, the brain trains better if each lesson leads naturally on to the next one.
So even just having an “order” of things that you want to teach can get in the way. For example, if you are teaching them the proper protocols for how to respond to someone they may at some point ask how to judge what someone's status is. Now obviously this is a higher level lesson and the first instinct is to tell them to wait. But it generally makes sense to at least cover the basics so it's firmly linked to lesson just learned. You don't have to go into full detail, but give them enough that they get the general idea. Then when you get into detail later, they will be able to link it to what you said before, making the connection and understanding that much stronger.
There are those who would argue, with reason, that there really isn't a fourth phase. That the Conditioning/Training is always ongoing. The reason I separate them is because in this phase you aren't actually trying to teach them everything they will have to know. Rather you are teaching them the framework of thought that they will use to assimilate everything else,
including things they learn from someone else than you.
Which brings up to reintroducing them to the outside world. This should be done carefully. Ideally you want to just introduce them to those who understand what you're doing and agree with your way of thinking for the first step into reintroducing them to the outside world. You may have already chosen to include some of them during your breaking process, but now is the time to bring in the rest. Demonstrate that it isn't just you that views the subject like this. That there are a number of people who think just like you. Allow the subject to be around when you're discussing things with them, especially if it relates to how they should be thinking or knowledge they should know.
After you are sure that they understand you have a number of friends who are the same way, start introducing them to outside input like letting them sit at your feet while you watch the news. Watch how they react. If they start to show signs
that they are not thinking correctly, you'll need to punish and retrain before letting them view and access more. By the same token, if they show that they have learned their lessons well and are actually making reasoned arguments in favor of the point of view you want them to have, be sure to reward them.
Once they are comfortable with that and the training is moving along well, and if you are planning on having them run errands for you, it's time to start taking them places with you. To the store for what you need. To restaurants. On walks. Things where they will need to do a minimum of interaction with outside people who would likely be horrified to know what you've done to your subject. Now this is the most dangerous part so you're going to want to be completely confident that all your training up to this point is locked in solid. How far you want to take their reintegration into society is completely up to you. At this point the same advice: watch how they react at each step
and if they start to show signs of falling off the path, go all the way back to the basics of this Step. There shouldn't be a need to go all the way back to the breaking step. But part of your goal is to condition them to accept your way as the only way. You don't want to be caught up trying to train them in every little detail they will come across. You want it so that if they come across something counter to what you taught them, that they come up with their own reasons why the new piece of information is wrong and to be ignored. Old skills:
They can be very useful, profitable, and enjoyable, but there is something that must be kept in mind about them. They all have their memories concerning how and why they were learned. If you're talking about trade skills, these are probably learned in school so there isn't much to be concerned about. But if they are more personal, like music, sewing, artistry, then you probably need to give them a new reason to
have them. It's unlikely that they learned these things because they were told a future husband/wife/owner would want them to be able to do these things. So they likely have strong emotional ties as to the “why” and more importantly the “how”. The variations are too numerous to detail here, but I'm sure if you take a moment to think of any non‐trade skill you learned, there is a strong connection with previous events and people. So every time the slave uses these skills, there is a good chance they will think of these and experience the old feelings.
There are two ways that you can deal with this. The first is you can give them a new narrative as to why they learned it as well as how they were taught and who taught them. This can be a complete rewrite or just modify their recollections of specific points that change the intent. A quick example would be this:
Actually happened: Girl is taught by her mother