A Truth in Advertising Version of the Introduction to Francoism

[ChairmanHal]

An Introduction to Francoism

What is Francoism?

Named after the revolutionary, Comrade Francos Spain, who if you actually know anything at all about the real Franco’s Spain, you would understand that Francisco Franco was a vehement anti-Communist and would have probably shot anyone calling him ‘comrade’, Francoism has been the guiding ideology of Pacifica since the August Revolution of 2003: a conflict that saw an oligarchy rise from the dust on the backs of thousands of inexperienced nation rulers, natural followers, and those that saw the possibilities for later social and political climbing, to collectively become the ruling body of the most powerful territory in the known world. For the first time in history an oligarchy had organized themselves in a manner to keep down the oppressed, swept aside basics rights using a faux system that claimed to put the oppressed in charge, while creating a massive apparatus to keep the oligarchy in power, as the long exploited Pacifican Nation rose up against its would-be masters and overthrew those that had long ruled over them and simply replaced one set of masters for another. If this all sounds too much like the story of the USSR, you would be correct—because it was pretty much lifted from an old Soviet propaganda book. The following years saw invasion after invasion as the oligarchy and its willing allies attempted to strangle every attempt to challenge them. It was in this context that Francoism developed, not in words, but in practice: born in a baptism of fire, based on a regrind of some idealized version of real life oppressive regimes, using whoever and whomever was useful to them, no matter how cruel, unjust, or thuggish they were—after all, within the walls of Pacifica, the well tended sheep saw the world outside as filled with savages, inferior to them.

Over time Francoism continued to grow as it learned, adapted and spread, and today is a vast a pile of often contradictory words that can be interpreted however the oligarchy sees fit. At its core, Francoism is pseudo science at best, at worst stuff that was made up as people went along, a guide to the false emancipation of the individual, pretending to overcome the physical and intellectual enslavement that has claimed so many “savages” outside Pacifica, and bringing us to a point of total sacrifice of freedom in the name of security, fulfilling the prophet words of Benjamin Franklin, who stated that those that sacrifice freedom for security shall enjoy neither. It simultaneously creates an environment for the oligarchy, where everyone can pursue their desires and achieve their full potential if they can successfully navigate the byzantine politics, manage to keep their real issues from being exposed, and have a bit of luck. In this way Francoism is a living ideology, not too dissimilar from the Soviet regime in 1985. From the decisions taken by the newest applicant in the most unassuming of positions, to those taken by the Emperor, Francoism shapes everything you see around you in the Order today, because freedom in Pacifica is and always has been an illusion.

Francoism and the World

The Francoist analysis of our world is complex, but it can nevertheless be summarized in simple terms. The natural world that we see around us is filled with brutal savages, people who will each your children if you dare leave the embrace of civilization: a world where no law, no morality, and no right or wrong exist. In other words, a world of people who can be exploited for political purposes, stabbed in the back with impunity, manipulated into fighting each other while we sit laughing on the sidelines. Individuals are pawns, worthless and only allowed to exist because they aren’t in the way. The moment they get in the way, savages in so-called alliances are turned loose on them. GGA. FAN. GOONS. \m/. IRON. Echelon. All are equally interchangeable parts and equally savage and disposable if they begin to think they are our equals. The savages outside of Pacifica are free do whatever they will, raid whomever and whenever they will and to take from others whatever they desire. We understand this and encourage it, even as we publicly condemn them. It is absolutely critical that the sheep believe that nations exist, in short, in a constant war and fear outside Pacifica so that Pacifican nations think they have no alternative but to stay in Pacifica. With the perception of the constant threat of attack bearing down on them and no reliable comrade to help, Pacifican nations cheerfully forego developing as quickly as they could or pursuing their desires so that they may be safe; all they can do is endeavor to survive against the nearly insurmountable odds that any one of them will rise to the level of the oligarchy and have real power. The perception of chaos outside of Red Team must persist. Emancipation from the order must be denied. Those that leave it ostracized and condemn to perpetual attack, least the masses find out the truth.

Francoism and the Order

The Order came to our world from an established position, where the Faux Revolution and its experiences had shaped its institutions and culture, and it is this that put it in a unique position to achieve the illusion of freedom to members of Pacifica. Developed out of the very phony, artificially created conflict of nature and shaped by paranoia, the Order was able to boast the institutions necessary to fully enslave the individual -- institutions that are easy for an alliance to develop today if they truly recognize the rights of the individual and aren’t simply creating the illusion of rights. We pool our sovereignty under an Emperor and an oligarchy in what is absolutely an autocratic fashion, fundamentally denying a democratic way of life, with the Emperor acting as a funnel through which the will of Pacifica flows as a single, powerful voice. In this manner we have encouraged chaos and conflict outside of Pacifica while surpassing it within Red Team. This has allowed us to develop as a truly united, oppressively bureaucratic alliance, where the best rarely rise and everyone is free to pursue their desire to snub their nose at others, caught in the illusion that they are superior, when in fact they are a superior breed of sheep, nothing more or less.

Francoism and the Order have thus been defined by their abililty to sponsor chaos and has kept others in disarray when the mood strikes them. Francoism has given us the lies backed by pseudo intellectual gibberish that are required in order to steer ourselves through the bodies of the barbarians, and our Francoist history, also known as propaganda wearing a thin mask, has given us the ship capable of crashing through the waves to being laughed at by the Karma coalition when they defeated us utterly and completely as we were defeated at the end of Great War I.

Francoism and You

Francoism has been continually developed through the experiences of a Nation over its near five year history; but it is not necessary to know every detail and concept: truth is, no ne knows what it actually is, we just sort of went through some political science texts and leafed through them one day and made up the rest as we went along. Thus, Francoism must be backed by antiintellectual dogma -- it is a way of life, must as Communism and Nazism were ways of life. While learning concepts such as permanent revolution, autocratic oppression and the paradox of freedom as we say it should be interpreted will help you to understand the Order and the world around it, it is only through your daily experiences, struggle and consumption of internal propaganda that you will truly come to know Francoism, and yourself become a Francoist.

[Sandwich Controversy]

Much better, and from ChairmanHal no less.

[Prime minister Johns]

Not another one of these...

Well at least this one has good spelling and grammar, for a negative propaganda piece.

[Vilien]

I hope to never, ever have to agree with another ChairmanHal post as much as I've agreed with this one.

[D34th]

Tygaism > Francoism(Whatever it is)

[wickedj]

This looks like the jibberish Jack has been spamming channels with... Just saw his thread...nevermind lol

Edited December 19, 2009 by wickedj

[hizzy]

Get a 2nd job Hal. Or a hobby. Even a blow-up doll works.

[Big Z]

I think Doitzel finally broke Hal!

[President Obama]

I actually agree with this for the most part.

Edited December 19, 2009 by President Obama

[supercoolyellow]

When I try to understand Francoism in CN I feel like I'm trying to nail jelly to a wall. This explains a lot, of course from the cynical position.

[wickedj]

Get a 2nd job Hal. Or a hobby. Even a blow-up doll works.

I've got a huge jug of pennies he's welcome to spend his day counting

[Bob Janova]

Is this not the original?

[Tromp]

Ohh, thsi one was well thought out.

The only thing I disliked was:

Thus, Francoism must be backed by antiintellectual dogma -- it is a way of life, must as Communism and Nazism were ways of life

Seems a bit of a stretch.

[SiCkO]

Interesting, put pretty obvious propaganda

I await Moldavi's response

[ChairmanHal]

I think Doitzel finally broke Hal!

Nahh...but I do feel sorry for him. He was part of the ruling oligarchy. The leaders of the one true civilization. He not only drank the kool-aid, he asked for seconds.

He is the CN version of Guy Montag. He did everything he was told to do and then one day he accidentally grew a conscious. When the leaders of the one true civilization condemned him to roam the wilderness for ever, he vowed to destroy them. Not because his opinions had changed regarding us barbarians, of course.

Even now he mocks me because I had the gall to point out his hypocrisy. His hate makes me feel...accomplished.

[Sigrun Vapneir]

As Tromp points out, a bit of a Godwin fail there at the end.

Still, I got a chuckle. And props for writing complete sentences and real words. We need more of that here.

[ChairmanHal]

Ohh, thsi one was well thought out.

The only thing I disliked was:

Seems a bit of a stretch.

Less of a stretch than you might think...both Communism and Nazism (really Fascism as a whole) depended upon a compliant population who were convinced that theirs was the superior civilization, surrounded by less enlightened, barbaric ones. When you come to the realization that the "barbarians" aren't, you begin to question the orders of your superiors. In much the same way, Francoism depends upon compliance and unquestioning loyalty. Its methods discourage rational thought and critical examination through the use of propaganda aimed both at external and internal audiences, as well as the manipulation of history to create the illusion that there is only one true path. All three political philosophies are therefore anti-intellectual and in the case of Francoism, derivative.

[ChairmanHal]

As Tromp points out, a bit of a Godwin fail there at the end.

Still, I got a chuckle. And props for writing complete sentences and real words. We need more of that here.

The problem was declaring every thread that mentions Nazis as "Godwined" and therefore over is that it doesn't allow for a critical analysis of *why* is why that brand of Fascism was particularly insidious.

But hey, at least I didn't Photoshop a Nazi propaganda painting to include my face and substitute Pacifician flags for the Nazi ones and make it into an avatar. You'd have to really have to have issues to do something like that.

[Swiper]

Am I the only one who thinks Francoism was channeling something besides Stalin or Hitler?

How about Hobbes..?

Edited December 20, 2009 by Swiper

[Sal Paradise]

Nahh...but I do feel sorry for him. He was part of the ruling oligarchy. The leaders of the one true civilization. He not only drank the kool-aid, he asked for seconds.

While I was reading that I expected "he not only drak the kool-aid, he stirred it," and was sorely disappointed. My fault for expecting some effort in wit. Asked for seconds? Surely we can do better.

[muffasamini]

In any orderly system, stability relies on the stratification of responsibility to guide, the rigidity to deflect doubt, and the cement of our common ideals. Though you may drape your governments in different facades, your systems, your governments, your charters, it is all the same. In order to quell anarchy, one must impose order. One must relinquish some rights in exchange for stability. Valhalla and any other alliance does it every day. Though you may argue that on this spectrum, between order and chaos, we go to far, it is amoral to demand the stability and structure we do. I say it is amoral to allow the doubt and chaos one must embrace to avoid it.

Francoism is an eddie of strength and order in turbulent waters.

[Aeternalis]

This is very well written. Good job

[Sigrun Vapneir]

On second thought, no, if you want an OOC discussion post in an OOC forum. Removing this entirely.

Back in character...

In any orderly system, stability relies on the stratification of responsibility to guide, the rigidity to deflect doubt, and the cement of our common ideals. Though you may drape your governments in different facades, your systems, your governments, your charters, it is all the same. In order to quell anarchy, one must impose order.

One must relinquish some rights in exchange for stability. Valhalla and any other alliance does it every day. Though you may argue that on this spectrum, between order and chaos, we go to far, it is amoral to demand the stability and structure we do. I say it is amoral to allow the doubt and chaos one must embrace to avoid it.

Your crime was not in embracing order, it was in perverting and corrupting it. With supreme power comes supreme responsibility. The emperor of the world can only take his seat with the mandate of heaven, and that mandate lasts only as long as he truly serves the greater good. When the empire becomes corrupt and perverted, when it forgets that it serves order and begins to believe that it is supreme in itself, that indeed order serves the empire instead, the mandate is withdrawn, the emperor has no legitimacy, the barbarian hordes surge and the empire crumbles. This is what happened to you and yours, muffasamini, and until you get past this self-serving slop you have been posting and come to grips with the reality your analysis will inevitably continue to be fatally flawed.

Edited December 20, 2009 by Sigrun Vapneir

[ChairmanHal]

Am I the only one who thinks Francoism was channeling something besides Stalin or Hitler?

How about Hobbes..?

Certainly you could probably make the case for it. If you look hard enough you can probably find others. Whether or not it's worth your time is another story.

In any orderly system, stability relies on the stratification of responsibility to guide, the rigidity to deflect doubt, and the cement of our common ideals. Though you may drape your governments in different facades, your systems, your governments, your charters, it is all the same. In order to quell anarchy, one must impose order. One must relinquish some rights in exchange for stability. Valhalla and any other alliance does it every day. Though you may argue that on this spectrum, between order and chaos, we go to far, it is amoral to demand the stability and structure we do. I say it is amoral to allow the doubt and chaos one must embrace to avoid it.

Francoism is an eddie of strength and order in turbulent waters.

Well see...what separates the system employed by Valhalla and a lot of other alliances from yours is that the pride we feel in our alliances is arrived at with the full knowledge that people have other options yet they chose to stand with us. We don't see the world separated into "us vs. the howling wilderness" as you seem to insist is the case (or turbulent waters if you prefer).

[Thistledown]

Am I the only one who thinks Francoism was channeling something besides Stalin or Hitler?

How about Hobbes..?

Really, both Stalin and Hitler followed Hobbes' Leviathan as autocratic rulers, not subject to the will of the people. However, the Stalin and Hitler relations do have more commonalities with NPO because they are RL, such as the "comrade" situation, quasi-social mobility, the "comrades", desire to consolidate and centralize power, and creation of "satellite nations" (Q, 1v). They aren't the same, of course, and NPO's not terribly interested in genocide. Really, you can make a case that most historical autocratic governments are like NPO.