Some food for thought for those who still chew and think rather than just swallow.
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Excellent post, thank you.
imho nazism lives …. nazism infested everything little by little over time till today and nazism is showing itself to be alive again in countless ways using an overwhelming variety of methods to do the will of evil. evil is nearly all powerful, on this earth, but praise be GOD is more powerful.
Ellul: “An individual can be influenced by forces such as propaganda only when he is cut off from membership in local groups because such groups are organic and have a well-structured material, spiritual and emotional life; they are not easily penetrated by propaganda.”
I don’t know if this holds today. The group that isn’t woke is rare now.
In all of these quotes of this guy he’s taking for granted or implying a constant implacable force engaged in deception. Hmmmm…
An interesting angle to all this is that everyone now has a point of view--a bias, so to speak. And, as Eric Weinstein, physicist, recently pointed out, a strong preconceived bias, whether just a POV or an ideology, makes science impossible. The scientific method requires objectivity and the bombardment of the scientific community and our entire society with ideologies and politics has killed objectivity.
As an aside, even people who say "I can be objective when I choose" are wrong because subconsciously we are powerfully influenced by "confirmation bias." No matter how objective we might want to be, our unconscious minds are going to filter all information we encounter--discarding anything that disagrees with our convictions and biases and keeping only that information that confirms them (our convictions and biases).
And it isn't just science that's dead.
Critical thinking, like science and the scientific method, requires objectivity. Without objectivity, every piece of information we receive either directly supports our biases or is twisted in a way so that it artificially confirms our beliefs.
Unfortunately, all the above creates fertile ground for ideologies like Marxism, which requires a populace incapable of critical thinking.
Yes I agree,there is no border crisis,the rockets and bombs are your imagination,Trump being sued is your imagination,Joe Biden is not a Traitor
Yep
Food for thought for those who still have brains - Orwell and Rand weren’t the only prescient ones
A good book — read it back in the day.