BLOCK WARDENS
We Take It From Here!
The block wardens* are the informants, security guards, and flaggers on the Human Farm.
*From the German: ‘Blockwart’. The blockwarte or blockleiter were typically the lowest-ranking functionaries in the totalitarian state. We could continue with "block wardens" in this text; the original term "blockwarte", however, lends us that undeniable German "Umpf".
The creators of the Human Farm wanted to abolish the social classes between humans. Paradoxically, entirely new classes sprung from this. One such new class was the class of the state enforcers for the abolishment of the classes.
Over time, enslaved people develop symptoms of desperation. The subdued groups become lazy, perhaps, impulsive and savage. The dumbshits became irritable and antisocial. The females developed depression and hysteria. The males of the slaves became disrespectful and hateful against their masters.
The haters spread hateful speech, which is contagious. [Especially now, when they all can type and message on their cellphones.] We need to stop them hating their prison situation and love their caretakers again.
Here on the Human Farm, we do not allow swearing and shouting or any remarking that constitute or promote violence, harassment, or hatred against people based on any characteristics such as social class, success, race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity—except the ones the masters approve of.
Totally off-limits is the hatred against the state, its institutions, its governmental officials, its culture makers, its guards of honor, its thought police, and the social condition in general, of which the enslaved people could not possibly change a thing anyways.
The blockwarts are in guard of the general oppression apparatus and in particular of the hate portals, the watch towers, and internal communication that underrun the civil services like a sewer. They oversee the behavior and watch the conduct of all bureaucrats and employees down to the last typist.
“We do not allow posts or accounts that glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize vengeance, vigilantism, revolt, and overthrow of the government!” This includes “the use of scientific or pseudoscientific claims or misleading statistics pathologize, dehumanize, or disempower the state and its representatives!”
“We do not allow calls for intolerance, exclusion, or segregation, nor do we allow the glorification of hate groups that incite anything of the above.”
The government recruits tens of thousands of voluntary “informants,” but it also hires academics and publishers as chief blockwarts to look for flowery words to disguise their ugliest intentions: The government targets the haters with “slurs, tropes, or other words that intend to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce harmful stereotypes,” yet at the same time of course the blockwarts commit the same crimes that they just so accused the haters of: “Look what hate you brought onto yourself!”
Some critics call the blockwarts the moral police, the censors, or just this: the moderators. The blockwarts do all of these: they police, they censor, and they moderate all public discourse, all behaviors, and all living thoughts (if they can). They make sure that every individual that comes through the system fits correctly into his box (or cell) at each stage of his petty existence—the cradle, the class room, the lecture hall, the office cubicle, and the glass coffin.
And lately, as a matter of modernisation, of course they added to these the inbox, the chatroom, and the internet hangout: “We do not allow hateful complains, images, memes, symbolism, or other input, including signs or hidden meanings in your username, your profile, or your bio on social media!”
The blockwarts in real life are nothing like you see in the movies. For one, you—as the accused—will never see them. They are totally invisible. Next, if the authorities take you in for some unspecified “thought crime,” do not—ever—accuse them of blockwarting. They hate it when you talk that way.
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