>>11277386Wearing people down is a pre-requisite. So we first clamp, vaccinate, circumcise, irradiate, fluoridate, brominate, etc. Then we foster hedonism, which is quite easy given the generally feeling of a deep almost almost existential hole in oneself, and iterate accordingly.
Pleasure, compliance, and submission is all about the mixed bag. Too little punishment, they don't take it seriously and do not cede their internal landscape to outside forces. Too much and they just shut down and their machinery seizes up completely. It needs to be kept oscillating within certain bounds, and they must see themselves as having some person choice or agency in their fate. Even if it is an illusion. Hence, you keep them chasing an ever shifting and narrowing island of stability whereby the pain lessens and the means for pleasure begins to exist, at which point you may drip feed accordingly. Or pour, to disorient and greatly shift their course before their "island" shifts again and they must loop back around in short order. Over time this conditions the individual towards compliance by reworking the architecture of their internal world towards accepting without question that their experience will be externally dictated, if they have some ability to twist their mind and "shift their perspective" to avoid the pain, this will be gradually erased by the aforementioned shifting of the rules. This is why illness is such a vital mechanism, they will eventually convince themselves that their misery or functional deficits are due to their own failure and ineptitude.
You hit the emotional jackpot by structuring and conditioning the system that will be experiencing it. Then the levers of control are plain, relatively fixed, and readily in view. The higher highs, the lower lows. Attempts to game the system only entrench one deeper.
