The Irish Savant has a piece about the logical obtuseness of those indoctrinated in the Islamic faith, the story of the Jewish Holocaust, or the need for greater toleration of mass Third-World immigration to Europe and North America.
The Savant's conclusion is that brainwashing must change the chemistry of the brain in such a way as to make its victims resistant to all logical argument. That is undoubtedly correct. It is also easily understood.
Brainwashing associates all kinds of bad things with people who reject the brainwasher's memes. Such people are raaacist, they're haters, they're bigoted, or they're anti-Semites, or mysogenists, or homophobes, or blah, blah, blah, whereas the brainwashed are good liberal people, moral people, people who will sacrifice even their own tribe to win the approbation of the beautiful (and often very weird) people like Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Obama the new Messiah, Pope Francis for a Muslim Europe, and all the rest of the scumbag elite!
So obviously, anything that rebuts the brainwashing creates horrible tension. No way does anyone want to be a raaaacist, or have an aged painted whore named Madonna refuse to give them a blow job because the didn't vote for the aged painted whore Hillary, who holds them in total contempt.
Thus, as Scott Adams explains, faced by evidence of the complete illogicality of their beliefs, the brainwashed hallucinate rationalizations of whatever they've been brainwashed to believe.
There's no way to unbrainwash the brainwashed except by the methods of the brainwashers. Rational argument won't work because rational people cannot be brainwashed in the first place. But you cannot unbrainwash the brainwashed unless you have the same tools as the brainwashers, i.e., the media, Hollywood, No. 10 Downing St., the White House, etc.
Today, the bastards for the genocide of the European people through suppressed reproduction, e.g., Pope Francis who urges a one-child population on the already fast declining European people, and mass immigration, e.g., the Obama/Hillary/Paul Ryan Treason Party for open borders, are in the saddle and the only way to save the Europe peoples, whether in Europe or North America is to boot the Treason Party bastards out.
It remains to be seen whether Trump will remain true to his announced nationalist agenda, but at least he's demonstrated one way it's possible to beat the Treason Party: it is by directing relentless ridicule, derision and contempt at those in power, and by attacking the moral pretensions of the lying media monopolists. Wimpy half measures and compromises will never win the day. The political battle must be enjoined in the awareness that it is a battle against genocide and the destruction of Western Civilization by a vile and ruthless enemy.
- The Savant's conclusion is that brainwashing must change the chemistry of the brain in such a way as to make its victims resistant to all logical argument. That is undoubtedly correct. It is also easily understood. .... ..
ReplyDeleteI can only wonder about a perspective that divides people on brainwashed and not-brainwashed ... while failing to mention homeschoolers.
John T. Gatto said about educational institutions: “No one survives these places with their humanity intact.”
Perhaps you have failed to pay much attention to it. There is such a thing as regular academic brainwashing. Its end-products are people capable of accepting logical arguments whenever they are essential in their execution of tasks demanded of them by their superiors in the hierarchy. (This is described at length in "Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives" by Jeff Schmidt (available on Library Genesis.) )
In addition:
At some points of human lives, and in some essential aspects of our lives, everyone is 'resistant to rational arguments.' For example, usually there are NO rational arguments about one’s protective attitudes to one’s own progeny. There are NO rational arguments stating why our species should reproduce itself. The reproductive acts themselves are out of control from the perspective of our conscious selves. All life's evolution is without a certain ultimate goal in time.
These are realities that should be accepted. To do so, one has to take an attitude that is _arational_.
- [Y]ou cannot unbrainwash the brainwashed unless you have the same tools as the brainwashers, i.e., the media, Hollywood, No. 10 Downing St., the White House, etc.
Oh, take them the credit card and they are yours :)
- 'Wimpy half measures and compromises will never win the day. [Yes.] The political battle must be enjoined in the awareness that it is a battle against genocide and the destruction of Western Civilization by a vile and ruthless enemy.'
While there is truth in that, I sadly note that Western civilisation's cultural DNA is in a process of unraveling for more than a century. Even a hundred years ago, Spengler was able to describe the Western decadence, pointing as one of its hallmarks the prominence of journalism, the babble of the day.
An example of that is the now frequently cited Breitbart.com, a website that used to be a fairly good, reliable news site _before_ the editorship of the current chief strategist of the White House and consequently of the Western Civilisation. (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/19/open-thread-69-5/#comment-469411)
What hope is there, then, for the Western Civilisation's respect for truth (for analysis with the purpose of gaining technical advantage in real life conflicts)?
Truth in the West is becoming increasingly a matter of impressions that affirm one's worldview.
Virtually all defenders of the West have the notion of Soviet communism murdering a number of millions of its own people. The scientific estimates are an order of magnitude smaller, the most cited figure being around 600,000.
Steve Bannon sees Russia as a dangerous, misbehaving plutocracy: sounds like American self-projection!
In contrast, many others see Putin as a defender of traditional national and Christian values. That notion is also quite flawed, unfortunately : http://www.unz.com/pbuchanan/is-putin-the-preeminent-statesman-of-our-times/#comment-1819749
I hope that from my vantage point in Eastern Europe I'm wrong in perceiving an continuation of Western decline across the political spectrum.
Still, there is hopeful lucidity. The very likeable and popular Trump supporter Bill Mitchell says: "Trump’s groundgame isn’t in a computer, it’s in our hearts."
Hear, hear!
"At some points of human lives, and in some essential aspects of our lives, everyone is 'resistant to rational arguments.'"
DeleteThe ultimate springs of all human action are the emotions. The thing about brainwashing is to inculcate ideas that are counterproductive to the rational pursuit of happiness or emotional fulfillment, but which serve the interests (emotional fulfillment) of an tyrannical elite.