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Great article up at The Federalist.

Excerpts:

Political Correctness is all about Propaganda Compliance. PC is the engine of the propaganda machine that produces mass delusion. PC is basically a calculated process of molding public opinion through psychological manipulation. The process is twofold: saturation and suppression. Saturation is the practice of repeating a deception relentlessly and injecting it into every corner of public life so that it becomes accepted as truth. It involves control of most communications outlets.

Political Correctness is all about Propaganda Compliance. PC is the engine of the propaganda machine that produces mass delusion. PC is basically a calculated process of molding public opinion through psychological manipulation. The process is twofold: saturation and suppression. Saturation is the practice of repeating a deception relentlessly and injecting it into every corner of public life so that it becomes accepted as truth. It involves control of most communications outlets.

PC is a war on our personal relationships and personal conversations. Getting your business, school, or church in line with a politically correct agenda item is just the beginning for agents of propaganda compliance. In fact, control of the media, popular culture, and all of society’s institutions will never ever be enough for the central planners who push PC. Control of personal relationships is their endgame.

To self-identify in opposition to a PC agenda is effective in breaking down barriers, especially one on one. When people speak openly and respectfully about their beliefs to someone who likes or identifies with them, they can be immensely persuasive, even without talking points. They trigger ripple effects in thought. It is precisely these privately sparked ripple effects that PC aims to contain and control through its silencing tactics.

Whether or not I agree with any of Donald Trump’s political policies, one thing I definitely love the guy for is the fact is that he’s blowing up the PC machine and serving as both a beacon and an example for how to tear the PC walls down – which is exactly why the elites of both parties are trying to take him down.

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Thank goodness there are men and women like you KF, Barry et al who can watch those videos and/or read the details of what they get up to. How terrible and hopeless the situation would be, if we were were all too squeamish to do either, so that they had a free run, with us being left almost entirely in the dark about what they get up to.Axel
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Seversky, Kindly stop doubling down and pretending that there is not sobering reason for the comparison I am drawing. Mengele, Auschwitz's angel of death, would delight in doing what other SS doctors dreaded, the intake filtering: straight to the gas or into the camp. A big part of that was, he was looking for specimens for his murderous medical experiments, especially twins studies from hell. For children, all the while pretending to be "Uncle" Mengele, and even taking children for rides in his car (in those days, a thrill for a child) -- only the destination was unspeakable and fatal. Let me give a partial list:
Compare what some brave journalists have now successively exposed, breaking through the wall of political, agenda serving censorship. Specimens being chosen for "special" treatment, check. Altering already horrific child killing techniques to preserve organs and parts for tainted medical research, check. Killing living innocent humans in ways designed to feed into tainted medical research, check. Creating and participating in a market for the organs, parts and cadavers of the slaughtered children -- this, is new. Being a part of a global holocaust now totalling plainly hundreds of millions -- this too goes beyond. Pretending on flimsy excuses and patent fallacies that the targetted victims are somehow sufficiently subhuman, so they can be freely killed by their superiors, check.
Sorry, we need to face our guilt as a civilisation. Those who actively participate in mass killing for pay. Those who do so as "volunteers." Those who should be thinking about the real point of choice -- keep your knees together if you are not in a position to address the natural consequences of not keeping them together. Those who corrupted law, courts, legislatures, politics, the media, education, even churches and more. Those who voted in pols to keep the evil going, or voted for pols they knew or should have known would do so. Those who promoted a mass deception or failed to expose it and stand up with full force to challenge it. Those who enabled or to one extent or another went along. Those who derided Schaeffer and Koop who warned against the slippery slope we are on. We are all (with very few exceptions) guilty, you, me, others, our whole civilisation. This is the worst holocaust in human history and it is going on on our watch. Bloodguilt is one of the most corrupting, warping, perverting and blinding influences ever, and we are steeped in it. Thank God for those who had the courage and willingness to expose it and so blow the trumpet of warning. And no, this is a point I am not going to back down on. If my first political view ever (learned at mother's knee) is anti-nazism, this too I must see for what it is and I must stoutly oppose it. This is rampant, brazen, unmitigated, appalling, murderous evil that thrives on deception and concealment of the full horror. So, sorry, I don't give a farthing for attempts to project, play at turnabout, try to reduce me to immoral equivalency or the like. In the face of a holocaust, I know where I must stand. Yes, I was too silent for too long, I must now speak straight and plain. There is no excuse for holocaust and bloodguilt, mass bloodguilt. Period. I note, somewhere in your you are using Alinsky's tactics, you acknowledge abortion is wrong. That is a start. As to oh you have to persuade, my comment is, when you have an agit prop machine that has been dominant for decades pushing evil and marginalising the good, deceiving millions and inducing them into complicity with bloodguilt, that needs to be exposed, and frankly, it needs to be trumpeted. Look, medicine and nursing are tainted, are being implicated in ever deeper bloodguilt. Law, justice, courts, education, media, you name it. This is a moment of awful truth for our civilisation, and there is a terrible choice before us, at a point where hearts, minds and consciences are steeped in bloodguilt. These videos are the march of undeniable shame that opens eyes to what we don't want to face, just as the liberating troops frog-marched the people of Nuremberg through Buchenwald so they could never after deny the truth. And those who do deny the truth, are shown thereby to be malevolent liars. KFkairosfocus
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Seversky
Comparing the doctors, nurses and volunteers who work at Planned Parenthood to Josef Mengele and the Nazis is exactly that.
The videos generate those reactions because the public (some of them) saw appalling things which would have otherwise been covered-up by standard media sources.
The women who go of their own free will to the PP clinics are not concentration camp prisoners being experimented on by some psychopath with a perverted concept of science and no concern for the rights of his victims.
Victims, Sev. The children. Being experimented on (having body parts removed and sold) - the babies. No concern for the rights of ... the babies. I appreciate your opposition to abortion and you offer good alternative means. Certainly, the other side needs to be convinced. But I don't think there's only one approach. Stirring up moral outrage is legitimate and it has nothing to do with Saul Alinsky.
Channeling raw hatred against people who don’t all deserve it is both dangerous and un-Christian in my view.
If that was the approach then, yes, I would fully agree. However, don't you think the videos offer content that is deserving of very strong condemnation?Silver Asiatic
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PS: As for Mr Trump, I do not know where you pulled anything about him from, but I will say that I see him as yet another sign of the breakdown of our civilisation.
My apologies, that was a comment on the OP by WJM which I failed to identify as such. I think Donald Trump has great entertainment value but, personally, I think Limberbutt McCubbins is a better choice for President.Seversky
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Seversky, journalistic expose of high tech Dr Mengeles in action will get my support.
Demonizing and vilifying a target group is a classic Alinskyite tactic. Comparing the doctors, nurses and volunteers who work at Planned Parenthood to Josef Mengele and the Nazis is exactly that. The women who go of their own free will to the PP clinics are not concentration camp prisoners being experimented on by some psychopath with a perverted concept of science and no concern for the rights of his victims. You may think abortion is morally wrong, as I do, but the way to stop it is to convince the pro-choicers that is the case. In that way, if you persuade enough people, you will you eventually get the change in the law that is needed. Channeling raw hatred against people who don’t all deserve it is both dangerous and un-Christian in my view.
Thanks for inadvertently telling us more about your worldview and the agendas it supports. KF
If you endorse Alinskyite tactics when they are used to further a cause you support but condemn them in all other cases then you are revealing the hypocrisy in your worldview.Seversky
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Political correctness also has, as its chief beneficiary and ally, one of our two main political parties. If the actions of PC warriors were an equal hindrance to both parties, their access to our publicly-funded institutions would have been taken from them at the outset.EvilSnack
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I don't agree its complex. Its simple. God tells us what is correct. Society says what is correct and from this laws may be made. Poltical correctness does not come from society. The word POLTICAL means power. So it means those in/with power decide what is correct. If the people/magority agree its just a coincidence. PC is about imposing a conclusion and punishing, in any way, dissent from that. Its socially incorrect to tell a crying little girl to shut up. society would allow punishment, if not law, to end that. PC says that even in private one is not to say that little girl was bad for crying. They punish opinions in short. PC can be beaten with enforcement of the peoples contract in how they give up their freedom to say/think/do only with legal government. Too many of the people allow punishment of what is not illegal or socially wrong or social important even if wrong. pC largely comes from the identity movements. Ethnic/sex/sexual orientation etc. it takes people to land on the beach and risk getting hurt. I have had PC problems on all forums I go on just dealing with origin issues. everyone punishes everyone . Eventually everyone complains. PC has become a bad word these days. Some progress but in the end freedom of thought and speech is once again denied by the establishment and some of the public. The bad guys saw a loophole to enslave mankind once again to evil things or wrong things and silencing ourselves. Just fight them. Trump censored/punished people on his tv shows for anti-semetism, racism etc. I saw it. That was wrong and PC. He reaps what he sows.Robert Byers
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As for Trump’s popularity, I take that as a symptom of how disillusioned ordinary voters are with establishment politicians of whatever persuasion. Not to mention the low potential harm of supporting a candidate at this stage. You get all of the thrill and don't have to worry about whether he's really the right person to be nominating judges. If you assume that he's running mostly for the sake of his own vanity, the recent infographic on where his support comes from is fascinating. One of the richest Americans is financing his vacation from some of the smallest pockets. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/28/435186527/charts-2016-presidential-donors-millionairesLearned Hand
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E.g., Barnes and Noble have Darwin’s Doubt in the religion section, not science.
And they put Coyne's Faith vs Fact and Dawkins' God Delusion in science, not religion.Silver Asiatic
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Seversky, journalistic expose of high tech Dr Mengeles in action will get my support. Thanks for inadvertently telling us more about your worldview and the agendas it supports. KF PS: As for Mr Trump, I do not know where you pulled anything about him from, but I will say that I see him as yet another sign of the breakdown of our civilisation.kairosfocus
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(The current takedown of Planned Parenthood for their cutting up and selling parts of aborted babies is going to go into the textbooks as a classic.)
So Alinskyite tactics are fine as long as they are deployed to advance a cause you support? As for Trump’s popularity, I take that as a symptom of how disillusioned ordinary voters are with establishment politicians of whatever persuasion.Seversky
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BA: I'd suggest, i/l/o a fair bit of history: PC = Political Censorship, by intimidatory message dominance.
(Let's call things by accurate names. And anytime someone plays PC games with you, publicly and loudly ask, why are you trying to impose political censorship on me? Or, slander me, or whatever. Silence is consent for the deluded and manipulated angered crowds. I understand a key step tot he ending of the reign of terror was when a woman screamed as loud as she could as long as she could, fighting for her life even though obviously she could not win, instead of trying to play the reserved quiet victim -- which is likely to be taken as a public admission of guilt by the propagandised in a state of manipulated hysteria. The crowds suddenly woke up to the falsity and cruel nature of what they were doing. I stand to be corrected on the facts, but can say that the few standing up loud and clear in the teeth of a day of demonic evil and fighting with almost suicidal courage regardless of price that has to be paid usually counts for much in the long run. Thermopylae is proverbial and legendary. So are the few unarmed men who took on the hijackers over Pennsylvania on 9/11. For that matter, there is a reason why Stephen is a common name down to this day, a reason that can be read in Ac 6 - 7.)
To break it, first expose what is going on:
* the bullyboyism, * the lies [outright and by distortion of truth], * the target-painting on chosen "examples," * the doubling down/piling on those who dare question or object, * the media power centre backed projection of smears, strawmen caricatures and slanders to demonise, poison, mislead, confuse and polarise * the evils that are being shielded by the manipulation and intimidation
That's defence, wars -- and this is fourth generation culture war we are dealing with with a lot of non state actors and with agit-prop, institutional capture, mob behaviour etc often more effective than traditional open fighting or more classic guerrilla tactics -- are won by seizing and holding the initiative. So, modelling on Charles Martel and the mountains of northern Iberia, secure the base by creating centres of refuge and strength that hold the invading surge when its momentum is likely to be short on logistical muscle or there is good defensive ground. Next, build strength, by training, equipping and mobilising resources. Break isolated probes, create a realisation of superiority by defeating champions who play the Goliath. Surge, holding and pinning but with key breakthrough points. Blitzkrieg. Let's list:
Pass through the heavy armoured operational maneuver groups and advance on disruptive axes going for key distant points, backed by air power -- here, media power and power teams that hit hard and keep going in the information battlespace look like the proper analogue. Back those with adequate resources, avoiding strategic overstretch. Mop up the bypassed. Consolidate and keep going. Do not outrun your resources. Do not become predictable. Since this is a worldviews war, go for the fatal cracks in the foundations and blow them up. Yes, put in the message dynamite, run the lines and trigger the detonation at the right place and time. The walls will come down. This is also a media agitprop war, so expose and break the key centres of propagation. For instance, the line of lies institutionally sustained by Wikipedia and several other centres in the teeth of ample correction and opportunity to get the message straight but ignored for years reveal demonic malevolence. Such deserve to be exposed, correctly and publicly called what they are, and branded as willful deceivers to be shunned by decent people. There comes a point where representative voices must stand up and use the verbal sword of justice. (The current takedown of Planned Parenthood for their cutting up and selling parts of aborted babies is going to go into the textbooks as a classic.) Keep up the pressure until the job is done, then go through and clean out remaining fever swamps. No breeding swamps, and mosquito borne diseases will abate. And for the mosquitoes that breed in cans or whatever, vigilance to keep areas clean will manage the hazard.
Don't forget screening to keep the bugs out. KFkairosfocus
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Here’s the correct link to the Federalist piece.News
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PC should also be tabbed, "personal censorship." The PC crowd accept that some ways of thinking must be censored. For them, this is natural. And, if given a chance, they impose this 'censorship' on others. E.g., Barnes and Noble have Darwin's Doubt in the religion section, not science. Best selling books of conservative authors find themselves in out of the way places. When "personal censorship" becomes "public censorship," which the PC crowd urges, we call that "fascism." That's what the Left is, and perhaps always has been: thuggish fascists. Watch out.PaV
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