one that does not exist and is impossible to destroy
true rulers in modern system must be hidden. all meritocrats – bureaucrats, academicians – are by definition underlings. politicians are obvious puppets.
i see no reason to think that they believe their own propaganda. for one thing, the key thinkers that are taught in modern schools, such as Heidegger, openly taught that the progressivism must be destroyed from within, by encouraging its own destructive tendencies.
they order their underlings to say very stupid things – eg by now it is a crime-think to believe that women are weaker than men – but the mechanism they use to enforce obedience to those rules is not stupid at all.
they are continuously improving systems of indirect control of society. the internet and cell phones are key parts of that system.
the basic idea is to destroy natural social associations and replace them by artificial associations, mediated and controlled by technical means, which can be covertly manipulated.
eg Bitcoin and Silk Road. an unknown person or group proposes an interesting technical system to create an alternative monetary system. it includes a built-in system of tracking all transactions.
american intelligence creates a system for anonymizing internet connections – TOR. Somebody uses is to create a drug – trading website, in which drug traders and clients can self-register.
everyone assumes that it is all a great victory against state. but whose victory – nobody. there is a complicated system coordinating it, but people are taught to avoid noticing it. the system self-evolved. nobody rules. it happens by itself. everyone does what he wants, and the system which allows it happened by itself and is controlled by nobody.
at the same time, everyone is obeying orders – and denying it. this is the ultimate control – when those controlled control each other, and deny that anyone is controlling them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_%28novel%29
an indistinct image emerges of doublers’ Orwellian information-controlled civilization that is almost self-regulating, with a special kind of system of government—one that officially does not exist and is thus impossible to destroy. the society is controlled through a fictitious advanced branch of information science Lem dubs procrustics, based on the control and stratification of information flows within the society. it is used for molding groups within a society and ultimately a society as a whole to behave as designed by secret hidden rulers. one example described in the novel is the above mentioned settlement, kind of a “concentration camp” without any guards, designed so that the prisoners stay inside apparently of their own “free” will.