Conscription Means Full Employment

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." - Barack Obama, July 2, 2008 speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Since we are about to see a significant increase in poverty levels, conscription makes perfect sense. A modern policy of conscription need not solely confine itself to the military, but should be tailored to serve all the needs of Homeland Security: checkpoints, neighborhood watch, police assistance, TSA, etc. Such an expansion of what conscription comprises can only be beneficial. Naturally, we must call it something other than a draft or conscription when programming the barbarians, something such as "National Service" might suffice.

Once the next big event occurs, the great unwashed will be clamoring all over each other to serve as State functionaries. Never underestimate the herd mentality we have so assiduously cultivated in them. The witless horde yearns to be a part of something greater than itself, and considering its shallow nature, it’s not at all difficult for us to deliver. Their instinctual need to submerge their identities within groups has been amplified by our plastic popular culture, and they will willingly submit. We merely took the sublimated awareness of their own worthlessness and channeled it to nourish our System's needs. We did not invent the mentality, but merely tethered it to our goals and enhanced it.

If we examine the representative specimen of peasantry, we shall find a maggot despising its own pathetic existence to the point that it constantly endeavors to hide from reality. This fact constitutes the most sensible trait of the breed, and is why our diversionary apparatuses work so effectively. Our short term goal is naturally to break their families and keep them running in circles. I think we've been quite successful on that score, but the transformation from commoner to servile apparatchik is not yet complete and conscription can only hasten its arrival.