What is controlled

opposition?
by Liam Campbell

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead them.” –

Vladimir Lenin

If you go online and search for “controlled opposition” you

will find over 2 million results, and essentially all of them
are garbage. This is a tactic which has been used throughout the
entirety of known human history, and yet you’ll find the
internet has been cleaned of almost every meaningful reference.
My first introduction to controlled opposition was George
Orwell’s book 1984, a dystopian novel which paints a vivid
picture of a grim future: humanity has become the slave of
perpetual warfare, inescapable government surveillance,
insidious propaganda, and irrational denialism. Does this remind
you of the Project for the New American Century? It should.

In Orwell’s novel people focus on the superstates, the

Thought Police, and Big Brother. But, in fact, the single
greatest character is a forgettable person named Goldstein; he
is the leader of “The Brotherhood” and he is based on Leon
Trotsky. Within the narrative of the novel, Goldstein is
supposed to be the hero whose revolutionary writing inspires
those “woke” minds within the system to rise up and dismantle
the corrupt system in which they’re enslaved. Yet, as the novel
progresses, Orwell soon reveals to us that the heroic
“Goldstein” is nothing more than fiction, a character created by
the dominant culture to bait dissenters into the open so they
can be identified and neutralized. Orwell uses “Goldstein” to
paint a vivid picture of controlled opposition.

Goldstein demonstrates an insidious tactic, used by the

dominant culture, to control the boundaries of dissent. This
character is effectively a “rat trap” to ensare those few
individuals who dare look beyond the veil of our manufactured
reality, so they can be processed and neutralised before they
foment any real resistance against the hegemony of the state.

Today we are faced with a dying planet. Corporations employ

puppets like Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Jair Bolsonaro to
serve rotational roles as villains in order to focus the
unthinking masses on “two minutes of hate” against fleeting
enemies, distracting us from the more fundamental forces behind
our collective extinction. We are in the midst of a self-
perpetuated genocide where we are simultaneously the victims and
the perpetrators. Our species has fallen victim to Gustave Le
Bon’s horrific vision of unthinking crowds, divided against each
other and incapable of thinking deeply. In this way we become so
polarized that we are more inclined to accept global
annihilation than to conceive of the possibility of changing
ourselves. In this way, identity politics have rendered us
incapable of perceiving objective reality, and so we deny
apocalypse even as it rains down upon our heads.

In the United States we bear witness to a tragical comedy of

controlled opposition; two parties representing the same cause
vie against each other in violent cultural battles, at the
expense of the marginalized and to the profit of those few
invisible hands who hoard the abstract figures of monetary
games. The United States is a nation of controlled opposition;
the Republican Party marches uncontrollably toward a death urge,
while the Democratic Party controls the public backlash through
weakness, compromise, and incrementation. For every 10 years
they gain, they give 20 years, and so the cycle goes until there
is nothing left but the burning wreckage of a plundered planet
concentrated into the silos of a few hopeless bunkers inhabited
by imaginary billionaires on a dead planet.

Our latest iteration of controlled opposition is called

Extinction Rebellion, which supposedly stands in contrast to the
End Times death cults which now control so much of the world —
including figures like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro. This
supposed resistance movement is made up of priveleged members of
society who drape themselves in the robes of moral superiority
while simultaneously enslaving children in cobalt mines through
their iPhones, devouring ecosystems through their toilet paper,
and burning the planet alive through their fossil fuel
consumption. We are led to believe that their street theatre,
weekend marches, and media interviews are the fringe of
rebellion. By framing the world this way, they are effectively
controlled opposition. Joining their cause does much more than
add us to government lists; it confines us within the
predetermined boundaries of the death cults who are, at this
very moment, leading us to global extinction.

In American politics we are asked “will you vote Red or

Blue” and in environmental activism we are asked “will you
perform street theatre or deny global warming?” By controlling
the opposition and defining the parameters of acceptable
rebellion, the forces of death nullify our ability to
meaningfully resist our own annihilation; they make us both the
victims and the perpetrators of genocide.

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