My guess is that folk today have no thoughts or values that are not planted by education or media. There has only ever been one version of reality presented to and accepted by them. They know they are correct because growing up no-one ever corrected them, they never had to accept losing the egg and spoon ra…
My guess is that folk today have no thoughts or values that are not planted by education or media. There has only ever been one version of reality presented to and accepted by them. They know they are correct because growing up no-one ever corrected them, they never had to accept losing the egg and spoon race. Salami sliced by identity politics, and trapped in polarised social media echo chambers, they no longer have a point from which to objectively view their own culture. Believing woke liberal creeds has become a sign of being educated, an education that has led to the devaluing of masculinity, the dismantling of collectivism, the nuclear family, religion and faith.
Instead, today's godless society is cult-like; members share the same vision of reality and the same fears. Conformity is required and any behaviour outside the bounds of the norms of the cult brings about a fearful reaction. Fear is an unconscious response from our more primitive brain to a PRESENT threat. Anxiety is an emotional response to an IMAGINED threat, a response that shuts down the logical side of the brain. We live in a constant state of arousal due to the continuous bombardment of 24 hour media, the machinery of the state. Continuous exposure to this invasive, inflammatory rhetoric and imagery causes changes in the brain which can change anxiety into fear, that is, from an emotional response to an unconscious response that we cannot control.
It is a huge business, creating fear and anxiety. And we humans are wired to respond to them so are highly manipulable. We have become programmed without our consent; we have acquired a false sense of involvement; we have been told we should be fearful. To defend against those fears we acquire something akin to Stockholm Syndrome and revere the oppressor. IMO
I agree with all of that Jeff.
My guess is that folk today have no thoughts or values that are not planted by education or media. There has only ever been one version of reality presented to and accepted by them. They know they are correct because growing up no-one ever corrected them, they never had to accept losing the egg and spoon race. Salami sliced by identity politics, and trapped in polarised social media echo chambers, they no longer have a point from which to objectively view their own culture. Believing woke liberal creeds has become a sign of being educated, an education that has led to the devaluing of masculinity, the dismantling of collectivism, the nuclear family, religion and faith.
Instead, today's godless society is cult-like; members share the same vision of reality and the same fears. Conformity is required and any behaviour outside the bounds of the norms of the cult brings about a fearful reaction. Fear is an unconscious response from our more primitive brain to a PRESENT threat. Anxiety is an emotional response to an IMAGINED threat, a response that shuts down the logical side of the brain. We live in a constant state of arousal due to the continuous bombardment of 24 hour media, the machinery of the state. Continuous exposure to this invasive, inflammatory rhetoric and imagery causes changes in the brain which can change anxiety into fear, that is, from an emotional response to an unconscious response that we cannot control.
It is a huge business, creating fear and anxiety. And we humans are wired to respond to them so are highly manipulable. We have become programmed without our consent; we have acquired a false sense of involvement; we have been told we should be fearful. To defend against those fears we acquire something akin to Stockholm Syndrome and revere the oppressor. IMO
Wow! I believe you’re right!