[danielmryan]

Did you see this part of the original article?

In The Righteous Mind, moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt presents volumes of research demonstrating the primacy of moral intuitions which “reason” is then used to buttress. It includes his in-person interviews where, of the 1,620 times that the interviewees were told of a repulsive story that explicitly stated no one was harmed, 38%, tojustify their revulsion at the outcome, nonetheless said that someone was harmed. The interviewees’ moral intuitions immediately led them to condemn the repulsive story, claim there was a victim, and then use their strategic reasoning to support their position rather than truly consider whether there was a victim.

In other words: 38% of the interviewees, when they heard a story that contained actions they considered morally repugnant, invented victimization when none existed.

That's enough to make for a fertile greenhouse for a lotta myths.

[robowombat]

The psychological warfare pushed by the education establishment and so-called entertainment are huge exercises in what marxists used to call ‘impregnational propaganda’. If a human can be trained to have certain automatic responses to certain words and phrases then that person's psyche can be significantly controlled. The librats mocked and hooted that such concepts were just ‘Birchite fantasies’ during the last 20 years of the Cold War while taking such ideas to heart through the writings of the epigoni of John Dewey and other behaviorist psychologists. In effect we now have a lemming electorate presided over by a Manchurian candidate President. No novelist could sell a book treatment for a novel about this yet it has happened right before our eyes.