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The West’s War on Critical Thinking
American Thinker ^
| 20 Jun, 2024
| J.B. Shurk
Posted on 06/20/2024 3:44:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
click here to read article
To: MtnClimber
The propaganda has definitely increased in volume and in quantity. That seems to be the way under marxism. The citizens are livestock to be managed and culled by the “wise” farmer who jabs them with shots, shears them for profits and culls those who won’t stay inside the fence.
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posted on
06/20/2024 3:44:55 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
To: MtnClimber
I quit TV watching more than 10 years ago...
Once there were nothing but sex deviates, foul language, promotional memes for the Agenda, etc. in ALL the shows, I didn't see anything left for common sense viewing.
Worse, the phony commercials with the same type of sex promotion, inter-racial white women almost exclusively with black men, NO heterosexual white fathers shown, nearly-extinct white hetero males in commercials, etc., I couldn't stomach the Agenda-driven crap anymore.
There are no Ad Agencies that are ALLOWED to produce non-Agenda advertising, for fear of losing their banking support, being black-balled for non-approved REAL content, etc.
ANYONE who regularly watches TV anymore has already been indoctrinated in the public "school" systems, and/or public "colleges", to join the woke, DEI, CRT, etc. lifestyle and philosophy.
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posted on
06/20/2024 3:56:50 AM PDT
by
traditional2
(lets go B*and*n)
To: MtnClimber
Article is spot on MC.
Arguably if you greatly diminish critical thinking in a population then they will welcome being told what to do, and how to think/not think. Ie, manipulated.
Also this phrase “Religious leaders choose which doctrines of their faiths must be diligently observed and which ones can be casually overlooked” is soooo true, even in the Christian faith.
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posted on
06/20/2024 3:58:30 AM PDT
by
Blueflag
(To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
To: MtnClimber
Very good article. Thanks for posting. FOX news - “We report. You decide.” Reality - We DECIDE what to report so that you can decide. One way programming. No questions allowed. The rest of my response is under a “gag order” and “classified”.
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posted on
06/20/2024 4:07:07 AM PDT
by
PGalt
(Past Peak Civilization?)
To: MtnClimber
People are increasingly aware of the propaganda and increasingly have a negative reaction to it.
I notice that having people of minority races shoved down my throat in ad after ad is really beginning to p!ss me off. I am developing a bad attitude toward the companies whose ads do that.
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posted on
06/20/2024 4:20:47 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(It's funny that the harder I work, the luckier I get.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/20/2024 4:25:36 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
To: Taxman
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posted on
06/20/2024 4:53:17 AM PDT
by
Taxman
((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
To: MtnClimber
The one publication that enabled a well-developed and healthy skepticism in me was the MAD Magazine of the 60's and 70's.
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posted on
06/20/2024 5:10:17 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
To: MtnClimber
Television commercials push us to buy certain products.And to believe that 90% of the population is black, and/or homosexual, and that all white men are bumbling fools.
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posted on
06/20/2024 5:49:17 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
06/20/2024 5:52:19 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
06/20/2024 7:49:08 AM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: MtnClimber
Scary but beautiful analogy there, MtnClimber: Under marxism, We The People are merely livestock to be managed and kept inside the fence around us.
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posted on
06/20/2024 5:24:47 PM PDT
by
poconopundit
(MAGA isn’t a slogan it’s a matter of Americas survival.)
To: equaviator; GOPJ; Liz; rlmorel
Well done. equaviator. Yeah, it's true. A healthy bit of skepticism is healthy for a free people.
I miss Mad magazine.
Of course, while it's not mass media like Mad magazine was, we do have Ben Garrison and his spectacular political GRRRaphics!
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posted on
06/20/2024 6:19:37 PM PDT
by
poconopundit
(MAGA isn’t a slogan it’s a matter of Americas survival.)
To: poconopundit
Hahahaha...”Spy Vs. Spy”!
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posted on
06/20/2024 7:33:01 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
To: poconopundit
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posted on
06/21/2024 3:28:32 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(WOKE DEI hires - an easy way to place hard core commies and sexual weirdos in top corporate spots.s)
To: poconopundit
MAD Magazine was an independent publication and despite claims that it was just another comic for kids, it was mostly adult humor with subject matter for politically astute and mature individuals.
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posted on
06/21/2024 4:00:33 AM PDT
by
equaviator
(If 60 is the new 40, then 35 must be the new 15.)
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