How Political Correctness Hijacked Trump Inauguration Protesters’ Brains, Americans can learn how political correctness
infects the mind by understanding the role it plays in recruiting protesters to
disrupt the inauguration. By Stella Morabito, 1/13/17
The goal of the Left’s campaign
against the Trump presidency is “mass
resistance” to bring the administration down.
Likely, that means you’ll be seeing lots of street protests of the 1960s
variety, reminiscent of the campaigns to bring down Lyndon B. Johnson and
Richard Nixon.
I suspect they will not only
cause Bill
Ayers to relive his glory days as a
domestic terrorist, he will also be able to test out the inroads he made after
40 years engaged in radical education reform built entirely on the agitprop
known as political correctness. These “reforms”—or mind
arson, as Robin Eubanks so perfectly put
it in her book “Credentialed to Destroy”— replace a child’s capacity for reason
with raw emotional reflexes. The question is: How many will “rise up” and be
mobilized like the good little drones political correctness has primed them to
be?
Somehow, this all reminds me of
a public
service ad from 30 years ago that used a
metaphor to warn about the harmful effects of drug abuse on the human brain. In
it, a man holds up an egg and says “This is your brain.” He then points to a
hot skillet and says, “This is drugs.” Finally, he cracks the egg into the
skillet and as it loudly sizzles, he remarks: “This is your brain on drugs.”
The narrator prefaced his remarks
with barely suppressed irritation that the harmful effects of drugs aren’t
obvious to all: “Is there anyone out there who still isn’t
clear about what doing drugs does? Okay [sigh] . . . This is your brain…”
Political
Correctness Also Fries the Brain
Let me take this one step further
and ask: Why can’t people understand that automatic obedience to the demands
of political
correctness, essentially a tool to incite mob
psychology, will change their brains as well? Blind compliance with the
propaganda of political correctness undeniably affects the mind. That’s the
whole point of it. Your brain on PC is like your brain on drugs.
Consider this: when people fear
talking about an idea, it tends to go out of circulation. The alternative view
becomes perceived as the only socially accepted view. When most outlets of
communication—Hollywood, academia, and the media—collectively push political
correctness, social distrust grows and more people believe they are all alone
with their “unpopular” opinions. A while back, I “dissected” this
phenomenon.
Political correctness is basically
mind hacking. It is a form of propaganda that induces self-censorship in order
to send politically incorrect ideas into a spiral
of silence. After observing the social
hostility to your politically incorrect opinion you are supposed to start
thinking of yourself as the crazy aunt locked up in the attic. So your only
hope for relief is to “come out” and support the PC line. Once you do so (Meryl
Streep’s Golden
Globe lecture just gave Hollywood another
lesson on how to do this) you can pat yourself on the back and simply mimic it.
Voila! You don’t need to do the hard
work of thinking anymore. Instead, PC conditions your brain to respond to the
good feeling of being praised, and to reject the bad feeling of being socially
punished for saying the “wrong” thing. That’s your brain on PC.
Power
Elites Use PC to Mobilize Masses
In essence, political correctness is
designed to force one view of reality and promote psychological isolation in
anyone who adopts a different view. This is the mental state many Americans are
now waking up from after a decades-long, force-fed diet of political
correctness from so many outlets of communication and the education establishment.
Our universities are now accommodating students’ inability to absorb different
points of view by giving them “safe spaces” in which they can become even
further insulated from real conversations.
You may ask: “Why turn students into
such ‘snowflakes?’” Well, for those with power-consolidating agendas, this type
of mind hacking short-circuits independent thought, turning the subjects into
deployable agents. (This is how cults operate, by the way.) With their brains
fried and fearful, unable to accept a different point of view, the recruits can
be used as drones and street agitators. They’ve internalized the message that
their very survival depends upon obedience to the sorcerers of political
correctness.
Enter
Agitators, Propagandists, and Street Theater
There are numerous reports that
“community organizers” of various stripes are planning “massive” protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration, hoping even
for violence and riots. They are
passionate about blockading streets in Washington, calling for what they call “clusterf–ks”
of roads. Students whose minds have been indoctrinated with political
correctness are no doubt expected to serve as warm bodies to prop up the illusion
of mass mobilization that might bring down the newly elected administration. If
the agitators can’t succeed through messaging, they are likely to pin their
hopes on provocations against the police that would then spin stories that
accuse the new administration of repression.
Any protesters who hope to march
“peacefully” won’t exist as a story, particularly since groups like
“DisruptJ20” say they are intent on using any means necessary to prevent the
inauguration from happening. The central theme of the inaugural protests is
that Trump is a “fascist,” or as stated in the central theme on ANSWER
Coalition’s web page : “Donald Trump is a racist,
sexist bigot.” This boogeyman approach aims to cultivate paranoia that will
cause the protesters to act up. By heightening fear and loathing in the masses,
the participants can be primed for maximum exploitation and mobilization by
their leaders.
This is right out of Saul
Alinsky’s how-to
guide on mass manipulation. In “Rules for
Radicals” Alinsky explained it is essential to personalize the
opposition so that there is a human face to hate. Then the organizers can stoke
resentment in their recruits and channel that hatred into a force for mass
mobilization. This is similar to the way political correctness works. To
consolidate power, twentieth-century
totalitarian regimes mobilized masses of people,
especially exploiting individuals who were uprooted and alienated. The ANSWER coalition, by the way,
praises murderous dictators and their henchmen, like Fidel Castro and Che
Guevara. Such organizations are marshaling the snowflakes who have been
cultivated by our media and education establishment to bring about its stated
goal: “revolution” of the freedom-hating communist variety.
Another “community organized” group
has taken out a full-page ad in The
New York Times to recruit protesters to prevent the inauguration.
It calls itself “Refuse
Fascism” and uses the slogan “NO!” It is
led by unabashedly self-avowed communists like Carl Dix and Bob Avakian. So to
march with this group is really to march for communism, a totalitarian form of government the legacy of which
includes the government-sponsored murders of well more than 100 million
innocent people.
How
Polarization Is Key to Effective Propaganda
I believe we need to see most
protesters as victims of political correctness. Propaganda has many
definitions, depending on whom you ask. But the common denominator of this
mind-altering propaganda pushed by power mongers is its hostility to free
speech, free thought, and free association with other people. It is anti-conversation
and anti-friendship.
It marches towards conformity of
thought, or “collective
belief formation.” It focuses on manipulating human
emotions—fear, envy, desire, anger, hate, etc.—rather than the dispassionate
examination of reality. That’s because independent thinking always stands in
the way of the monolithic conformity necessary to grant power-mongers the raw
power and status they crave.
They know that if your exposure to
political correctness it is left unchecked, if you are isolated into a bubble
of only one viewpoint or way of looking at the world, you’ll be less able to
think independently of the propaganda. That ability erodes as you become
isolated from alternative viewpoints. Your emotional reflexes—in the case of
protesters, their fear and loathing—will tend to overpower the brain’s capacity
for reason and logic.
That certainly seems to be the case
for celebrities who have shown us that they cannot manage the reality of
Trump’s election. From Lena Dunham to Bruce Springsteen, their meltdowns should
be instructive. Through repeating politically correct slogans and memes that
permeate the media and pop culture, they are transferring an emotional state of
despair to the masses—or, as Michelle Obama memed to Oprah Winfrey recently,
“What not having hope feels like”—fueling the urge to obstruct Trump’s
presidency and to agitate against him. They both reflect and irradiate the
inability to think or adapt.
Celebrities
as Protesters’ Ventriloquists
In acts of not-so-quiet desperation,
wannabe sorcerers of political correctness hope to get Americans with the
program by also showing them what “enlightened celebrity thought leaders” think
about Trump. They act like ventriloquists who keep repeating themselves in
hopes that you will follow suit. They recently put together a video encourage us to direct Congress to obstruct Trump’s
presidency.
They throw out all of the usual
emotionally-charged epithets—“racist,” “xenophobic,” etc.—in an attempt to
round up Americans to block Trump’s cabinet choices. They accuse Trump of
intolerance and encouraging violence—and in so doing, arouse the violent and
intolerant to “protest” Trump’s inauguration.
Protesters’
Brains on PC: Hardboiled or Scrambled?
So, political correctness can do a
lot of things to the brain. Blind obedience to it can hard-boil those neural
connections so no other ideas can compute. When confronted with a different
point of view, the signals tend to get scrambled in a process now known on
college campuses as “triggering.” When that happens, the victim is increasingly
led by his PC authorities into a safe space so he is out of the zone of
potential conversation and friendship. In this way, he can preserve and
maintain his brain’s hard-boiled PC status. (Such students are constantly
recruited into mass mobilization efforts, as Dix made clear in looking for
protesters to join “RefuseFascism’s” call to arms.)
But seriously, our brains are not
static organs. The neural connections within them can constantly change, based
on the effects of stimuli to which they are exposed. In fact, our brains are
not only responding constantly to our physical senses and what is in the world
outside of our bodies, but they also pick up and assess cues from interactions
in the more esoteric world of ideas. (That’s the world universities now seem
dedicated to protecting their students from.) So if we consider the recent
discovery of the brain’s changeability—its neuro-plasticity—we can learn to become more aware of the pitfalls of lazy, shallow thinking.
Let’s not forget that protesters’
emotionally charged behaviors have been in large part conditioned in them through
radical education reform and media committed to pushing political correctness.
And political correctness is definitely a bad habit for the brain. After
watching protesters’ irrational behavior, the lesson for Americans going
forward is that we must ignite a vigorous campaign to just say NO! to political
correctness.
http://thefederalist.com/2017/01/13/political-correctness-hijacked-trump-inauguration-protesters-brains/#disqus_thread
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