Architects, Craftsmen and Tools

By Michael Ryan

This is not a Sears® commercial!

In society, the term “Tool” is most often used in speech as a pejorative to describe easily manipulated, somewhat stupid people. Tools are also known as “drones” “clones” “idiots” “losers” “monkeys” and so on. The term is most often used by other’s who aspire to become “Craftsmen.” A Tool is recognized as someone that is not only easily manipulated but generally clueless as to the true nature of their status as a Tool.

Craftsmen are not the tradesmen that we typically associate with that term, i.e. builders of stone and wood. In truth Craftsmen are themselves mere tools. Craftsmen are in fact Tools of the Architect. Craftsmen are the ones tasked with realizing the Ideas of the Architect, the Ideas that other’s will accept as defining principles…ideas that will direct and define the very meaning of life for all Others.

An Architect is someone who is generally in control of everyone’s destiny. Architects are people that are skilled in the art of creating something new…something that will lead the rest of a culture…direct the destinies of that culture, define that culture… create the reasons that others will use to direct their own lives. Although not always correct in their thinking or right in their action as proven by History, the Architect is recognized as someone that first and foremost has the Power to Control others. The Architect firstly designs the Project, chooses the Craftsmen and monitors the results…and by extension, has the means to place the blame for Failed Projects.

Tools are instruments to be used by the Craftsman directly, the Architect indirectly. They are pawns with little or no Will to Power and exist solely to be of service to the Craftsman. Tools are small, easily programmed “servants” that exist to follow. One very clear example of a particular class of Tool is known by the Label “Soldier.” The Soldier is a pliant drone easily programmed to accept any command to action by his Craftsman handler including but not limited to self-sacrifice and murder in the Name of the State. The very powerful class of Architect known as the “Statesman” has garnered the means to be able to program anyone to bow unquestioningly to his will, to act on his command. Using a very powerful programming Language called “Jingoism” that incorporates the Terms, Signs and Symbols of the State such as “Patriotism, God and Country,” the Statesman can convince almost anyone that they are in fact a very useful Tool in the “Struggle to Achieve National Security.”

The Architect is driven to always change whatever is presently static and comfortable. Architects are driven to redirect the streams of consequence and conscience to flow to their desired precedence…and desires…I call these types of Architects, “Gaults,” after Ayn Rand’s Anti-Hero. They are not content to live in the present but choose to believe that there will always be something better, and that whatever it is in the design of their desires will provide a better future that can be crafted for other’s to follow.

A Tool’s usefulness is limited by the needs of the Architect and Craftsmen. As the Craftsman is directed to realize the needs of the Architect and as the Architect himself discovers new ideas or finds that he needs to alter his present work-plan, he is driven to create new Tools that will serve whatever new game plan he feels he needs to accomplish. Sometimes he comes to the conclusion that he may need to “retire” whatever Craftsmen…and in turn the Tools… he deems no longer useful.

What other Craftsmen and Tools usually observe during the trial-and-error phase of any new Project is that governments will fall and wars will rage as many different Tools are tried, rejected and destroyed. Ultimately a few Key Craftsman’s and their Tools may be created and history will either embrace or descry that which was created by the Architect and his Craftsmen. In the end, it is the Architect that will garner the spoils of success while the Tools and their handlers, the Craftsmen, are easily sacrificed and regarded as defective… and ultimately be blamed for the failure the Architect’s Great Project.

The reality that exists for most Tools is that most do not realize that they are indeed Tools: they mistakenly believe that they have Power…Power over others….usually other Tools, and for them, that is enough. But the fact remains that they are merely cogs in some Architect’s creation out of a need to fulfill an Architects Project requirements without realization that there are larger concerns at work:… designs and ends that are beyond their power to not only understand but direct and affect. They will remain Tools until they evolve to the point of conscious recognition: firstly that they are tools, and secondly that they may themselves have the skills to become Craftsmen or better an Architect. Many Tools in the past have actually become Craftsmen after such realizations have taken hold and they in turn will create and employ other’s as Tools.

You…as either a Craftsmen or a Tool….may be wondering: “what does all this mean?”

All I can say is… if you look at the really big picture… the one a particular society presents to the world and seriously look at the players involved in creating that picture, you will be able to tell the movers from the moved…the creators with a design, the Architects, and the means to achieve that design and all the rest. Most of the “rest” are Tools.

But be heartened…If all the Tools suddenly woke up and realized that they are merely tools to be used by the self-styled Craftsmen, and if the current Craftsmen realized that they are only trying to fix already failed Projects designed by errant Architects with out of date methods and Tools, then perhaps everyone can become Architects of their own Destiny and choose wisely only the best Craftsmen and Tools.

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