Posted on 03/01/2021 9:45:18 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
The United States of America is a deeply divided society, as basically any observer can tell. It’s an understatement to say that we have essentially no social cohesion left. Decades of pretending that “diversity is our strength” has led to a racially and ethnically divided society made up of Heritage Americans on one side and a whole host of economic parasites and ethnonarcissistic minorities on the other. Added to this is the widening economic divide created by open immigration and economic centralisation of wealth into the hands of an oligarchy of economically unproductive but politically powerful elite factions. Topping it all off is a “woke” political ideology that is capable of accepting the most obviously ridiculous propositions, and which is attempting to force the majority of the country to go along with these, which creates even more society-wide discord. It’s difficult to conceive of anything that could make the situation worse.
So naturally, enter the midwit.
“Midwit” is a term that has been seeing a lot of use on social media in recent months. What exactly is a midwit? It refers to someone who is smart enough, for example, to manage to obtain a college degree but who is not capable of really understanding what they’ve learned or what they’re trying to learn in another discipline. This, however, is coupled with an absolute assurance on their part that what they’ve been told by some progressive authority figure is unquestionably true and “smart” and that it’s “dumb” to challenge it.
As such, the essence of midwittery is not so much based on level of intelligence as it is the willingness to commit oneself to believing oftentimes false propositions based on progressive psychological and/or ideological convenience. In most uses, we’re talking about people on the Left who believe obvious nonsense and who should really know better, but don’t because of ideological blinders that force them to accede to patently false premises. They’re “midwits” because, regardless of actual cognitive ability, they act like people who aren’t smart enough to think beyond the narrative they’re fed. As such, they put tremendous stock in what officially designated “experts” say, even when those experts are obviously wrong.
What makes midwits so dangerous is their willingness to believe propaganda and then enforce the aims of that propaganda upon everybody else, using their unwavering self-assurance as ipso facto moral justification. They’re smart enough to grasp what the propaganda is telling them, but not smart enough to understand or accept the reasons for why the propaganda might be wrong.
This touches on the reason for propaganda and why it is so effective when used by governments. It’s important to understand that propaganda doesn’t need to be convincing to everyone. It merely needs to be convincing to enough people that it creates society-wide pressure on the rest to conform. The purpose of propaganda is to appeal to the great masses of people who can’t or won’t critically examine anything, which will be roughly 70-80% of any given population. Thus, it doesn’t really matter what the few who see through it think. Their voices will just be drowned out in the white noise, and perhaps officially suppressed as well
Propaganda is designed, essentially, to appeal to midwittery. It tells them what is “right” to believe and then justifies their belief in their own superior intelligence for believing what they’ve been told.
Nowhere in recent years has midwittery been more prominent than in the incessant calls to “believe the science” as a prelude to accepting some ideologically progressive program. Left-wing policy makers have discovered the magic formula for getting the modern American to go along with any proposal, no matter how ridiculous or impossible – you call it Science™ and it becomes unquestionably true.
Hence, the millennia-old observation (you know, as in empirically evident) that male and female are basically immutable is rejected as superstition, while appealing to a relative handful of obvious genetic defects and psychological illness to justify mutilating impressionable children is Science. Suggesting that the Sun may be primarily responsible for climate fluctuation is derided as “dangerous,” but ignoring everything actual science knows about complexity and feedback mechanisms to posit a simplistic effect from CO2 is Science. And so on. Actual knowledge is replaced with endogenous progressive hyperreality. The role of the midwit is to tell you to stop believing actual science and to believe Science instead.
As we’ve all seen, the past year has seen an explosion in the growth of the midwit infestation. Indeed, COVID-19 has been like putting rabbit turds on a mushroom patch. You know the karen at the grocery store screeching at you to wear a mask and who double masks while driving alone in her own car? That’s a midwit who doesn’t actually understand how PPE works. Yet you can be sure that she hangs on every word from the obnoxious little goblin DOCTOR Fauci. Every bad policy, every idiotic response to the pandemic that has been destructive, counterproductive, and population reductive has had its midwit cheerleaders willing to shout down anyone who questions the official narratives.
Now, to (ahem) circle back to what I said at the beginning about social cohesion. Practically every policy that has been enacted in response to COVID-19 seems specifically designed to eliminate what little social cohesion is left in Western societies, turning us all into completely atomised consumer units. This is especially the case for modern American society, whose misguided (and historically recent) belief in its basis on “rugged individualism” made its social cohesion more fragile to begin with.
Lockdowns destroy the natural human impulse to congregate and socialise in a civil society. The hamhanded approach by the political and medical establishments to things like vaccine rollouts grossly undermines public trust in institutions that ought to be serving as social glue. The destruction of small businesses and the centralisation of economic activity into the hands of a few megacorporations doesn’t just put people out of work, it removes the foundation of localism that creates genuine bonds of community. Universal masking removes even the very ability of people to interact with each other in a normal way by dealing with each other (literally) face to face.
In short, whatever remaining civil society we might have is being rapidly dynamited by the officially mandated narrative responses to COVID-19. If the current trajectory continues, the ensuing lack of social trust, and the civil strife and disorder that this always engenders, will make the public health crisis caused by the virus look like child’s play.
And you know who bears a huge amount of responsibility for this? The stupid, unthinking, anti-thinking midwits who have been weaponised by the powers that be to take it upon themselves to police everyone else for infractions against the official narrative. As willing tools of the bad faith actors who make policy in government and the board room, they bear much of the fault for this state of affairs. Their willingness to destroy other peoples’ lives, to inform on any dissenters, to cheer on the collapse of civil society all for their own selfish sense of moral superiority mark them out as the very enemies of humanity. And when all is said and done and true normalcy and social stability have finally returned (whenever this may be), these midwits, along with the rest of the progressive cabal, must be punished for their crimes against order, decency, and human society.
Bkmk
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What the heck are “Heritage Americans”?
Um, what do you think they are?
These people know exactly what they are doing.
They want to control and enslave all mankind.
They silence/deplatform/remove anyone who doesn't agree with them.
They don't want people to see or hear anything that challenges their narrative.
They must be confronted, and countered, at every opportunity.
All of us need to wake up before it's too late.
I have no idea. Never heard that term before.
What does it mean?
Basically it refers to pre-1965 Americans who were primarily of European origin and who shared the same basic culture and assumptions as our British-derived founding.
Odd term to describe only part of the pre-1965 American demographic heritage.
Yeah, but it describes the part that actually founded and built the country and from whom the country’s culture, language, laws, mores, and religion derive. Hence, the “heritage” part of “heritage American.”
If ever I am able to narrow down my understanding of our national identity to such an anemic perspective then I may perhaps adopt such terminology.
In the meantime, I still know better.
Well, you’re free to be deluded.
And those to blame are also called democratic voters.
The short answer: Hyphenated Americans. “”African-Americans,’’, ‘’Irish-Americans’’, “Hispanic-Americans’’, etc.
Anyone who identifies themselves as something else first and
an American when(or if) it’s convenient.
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