Corrupt

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The CORRUPT Plan

Our counterplan takes many forms, but resembles a technological Romantic society, with elements of eternal tradition -- things that are philosophically always true -- and an enlightened reaching toward future. We cannot be pigeonholed as simply conservationists, nationalists, futurists, or traditionalists. We are philosophers who point out what is structurally true, although invisible to most people, and enforce a kind of realism that allows us a pragmatic idealism of having meaning in life to offset death.

To put our counterplan into action, we must do two things: change minds and gain real-world political power. Much like a confused person, our society is grappling with a route to reality. There are too many voices shouting too many contradictory opinions. Our view at CORRUPT is that all people are aiming for the same general goal, a saner world, but are caught up in a debate over method. Our general approach is to synthesize the voices of others and find the harmony in them, thus to build consensus.

All civilization is based on some form of consensus. The populations with the highest degree of consensus have the most meaningful lives with the least amount of internal friction. Our goal in the first step of our plan, changing minds, is to reach those people in the mainstream who are both intelligent and capable of independent action. We know that these community leaders will, when convinced, spread our word to others, who will emulate it as they do most things. This trickle-down effect is how an unruly population gradually comes to accept more sensible ideas.

The second part of our plan, or gaining real-world power, relies on our becoming both a powerful media agency and an organization capable of gathering support behind political initiatives. As a media agency, we can not only change minds but put our spin on the news as every other organization is doing. As a political organization, we can directly influence policy and eventually put a candidate into office.

All of these future goals hinge upon one immediate need: to gain large amounts of traffic on the internet, to have them tune in to our vision, and to start to see us as a source of truth in an unstable world. For this reason, we work hardest at internet promotion and production of content to support our goal. Content can be philosophical, or more effectively, artistic and satirical/humorous so that people enjoy consuming our information-product and at the same time come closer to our point of view.

For this reason, we can construe our goals in three stages:

I. Audience cultivation, Internet

We will become, like fark.com or theonion.com or slashdot.org, a niche market dominator for all who are interested in extreme politics, environmentalism/conservationism, cultural preservation and traditional living. We will do this by having no right/left affiliation, but providing truthful and interesting commentary from our perspective. When we achieve a critical mass here, we will be able to move on to other areas.

The internet provides us an excellent forum because where television and newspapers are falling in readership, the internet is increasing, and on it people reach toward increasingly polarized and personalitied news and information sources. Over 40% of the population in the West currently gets its news from the internet, but among our target demographic of community leaders, that figure will be closer to 80% or higher. Reaching these people ensures an audience for our ideas, even if they simply rip them off and call them their own: we want the ideas to spread more than the organization, and the two will help each other.

II. Audience cultivation, as publisher

The next stage for our plan is to build a brand as a publisher. Our brand will be one of publishing houses like City Lights Books, O'Reilly and Associates, or Feral House: we will be known as the premier niche publisher in the new and rising genre of those who recognize the downfall of the West and are able to apply a pragmatic idealism to fix it. This process starts with the publication of our books through print on demand, and continues with further publications including those by authors yet unknown.

What this will do is to enable us to gain a foothold among the intelligentsia and educated community leaders of our nations, and allow us by selling a product to pay for the advertising we need to reach mass consciousness. Our ideology posits us neatly between liberal thinking publications like The New Republic and The Atlantic, the rock'n'roll culture publications such as Rolling Stone and High Times, and the New Right publications found in Europe and hinted at through American writers such as Tom Wolfe and George Saunders. We can bridge these disparate groups by pointing out what they have in common and cultivate an audience in each.

It is essential that we reach the stage of being considered a stable off-mainstream news source like Matt Drudge or War Nerd. This allows us to reach people who do not routinely surf the internet, but will home in on established sources. Most professionals, community leaders and thinkers do not have the time or inclination to surf the net at large, but will stop by for quality sources. We want to be one of those and to command all traffic in our niche.

III. Non-profit and political action status

Once we have a large audience both on and off the internet, and have a publishing brand which identifies our thinking by an easily-referenced genre label, we can move on to start a non-profit and later a political action group. The goal of non-profits everywhere seems to be to issue reports that are then considered credible by media and population, so we will take advantage of this and find facts, figures and opinions to support our ideas. Compiling these and putting them forth will give us finally a credible mainstream voice.

The establishment of this mainstream voice allows a political entity to reference it as truth and to use it as the basis of a campaign, so we will start a political action committee, or lobby. This will serve to concentrate our audience and remind politicians of our power, allowing us to negate some destructive things and encourage others, eventually getting us to the status where we can run political candidates ourselves.

Our goal in putting candidates into office is a simple process of creating a pyramid of successes. We will first target local offices, and succeed there in not just maintaining the status quo but improving it through methods recognized as radical but sensible. Next, we run candidates at the state level, then provide representatives, and at that point are credible as providers of a presidential candidate.

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