Yesterday, I was researching a bit on that last quote from Shirer's book about the Third Reich. In the political discourse, the term "right-wing" gets used a lot, but do people hearing this term actually know what it means? I would suggest that they do not, because not enough effort went into teaching people how to think for themselves. Therefore, the natural thing is for people to accept way too much of what they hear as being true, without having any attribution to facts and evidence. Indeed, the post modernist framework encourages people to have a lazy mind.
How that affects us all? Well, I had forgotten all about how to do research. Re-reading Shirer's book showed the Bibiography of his research. In other words, as Bongino would say, he brought his "receipts". He had his evidence, and he presented in the form of footnotes, that you can look up for where he got his information. It turns out that Hitler described in his own book how to undermine and overthrow the current order, and by golly, that is exactly what he did to Germany.
Now if you watch the rhetoric of Democrats (commies), you'll notice that it follows Hitler's script almost to the letter. Not only that, they accuse Trump of being Hitler! This is monstrous, as I've mentioned. Yet, the public, which has been trained to be almost like mindless seals that clap at every word and claim that comes forth from the commies, do not examine the claims, and consequently are led like lemmings to the edge of the cliff, so that they can all jump over the cliff to their own destruction.
Yours truly does not believe all of this is organic. It didn't happen just as a consequence. An enemy did this.
What does this have to do with Luddites? Actually, nothing. But what it may show is that Luddite thinking could be easily adopted by a non-critical public if that is what these string-pullers want. I suspect that that is exactly what the string-pullers DO want.
Why? Well, they may not even know themselves because they may also be caught up in this post modernist way of being that denies that there's any such thing as TRUTH.
We are in a lot of trouble.
It may be a good idea to visit that topic. The term gets used a lot, and I'd like to know what it means- exactly.
You can swallow the red pill or the blue one. If you swallow the red one, you want to know. That is the path of knowledge. The path of ignorance is to swallow the blue pill. Then you can believe whatever you want to believe- you'll substitute your beliefs for actual knowledge. But you will be ignorant, just the same. The blue pill may be seen as the easy way out, hence its attractiveness. The red pill may be seen as the hard way, and it might scare off most people.
Anything new is frightening. But it may be no easier or harder than what already exists. You only exchange one set of problems with another. Problems will always exist. Problems are good. The only people with no problems are the ones in graveyards. If you have a problem, it means you are alive.
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